Renato Anselmi (musician)

Renato Vittorio Anselmi (born August 23, 1941 in Zurich ) is a Swiss jazz musician (piano, keyboards, arrangement, composition).

Anselmi began taking piano lessons from Margrit Rederer and at the Zurich Conservatory from the age of seven . In 1958 he took part in the Zurich amateur jazz festival ; Between 1959 and 1962 he was a member of Remo Rau's quartet , with whom he also appeared in Cafe Africana and at festivals. Since 1966 he has worked as a professional musician, arranger and composer. He performed with his ensemble at the Zurich Jazz Festival in 1967 and 1968. From 1969 to 1970 he was a member of Pepe Lienhard's sextet . He then formed the jazz rock band "Paecock" (with Fernando Vicencio), from which he developed the Peacock Party Band , which still exists today ; he also accompanied Bill Ramsey . In the next few years he performed with the groups "Revenge" (with Kurt Weil ), "Emphasis" (with Pierre Cavalli), "Flute Circle" (with Fernando Vicencio) and "Isolierband" (with Bruno Spoerri ). He also accompanied Eddie Daniels (1983) and Harvey Mason , Kirk Whalum and Alphonso Johnson (1986) and was a member of the Jazz Quartet of the Swiss Radio DRS . Anselmi also wrote for the film ( Die Magd (1976), Lisi and the General (1986)) and produced relaxation music.

Discographic notes

• Emphasis (Pick, 1975)
• Renato Anselmi: To his friends (1976, with Lennart Axelsson , Andy Scherrer , Thomas Moeckel and others)
• Renato Anselmi: Know What I Mean? (Polydor, 1981, with Fernando Fantini , Max Lässer et al.)
• DRS Jazz Quartet (DRS, 1986)
• It Had to Be You (DRS, 1988)

Lexigraphic entries

• Bruno Spoerri (Hrsg.): Biographical Lexicon of Swiss Jazz CD supplement to: Spoerri, Bruno (Hrsg.): Jazz in Switzerland. History and stories . Chronos-Verlag, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-0340-0739-6

Web links

• Peacock Party Band ( Memento from March 3, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
• Renato Anselmi in the Internet Movie Database (English)