Pianist, bandleader, composer and arranger (21 March 1935) Full name: Ernesto Guillermo Baffa "Pichuco’s talkin’, kid!… I’m at the Marabú, come here ‘cause you’re gonna join my orchestra." «I hurried up right away, -Ernesto recalls- and ten days later I was playing with Aníbal Troilo». That phone call he got at the house of his mother, doña Rosario, back in 1959, still gives him a thrill. Once El Gordo had mistaken him for Leopoldo Federico when Baffa played in the Horacio Salgán’s aggregation, precisely replacing Leopoldo. After the misunderstanding, at one of the t… read more
Pianist, bandleader, composer and arranger (21 March 1935) Full name: Ernesto Guillermo Baffa "Pichuco’s talkin’, kid!… I’m at the Marabú, come here ‘cause you’re gonna join my orchestra." «I hurried up right away, -Ernesto recalls- and ten days later I was playing with Aníbal… read more
Pianist, bandleader, composer and arranger (21 March 1935) Full name: Ernesto Guillermo Baffa "Pichuco’s talkin’, kid!… I’m at the Marabú, come here ‘cause you’re gonna join my orchestra." «I hurried up right away, -Ernesto recalls- and ten days later I was playing with Aníbal Troilo». That phone call he got at the house of his mother, doña Rosari… read more