Dino Betti van der Noot

Dino Betti van der Noot (* 18 September 1936 in Rapallo ) is an Italian Jazz - Pianist , Big Band -Leader, arranger and composer.

Live and act

Betti's mother and a cousin were classical pianists; from 1946 to 1951 he had lessons at the music school in Pavia and in 1959 private lessons in Milan . In the 1970s he studied at Berklee College of Music . At the end of the 1950s he was leading his own formations in Italy; but he was active outside the music scene in the 1960s. From 1969 to 1978 he led an amateur big band, with which he also recorded an album ( Basement Big Band , 1978). From 1982 he worked with a professional big band a. a. with Franco Ambrosetti , Paul Bley , Bill Evans , David Friedman , Danny Gottlieb , Donald Harrison , Carmen Lundy , Paul Motian , Giancarlo Schiaffini , Steve Swallow and Gianluigi Trovesi . Since the 1980s Betti has been head of the Milan advertising agency B Communications full-time, for whom he also composed numerous jingles . In 1987 he worked with his own big band in New York. Since 1985 he has recorded a number of albums with his own formations, for which he also wrote the compositions and arrangements, for the Innowo and Soul Note labels .

Prizes and awards

He received the Musica Jazz Polillo Award for his album They Cannot Know . The album Space Blossoms won the critics' poll of Musica e Dischi in 1989 . Here Comes Springtime was the third best album of 1986 according to USA Today .

Discographic notes

• Here Comes Springtime (Soul Note, 1985) with Gianluigi Trovesi, Franco Ambrosetti, Donald Harrison, Daniel Humair
• They Cannot Know (Soul Note, 1987) with Giancarlo Schiaffini
• Space Blossoms (Innowo, 1988) with Rudy Brass, Giancarlo Schiaffini, Donald Harrison, Gianluigi Trovesi, Hugo Heredia, Sandro Cerino, Paul Bley, Vittorio Cosma, Steve Swallow, Paul Motian, Luis Agudo, Jonathan Scully, Roberta Gambarini
• Ithaca / Ithaki (Soul Note, 2003) with Giancarlo Schiaffini
• The Humming Cloud (SAM, 2006)

swell

• Bielefeld catalog 1988 & 2002
• Richard Cook , Brian Morton : The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings . 8th edition. Penguin, London 2006, ISBN 0-14-102327-9 .
• Leonard Feather , Ira Gitler : The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz. Oxford University Press, New York 1999, ISBN 0-19-532000-X .

Web links

• Brief portrait on jazzitalia.net