Nunzio Rotondo

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Nunzio Rotondo (born December 11, 1924 in Palestrina , † September 15, 2009 in Rome ) was an Italian jazz trumpeter who has also emerged as a composer and radio presenter.

Live and act

Rotondo, who comes from a musical family, received piano lessons from the age of six; at the age of nine he switched to the trumpet. After the war he attended the Conservatory in Rome. In 1949 Rotondo founded the Hot Club Rome Sextet with Carlo Lofredo, Carlo Pes and other musicians as a band that was stylistically committed to swing . In the same year he accompanied Louis Armstrong with this sextet . Soon, however, he developed his playing style further in the direction of bebop and thus became the Italian pioneer of this new style. In this function he appeared at the Salon du Jazz in Paris in 1952 and was also known to an international audience. In the late 1950s he played on a European tour with Lionel Hampton's orchestra . In 1958 he was honored as the best jazz musician in Italy at the jazz festival in Rome.

At the beginning of the 1960s Rotondo withdrew from the concert business and worked almost exclusively as a studio musician with his own quartet at the RAI . He presented the corresponding recordings in humorous announcements together with modern American jazz classics in his radio show Appuntamento con Nunzio Rotondo , which enjoyed cult status in Italian jazz circles. He also appeared in 1965 with Albert Mangelsdorff , Martial Solal and Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen and a large orchestra.

In the early 1970s he returned to the live scene with a new quintet, including the saxophonist Enzo Scoppa, the pianist Franco D'Andrea , the bassist Bruno Tommaso or Dodo Goya and the drummer Bruno Biriaco In later years, however, he returned entirely to studio work.

literature

  • Il Radiocorriere
  • Arrigo Zoli, Storia del jazz moderno italiano , Azi edizioni, 1983
  • Adriano Mazzoletti, Il jazz in Italia , editore EDT , Torino, 2004
  • Pierluigi Piji Siciliani, La canzone jazzata , editore Zona, 2007
  • Franco Mondini, Sulla strada con Chet Baker e tutti gli altri. Cronache degli Anni '50 e '60 , edizioni Lindau , 2004

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personal data
SURNAME Rotondo, Nunzio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian jazz musician (trumpet, composition)
DATE OF BIRTH December 11, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Palestrina
DATE OF DEATH September 15, 2009
Place of death Rome