Eugenio Colombo

Eugenio Colombo ( born 1953 in Rome ) is an Italian jazz saxophonist ( alto and soprano saxophone) and flute.

Eugenio Colombo heard since the 1970s, the Italian avant-garde jazz. After Luca Lerchiari he belongs with Gianluigi Trovesi and Claudio Fasoli to the musicians who seek the deliberate inclusion of motifs that are found in the folk tradition, and thus contribute to the independence of the Italian jazz, like on his early album I Virtuosi di Cave. In the 1970s he worked with Mario Schiano ( listen to the compilation " Sud" ), Giacomo Aula and others. He was a founding member in 1990 of the Italian Unstable Orchestra, on whose first album on Leo Records 1991, he contributed the composition " Ippopotami ". The NEL published on jazz live album of the Orchestra recordings between 1994 and 1997 contains its theatrical -looking composition " scongiuro ". 1990/91 he also appeared with the big-band production by Giorgio Gaslini Masks; In 1993 he was involved in Giorgio Occhipintis album The Kaos Legend, 1994 he was in Germany in the project casting Cologne Nonet with Reiner Winterschladen, Dieter Manderscheid, Ekkehard Jost and Wollie emperor who learned their continuation in 1996 in a similar occupation in the band project Transalpin Express. In 1995, he experimented with the combination of jazz and liturgical chants ( Giuditta ). He also recorded several albums for the label Splasc (h) and Leo in the 1990s.

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As a leader

• Giada ( Splasc (h ), 1990 ) with Bruno Tommaso
• Giuditta: Cantata per tre voci e strumenti tre ( NEL Jazz, 1995) with Eliabetta Scatarzi, Mascia Carrera and Micaela Carosi
• Guida Blu ( Splasc (h ), 1999 )
• Tales of Love and Death ( Records Leo, 2000)

As a sideman

• Pino Minafra: Sudori ( Victo, 1995)
• Giorgio Occhipinti Orchestra: The Kaos Legend ( 2000)