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Tangos the orchestra recorded that its leader also composed.
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Who was in the band, and when. Each era joins to the recordings tagged to it, so lineups the corpus can't name are added over time.
Era and lineup research by Todo Tango. Endless gratitude to them for documenting who played in each orchestra, and for sharing it so generously. Go explore their wonderful work.
The Orquesta Típica Brunswick was a studio-only label orchestra: it never appeared in public and existed only on record, staffed by the cream of Brunswick's other groups. Pedro Maffia led the very first sides in mid-1929, but his many engagements soon forced the series to pause.
The pianist Juan Polito took the orchestra over in 1930 and led it steadily until the label closed in late 1932, over forty discs devoted mostly to tango. The refrain singers, drawn from the label's other orchestras, were Antonio Rodríguez Lesende, Carlos Viván, Teófilo Ibáñez and Luis Díaz, the most recorded of them.