Gil Cuppini

Gilberto "Gil" Cuppini (* 6 June 1924 in Milan ; † 19th June 1996 ) was an Italian jazz - drummer and bandleader .

Live and act

Cuppini took piano lessons and studied medicine, began playing drums in 1946 and played as a drummer in Italian swing bands in the 1940s; In 1948 he became a member of Hazy Osterwald's band. He accompanied Armando Trovajoli and Gorni Kramer at Paris jazz festivals . During the 1950s he played with Nunzio Rotondo and in a sextet directed by Gianni Basso and Oscar Valdambrini , and played at the Sanremo Jazz Festival ; he also directed his own ensembles, for which he composed and arranged.

In 1958 he visited the United States with the International Youth Band of Marshall Brown , after he worked with Lee Konitz and performed with Teddy Wilson and Arvell Shaw on in Brussels. Cuppini appeared in a series of concerts on the Italian radio station RAI in the early 1960s and recorded albums with Joe Venuti in the early 1970s . Cuppini later played in a rhythm section with Franco D'Andrea and Giorgio Azzolini who accompanied various American and European musicians on their tours.

On one of his few albums under his own name like What's New? played in the Gil Cuppini Quintet Dusko Goykovich , Barney Wilen , George Gruntz and Karl Theodor Geier . In 1967 he recorded the album "A New Day" in a big band line-up, which was released in 1980 on Red Records .

literature

• Carlo Bohländer , Karl Heinz Holler, Christian Pfarr: Reclam's Jazz Guide . 5th, revised and supplemented edition. Reclam, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-15-010464-5 (EA Stuttgart 1977).

Web links

• Ron Wynn, All Music Guide

Individual evidence

1. ^ Ricordo di Gil Cuppini. (No longer available online.) March 18, 2007, archived from the original on July 13, 2010 ; Retrieved January 9, 2012 (Italian). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.