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Ernesto Baffa
12+ albums
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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 tables of the venue El Patio de la Morocha, Pichuco suggested that he would join him. «My dream’s come true!» –says he- and he’s happy as when, still with short trousers, he climbed the fence of the “Club Flores Que Surgen” in Floresta, his hometown, to hear and see his admired bandoneon player. Even today, as soon as he opens the door to his heart Troilo appears. But all this not only Ernesto tells us but he plays it. During the largest part of the talking the one that talks is the bandoneon. «This beast (referring to the instrument) is very difficult and you can’t stop practicing» –he asserts-, and he even presents his wife as a witness that he practices daily. Like he used to do with maestro Francisco Sesta whose fingering methods he is still using as well as the exercices that Marcos Madrigal taught him. Thereafter he displayed his virtuosity by playing Franz Schubert’s “Ave Maria”. A break for coffee an
