Umberto Arlati

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Umberto "Umbi" Arlati (born June 22, 1931 in Olten ; † May 4, 2015 there ) was a Swiss jazz trumpeter and music teacher .

Live and act

Arlati's father led a well-known dance and entertainment orchestra in Olten and arranged for his son Umberto to take saxophone lessons at the age of eleven ; a year later he appeared publicly. Shortly afterwards he switched to the trumpet and at the age of 14 became a member of his father's orchestra. The jazz musicians Gus Meyer and Paul Thommen taught him the basics of jazz.

At the beginning of the 1950s he was already playing with the best musicians in the region, including the Rhythm Kings and in the Francis Notz Octet with George Gruntz (1952). At some point he gave up the profession of bricklayer and tiler because he was earning his living as a musician. In 1951, 1952 and 1954 he was honored as the best trumpeter at the Zurich Jazz Festival . In the second half of the 1950s he played several times at the jazz festival in Düsseldorf with Waldi Heidepriem's Modern Jazz Group Freiburg . In 1959 he recorded there with Klaus Doldinger and Peter Baumeister . In the 1960s he played with musicians like Heinz Bigler and Vince Benedetti .

In 1967 he became a teacher at the Swiss Jazz School in Bern , and later at the Olten Music School. In 1985 he founded his own big band in Olten ; he also ran his own combo. Most recently he was heard in the quartet of Bruno Spoerri . He was featured at the Olten Jazz Days 2001 and 2006. In 2010 he was awarded the Art Prize of the Canton of Solothurn for his life's work .

"Miles Davis von Olten" died in his home in Olten.

Discographic notes

  • Modern Jazz Group Freiburg (Christopherus 1962)
  • Mani Planzer : Jiver's License (ML Records, 1971)
  • Basel Jazz All Stars (Megaphone, 1980 with Bruno Spoerri, Andy Scherrer , George Gruntz, Isla Eckinger , Peter Schmidlin )
  • Take Off Big Band: Preview (Zytglogge, 1981) /
  • Jazz Art Sextet: Don't Look Back (CHJ, 1992, with Vince Benedetti, Mathias Baumann, Andreas Erchinger, Peter Frei , Matthias Kuert)

Lexigraphic entries

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

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Olten jazz trumpeter Umberto Arlati deceased , May 9, 2015, Tages-Anzeiger
  2. ↑ a b Umberto Arlati was Miles Davis from Olten , Beat Blaser on SRF May 12, 2015, accessed May 15, 2015
  3. ↑ Jazztage Olten 2006 (PDF; 389 kB)
  4. ↑ Arlati deceased: His sound continues , Solothurnerzeitung May 9, 2015, accessed May 15, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Arlati, Umberto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Arlati, Umbi (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss jazz musician and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH June 22, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Olten
DATE OF DEATH May 4, 2015
Place of death Olten