Franco Ambrosetti

Franco Ambrosetti ( born December 10, 1941 in Lugano, Switzerland ) is a Swiss industrialist and jazz musician ( trumpet and flugelhorn player ). Because of his voluminous and yet fiery trumpet playing, he is after Martin Kunzler as internationally acclaimed soloist of the hard bop.

Life

Ambrosetti grew up as the son of the tenor saxophonist and manufacturers Flavio Ambrosetti. He received 1952-1959 classical piano lessons and then learned the trumpet and later the flugelhorn game. In 1961 he debuted as a professional musician, especially in the jazz clubs of Milan. He conducted since the mid-1960s his own band in Zurich and studied Economics in Basel next.

In 1964, he played recordings with George Gruntz and Gato Barbieri with on under the direction of Giorgio Azzolini, 1965 Flavio Ambrosetti the All Stars with George Gruntz and Daniel Humair and in Milan with the quartet of Franco D'Andrea. In 1966 he was awarded first prize in the organized by Friedrich Gulda International Jazz Competition in Vienna.

In 1967, he debuted in the U.S. with his father's band, where he remained until 1970, at the Monterey Jazz Festival. In 1972 he founded with his father, George Gruntz and Daniel Humair the group The Band, with which he appeared regularly and which later became The George Gruntz Concert Jazz Band was.

Since the 1970s, he worked with such musicians as Phil Woods, Dexter Gordon, Cannonball Adderley, Joe Henderson, Michael Brecker, Mike Stern, Hal Galper and Kenny Clarke, worked as a bandleader with Michael Brecker, Kenny Kirkland, John Scofield, Ron Carter, Bennie Wallace, Phil Woods, Dave Holland, Kenny Barron, Victor Lewis and Seamus Blake and led a quartet with Alfredo Golino, Antonio Farao and Dado Moroni.

With his Music for Symphony & Jazz Band Ambrosetti paid tribute to the Third Stream tribute. He also composed film scores, including Markus Imhoof the trip.

In addition Ambrosetti has its own jazz program at the Ticino Radio RSI for thirty years. Full-time, he headed from 1973 to 2000, the family Ambrosetti Technologies. He sold it to devote himself entirely to music. He was also for many years president of the Commercial and Industrial Chamber of the Canton of Ticino and worked as a consultant.

Discography

  • Close Encounter 1978
  • Sleeping Gypsy with Eddie Daniels, Joe Beck, George Gruntz, Barry Miles, 1979
  • Heartbop, 1981
  • Wings with Michael Brecker, John Clark, Daniel Humair, Kenny Kirkland, Buster Williams, 1983
  • Gin & Pentatonic with Michael Brecker, Alex Brofsky, John Clark, Steve Coleman, Tommy Flanagan, Dave Holland, Daniel Humair, Howard Johnson, Kenny Kirkland, Michael Mossman, Lew Soloff, Buster Williams, 1985
  • Tentets with Michael Brecker, Alex Brofsky, Steve Coleman, Tommy Flanagan, Dave Holland, Daniel Humair, Howard Johnson, Michael Mossman, Lew Soloff, 1985
  • Movies with Geri Allen, Michael Formanek, Jerry Gonzalez, Daniel Humair, John Scofield, 1986
  • Movies Too with Geri Allen, Michael Formanek, Daniel Humair, Greg Osby, John Scofield, 1988
  • Music for Symphony & Jazz Band with Alfredo Golino, Simon Nabatov, Greg Osby, Daniel Schnyder, Ed Schuller, Vladislav Sendecki and the NDR Symphony Orchestra Hannover, 1990
  • Light Breeze with John Abercrombie, Billy Drummond, Antonio Faraò, Miroslav Vitouš, 1998
  • Grazie Italia, 2001
  • European Legacy, 2003
  • Liquid Gardens, 2006
  • Sunday Walk
  • The Wind with the trio of pianist Uri Caine, 2008

Lexical entries

  • Wolf Kampmann Reclams Jazz Encyclopedia Stuttgart 2003
  • Martin Kunzler Jazz Encyclopedia Vol 1 Reinbek 2002
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