Today's tango calls to mind stylish tuxedos, sleek evening gowns, and elite Argentinian nightclubs and ballrooms-but its actual origins were far different. Like American jazz, tango was born in barrooms and brothels, where poor immigrants from Africa and Europe forged a new dance genre from a collision of cultures. This compilation captures the finest works of tango's most legendary performers from the 1940s through the present on a single CD.