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Oscar Alemán, one of the finest jazz guitarists of the 1930s, is a difficult player to evaluate because he sounded like a near-exact duplicate of <a href="spotify:artist:5Z1XZyEFY0dewG8faEIiEx">Django Reinhardt</a>. Since <a href="spotify:artist:5Z1XZyEFY0dewG8faEIiEx">Django</a> was a year younger, some have speculated that he developed his style from Alemán, although the opposite is just as likely. Alemán began playing guitar as a teenager in Argentina and in the late '20s, he moved to Europe, Spain at first. By 1931, he was living in Paris and during 1933-1935, he was a regular member of <a href="spotify:artist:2bPM7UBUWPtlRyIh5d0MlC">Freddy Taylor's Swing Men From Harlem</a>. Alemán appeared on records with trumpeter <a href="spotify:artist:0ywVlWLmExvuNb8Sf4as7w">Bill Coleman</a> and clarinetist <a href="spotify:artist:79ogoGlrKKkmtG0yZGm90h">Danny Polo</a> and was the leader on eight selections from 1938-1939. He moved back to Argentina in 1941 and, although he recorded as late as 1974, few outside of his native country have ever heard of him. Strangely enough, Oscar Alemán does not seem to have ever visited the United States and none of his many recordings of swing tunes in his post-Europe years (except for a few titles put out by the collectors TOM label) have ever been released domestically. ~ Scott Yanow, Rovi
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