Dino Saluzzi

Timoteo "Dino" Saluzzi ( born May 20, 1935 in Campo Santo ( Ingenio San Isidro ), Salta Province, Argentina) is an Argentine bandoneon player and composer. Martin Kunzler according to which he is the "vital improviser of Tango Nuevo. " He rhythmically upgraded him to open when Tango Libre - interoperable with many varieties of improvised music made ​​and a unique form of ethno-jazz - so the programmatic title of one of his compositions created.

Life and work

Saluzzi was in the family lessons on the bandoneon. While studying in Buenos Aires, he was a member of the Symphony Orchestra Estable, who played for the radio station Radio El Mundo. At this time he also met already Astor Piazzolla. In 1956 he went back to Salta to compositionally to develop them further. The early 1970s, he participated in recordings of Gato Barbieri, in which free jazz and Argentine music were interconnected. With Mariano Mores he went to other Latin American countries on tour. As a soloist and arranger, he worked for a touring production Sinfonia de Tango, with which he had heard in Japan in 1977. In 1979 he founded his own Cuarteto Dino Saluzzi, whose performances in Europe, such as Berlin Jazz Festival, with great enthusiasm were taken. He is co-founder of the experimental ensemble " Música Creativa ", the aufführte jazz, folk and chamber music. In 1982 he became a member of " George Gruntz Concert Jazz Band ". With its recorded in the same year solo album Kultrum he made ​​the breakthrough in Europe.

He played in various combinations with Charlie Mariano concerts in Germany and took with Wolfgang Dauner and that several records on (for example, One Night in '88, Live in Concert ). In addition, he has worked with numerous musicians from Europe and the USA, such as Louis Sclavis, Enrico Rava, Tomasz Stanko, Don Pullen, Al DiMeola, David Friedman, Erika Stucky, Maria João, Palle Danielsson, Renaud Garcia- Fons, Charlie Haden, Jon Christensen and Edward Vesala.

Discography (selection)

Lexigraphic entries

  • Wolf Kampmann Reclams Jazz Encyclopedia Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-15-010528-5
  • Martin Kunzler, Jazz Encyclopedia Vol 2 Reinbek 2002 ISBN 3-499-16513-9
David Friedman (percussionist) Integrated Authority File
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