Gene Bertoncini

Gene Bertoncini (born April 6, 1937 in the Bronx , New York City ) is an American jazz guitarist (acoustic guitar) and composer .

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Bertoncini played guitar from the age of nine and has an architecture degree from the University of Notre Dame . He was a member of the band on the "Tonight Show" by Johnny Carson , in the TV bands of Merv Griffin and Skitch Henderson , and worked a lot as a studio musician. He played u. a. with Benny Goodman , Buddy Rich (in his band in the 1960s), Wayne Shorter , Hubert Laws , Clark Terry , Mike Mainieri , Paul Desmond , accompanied Tony Bennett , Lena Horne , Vic Damone , Nancy Wilson and Eydie Gormé and was himself with a concert already accompanied by the orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera .

Bertoncini also appeared as a soloist and for many years played in a duo with bassist Michael Moore , with whom he performed every Sunday at the Zinno in Greenwich Village from 1982 to 1989 before Moore moved to India. Bertoncini plays an acoustic guitar (with nylon strings) and rarely uses an amplifier. In addition to jazz standards and classical adaptations, he improvises a lot on South American compositions, especially by Antônio Carlos Jobim . He has released several CDs, including a. a trio album with Bill Charlap and Sean Smith and the solo albums Someone to Light Up My Life, Acoustic Romance, Quiet Now and the duo album East Meets West with Kenny Poole . Bertoncini teaches at the Eastman School of Music and at William Patterson University . From 1990 to 2008 he played regularly on Mondays and Thursdays at New York's La Madeleine (on 43rd Street). In 2008 he joined a. with Bucky Pizzarelli in a duo. In 2003 he was on tour in Germany with guitarists Mundell Lowe and John Pisano .

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• Leonard Feather , Ira Gitler : The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz. Oxford University Press, New York 1999, ISBN 0-19-532000-X .

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