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The instruments - the violin, the bandoneon - evoke nostalgia, sadness, opportunities lost and/or found.

There is something about tango that is very emotional. “Salsa is action music, whereas in the tango you have space for reflection. “I felt that the instrumentation and the atmosphere that tango creates would make the lyrics more relevant and stronger,” Blades said in a recent interview. On the new album, he performs “Pedro Navaja” with veteran Argentine bandoneonist Leopoldo Federico’s orchestra as a milonga, a slightly faster tango style, a far cry from the original version on his 1978 “Siembra” album with Willie Colon, with blaring police sirens and horns and a throbbing salsa beat. At Thursday night’s Latin Grammys, Blades will be performing the “Tangos” version of his biggest hit, “Pedro Navaja,” inspired by “Mack the Knife,” his socially conscious song about the life and death of a murderous street hustler.