Franco Ambrosetti
Franco Ambrosetti (born December 10, 1941 in Lugano , Switzerland) is a Swiss industrialist and jazz musician ( trumpeter and flugelhorn player ). Because of his voluminous yet fiery trumpet playing, he is , according to Martin Kunzler , an internationally renowned hardbop soloist .
Live and act
Ambrosetti grew up as the son of the tenor saxophonist and manufacturer Flavio Ambrosetti . He received classical piano training from 1952 to 1959 and then learned to play the trumpet and later also the flugelhorn. In 1961 he made his debut as a professional musician, mainly in the jazz clubs of Milan . He has led his own band in Zurich since the mid-1960s and also studied economics in Basel .
In 1964 he made recordings with George Gruntz and with Gato Barbieri under the direction of Giorgio Azzolini , in 1965 with the Flavio Ambrosetti All Stars with George Gruntz and Daniel Humair and in Milan with the Franco D'Andrea quartet . In 1966 he received first prize at the International Jazz Competition in Vienna organized by Friedrich Gulda .
In 1967 he made his US debut with his father's band, of which he was a member until 1970, at the Monterey Jazz Festival . In 1972 he founded the group The Band with his father, George Gruntz and Daniel Humair , with which he performed regularly and which later became The George Gruntz Concert Jazz Band .
Since the 1970s he has worked with musicians such as Phil Woods , Dexter Gordon , Cannonball Adderley , Joe Henderson , Michael Brecker , Mike Stern , Hal Galper and Kenny Clarke ; as a band leader he worked 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 Faraò and Dado Moroni . Since 1999 his son Gianluca Ambrosetti has been involved in his bands more often .
Ambrosetti paid tribute to the Third Stream with his Music for Symphony & Jazz Band . He also composed film scores, including for Markus Imhoof's Die Reise .
In addition, Ambrosetti had his own jazz show on Ticino Radio RSI for more than thirty years . From 1973 to 2000 he headed the family company Ambrosetti Technologies full-time . He sold it in order to devote himself entirely to music from now on. He was also President of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Canton of Ticino and worked as a consultant for many years . In 2018 he was awarded the Swiss Jazz Award .
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 Hanover, 1990
- Live at the Blue Note with Kenny Barron, Seamus Blake , Ira Coleman , Victor Lewis, 1992
- Light Breeze with John Abercrombie , Billy Drummond , Antonio Faraò, Miroslav Vitouš , 1998
- Grazie Italia , with Enrico Rava , Gianluca Ambrosetti, Dado Moroni, etc. a. 2001
- European Legacy , with Gianluca Ambrosetti, Dado Moroni, François Moutin , Daniel Humair; Enja 2003
- Liquid Gardens , with Gianluca Ambrosetti, Dado Moroni, Michael Zisman, Sébastien Boisseau , Daniel Humair; Enja 2006
- The Wind with the trio of pianist Uri Caine , 2008
- Cycladic Moods , with Gianluca Ambrosetti, Abraham Burton , Geri Allen, Heiri Känzig , Nasheet Waits ; Enja 2012
After the Rain , with Greg Osby, Gianluca Ambrosetti, Dado Mononi, Buster Williams, Terri Lyne Carrington ; Enja 2015
- Long Waves , with John Scofield , Uri Caine , Scott Colley , Jack DeJohnette ; Unit Records , 2019
Filmography
- 1986: The journey
- 1995: Offside trap (Terra bruciata)
- 2006: Riviera Cocktail
Lexical entries
- Wolf Kampmann (Ed.), With the assistance of Ekkehard Jost : Reclams Jazzlexikon . Reclam, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-15-010528-5 .
- Martin Kunzler : Jazz Lexicon. Volume 1: A – L (= rororo-Sachbuch. Vol. 16512). 2nd Edition. Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 2004, ISBN 3-499-16512-0 .
Web links
- Franco Ambrosetti's website
- Literature by and about Franco Ambrosetti in the catalog of the German National Library
- Franco Ambrosetti at Discogs (English)
- Franco Ambrosetti in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Franco Ambrosetti (Italian) on ricercamusica.ch/dizionario/ (accessed on: October 26, 2017)
- Franco Ambrosetti (Italian) at ti.ch/can/oltreconfiniti (accessed September 30, 2016)
- Franco Ambrosetti Official Site on francoambrosetti.com (accessed September 30, 2016)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Entry in contemporary history online
- ↑ Deutschlandradio Kultur from December 10th, 2011: “Double career” The Swiss jazz trumpeter Franco Ambrosetti turns 70
- ↑ Enja entry ( Memento from November 15, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Ambrosetti, Franco |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss industrialist and jazz musician (trumpeter and flugelhorn player) |
DATE OF BIRTH | December 10, 1941 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Lugano , Switzerland |