Eugenio Colombo

Eugenio Colombo (born December 10, 1953 in Rome ) is an Italian jazz saxophonist (alto and soprano saxophone) and flutist.

Eugenio Colombo has been part of the Italian jazz avant-garde since the 1970s. After Luca Lerchiari, he is one of those musicians with Gianluigi Trovesi and Claudio Fasoli who are looking for the conscious inclusion of motifs that can be found in folk tradition and thus make a contribution to the independence of Italian jazz, as on his early album I Virtuosi di Cave . In the 1970s he worked with Mario Schiano (heard on his compilation " Sud "), Giacomo Aula and others. In 1990 he was a founding member of the Italian Unabile Orchestra , on whose first album on Leo Records in 1991 he contributed the composition " Ippopotami ". The orchestra's live album, released on NEL Jazz , with recordings between 1994 and 1997, contains his seemingly theatrical composition “ Scongiuro ”. In 1990/91 he also took part in the big band production Masks by Giorgio Gaslini ; In 1993 he was involved in Giorgio Occhipinti's album The Kaos Legend , in 1994 he worked in Germany on the Gießen Köln Nonett project with Reiner Winterschladen , Dieter Manderscheid , Ekkehard Jost and Wollie Kaiser , which was continued in 1996 with a similar line-up in the band project Transalpin Express . In 1995 he experimented with combining jazz and liturgical chants ( Giuditta ). He also recorded several albums for the Splasc (h) and Leo labels in the 1990s .

Discographic notes

As a leader

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

As a sideman

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

literature

• Richard Cook , Brian Morton : The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD . 6th edition. Penguin, London 2002, ISBN 0-14-051521-6 .
• Bielefeld Jazz Catalog, 2001
• Luca Lerchiari: Jazz in Italy . In: That's Jazz (exhibition catalog), Darmstadt, 1988