Named by Wynton Marsalis as one of the top five jazz musicians under 30 to watch, pianist Chris Pattishall will lead an octet in this debut night dedicated to the writings of Argentinian author Jorge Luis Borges and the rich history of tango.

Borges, a monumental magical realist and master of the short story, described the tango, the lifeblood of Argentine culture, as invoking “an apocryphal past, simultaneously stoic and orgiastic, in which I have challenged and fought, in the end to fall silently in an obscure knife-fight.”

Pattishall's compositions will draw on classic tango such as Angel Villoldo's “El Choclo,” the symphonic tone poems of Rimsky-Korsakov and Richard Strauss, and the works of Astor Piazzolla, weaving a network of inspiration, reference and imagination. Join the Catskill Jazz Factory for this musical tribute to Borges' fictions within the romance, flair, and mythical violence of tango.