2021 marks the centenary of Astor Piazzollas birth. 8222;The worlds foremost composer of Tango music, as he is rightly called, was born in Mar Del Plata in Argentina on March 11, 1921. Growing up as a migrant on Manhattans Lower East Side, he studied the bandoneon and immersed himself in the jazz and classical music the city offered. At the age of sixteen he returned to Argentina, performed with tango orchestras in Buenos Aires and eventually saved anough money to take composition lessons from Ginastera. In the 1950s he studied in Paris where Nadia Boulanger encouraged him to focus on his unique bandoneon-centred compositions. He developed the 8222;Tango Nuevo, infusing traditional tango with jazz and classical elements, which made him a highly controversial figure in his homeland, while winning him acclaim in the USA and Europe. This exclusive 10 CD box-set collects all of is early original recordings, starting in the early 1940s when Piazzolla was playing with Anibal Troylo. It also includes his famous recordings with Francisco Florentinos orchestar from 1946, as well as his own Orchestra Tipica. In the 1950s Piazzolla created an Octeto and the Orchestra de Cuerdas, while in the 1960s he was mainly performing and recording with his Quinteto, as documented here on the first six original albums under his own name.