Adrián Iaies (born November 4, 1960) is an Argentine pianist and composer who has been nominated for the

Latin Grammy The Latin Grammy Awards are an award by The Latin Recording Academy to recognize outstanding achievement in the Latin music industry. The Latin Grammy honors works recorded in Spanish or Portuguese from anywhere around the world that has been ...

awards three times. His main style is

jazz Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues and ragtime. Since the 1920s Jazz Age, it has been recognized as a m ...

but he combines that with

soul In many religious and philosophical traditions, there is a belief that a soul is "the immaterial aspect or essence of a human being". Etymology The Modern English noun '' soul'' is derived from Old English ''sāwol, sāwel''. The earliest atte ...

tango Tango is a partner dance and social dance that originated in the 1880s along the Río de la Plata, the natural border between Argentina and Uruguay. The tango was born in the impoverished port areas of these countries as the result of a combina ...

, and other styles. Iaies became involved in

fusion in the mid-1980s. His 1999 album ''Las Tardecitas de Minton's'' ("Evenings at Minton's"), received a nomination for a

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Official Site
Argentine composers Argentine jazz pianists Musicians from Buenos Aires 1960 births Living people Place of birth missing (living people) 20th-century Argentine male artists 21st-century Argentine male artists 20th-century composers 21st-century composers 21st-century pianists {{Jazz-pianist-stub