Flavio Ambrosetti

The daddy of trumpeter Franco Ambrosetti, multi-instrumentalist Flavio Ambrosetti, was a high saxophonist for the Western european scene in the ’50s and ’60s, and is among the great legends from the Swiss jazz scene, specifically the Italian part of the tri-cultural nation. The elder Ambrosetti started his research in his hometown of Lugano, functioning both privately with an area music studio room, and you start with piano. (He handed this routine along to his boy, who started his music research a similar method some three years afterwards.) Flavio Ambrosetti shortly added vibraphone as well as the saxophone family members to his instrumental abilities. In the past due ’30s, Ambrosetti noticed tenor saxophone large Coleman Hawkins executing in Switzerland, a concert that was an enormous impact on his musical advancement. He started gigging numerous Swiss jazz groupings, and in the past due ’40s performed in Paris for the very first time in the band of Hazy Osterwald. Ambrosetti’s number 1 impact was Charlie Parker, an impression that he trapped to what sort of contents of the Swiss “rosti” dish stick to the bottom from the cooking food pan. Tom Lord’s Jazz Discography lists him as taking part in some 45 saving sessions between your ’40s as well as the past due ’70s. By the first ’60s, his boy had joined up with a combo that also included pianist George Gruntz and drummer Daniel Humair. In 1967, this group was asked to perform on the renowned Monterey Jazz Celebration. The four players shaped an all-star big music group in 1972, getting started using the name the Music group which evolved in to the George Gruntz Concert Jazz Music group, possibly because way too many viewers members had been shouting out demands for “THE NIGHT TIME They Drove Aged Dixie Down.” The Enja recording Wedding anniversary, released in 1996, will be the obvious place to begin with this designer, since it features him employed in the influenced organization of such best jazz performers as tenor saxophonists Gato Barbieri and Sal Nistico, drummer Louis Hayes, and bassist Sam Jones. Many vinyl releases from the Gruntz rings around the MPS are the Ambrosettis, both dad and son, doing his thing alongside trumpeters Woody Shaw and expatriate Benny Bailey, multi-instrumentalist reedman Charlie Mariano, and many more.