Overview
- Argentine media reported his death on Friday at age 80 due to emphysema/COPD, with his son Daniel “Pipi” Piazzolla posting a public farewell.
- In 1976–77 he performed synthesizers and percussion in Astor Piazzolla’s Octeto Electrónico and took on central organizational duties for the group.
- He later advanced the repertoire through the album Piazzolla por Piazzolla and the 1996 Astortango tribute in Buenos Aires featuring Chick Corea and Gary Burton.
- He contributed to the 2018 documentary Piazzolla, los años del tiburón, and was working on an autobiographical memoir at the time of his death.
- Father and son were estranged for about twelve years after the Octeto era but reconciled before Astor’s 1992 death; Daniel had lived in Villa La Angostura since 2010 and was the father of Escalandrum leader Pipi Piazzolla.