Dino Saluzzi
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Salta Province
Salta is a province of Argentina, located in the northwest of the country. Neighboring provinces are from the east clockwise Formosa, Chaco, Santiago del Estero, Tucumán and Catamarca. It also surrounds Jujuy...
) is an Argentine
Argentina
Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...
musician
Musician
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The son of popular carpero composer and instrumentalist Cayetano Saluzzi, Dino played the bandoneón
Bandoneón
The bandoneón is a type of concertina particularly popular in Argentina and Uruguay. It plays an essential role in the orquesta típica, the tango orchestra...
since his childhood. Other than his father, he was influenced by Salta musicians such as Cuchi Leguizamón, and by the lyrical strain of the tango
Tango music
Tango is a style of ballroom dance music in 2/4 or 4/4 time that originated among European immigrant populations of Argentina and Uruguay . It is traditionally played by a sextet, known as the orquesta típica, which includes two violins, piano, double bass, and two bandoneons...
of Francisco de Caro and Agustin Bardi. Dino described the vividness of his musical sketches as "an imaginary return" to the little towns and villages of his childhood.
For much of his youth, Saluzzi lived in Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires is the capital and largest city of Argentina, and the second-largest metropolitan area in South America, after São Paulo. It is located on the western shore of the estuary of the Río de la Plata, on the southeastern coast of the South American continent...
, playing with the Radio El Mundo orchestra. He would play in orchestras for a living, while touring with smaller, sometimes jazz-oriented ensambles, developing a personal style that made him a leading bandoneonist in Argentine folklore and avant-garde music (especially since Ástor Piazzolla
Ástor Piazzolla
Ástor Pantaleón Piazzolla was an Argentine tango composer and bandoneón player. His oeuvre revolutionized the traditional tango into a new style termed nuevo tango, incorporating elements from jazz and classical music...
did not participate in projects other than his own). His record career doesn't start until the 70s, along with Gato Barbieri
Gato Barbieri
Leandro Barbieri , better known as Gato Barbieri , is an Argentinean jazz tenor saxophonist and composer who rose to fame during the free jazz movement in the 1960s and from his latin jazz recordings in the 1970s.-Biography:Born to a family of musicians, Barbieri began playing music...
, when he signed a couple of crazy lyricism albums under the name of Gaucho. Over this decade, he worked on many tours in South America and specially in Japan, but always associated to other names, as Mariano Mores
Mariano Mores
Mariano Martínez, better known as Mariano Mores , is a famous Argentine tango composer, pianist and conductor.-Biography:...
or Enrique Mario Franchini.
Through word-of mouth publicity (mostly from expatriate musicians) he was invited to several Europe
Europe
Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...
an music festivals, and landed a contract with the ECM
ECM (record label)
ECM is a record label founded in Munich, Germany, in 1969 by Manfred Eicher. While ECM is best known for jazz music, the label has released a wide variety of recordings, and ECM's artists often refuse to acknowledge boundaries between genres...
label. Several records have resulted, including Kultrum, a 1998 free-experimental effort with the Rosamunde Quartett
Rosamunde Quartett
The Rosamunde Quartett is a German string quartet ensemble formed in 1992. It is named after Franz Schubert's String Quartet No.13 D.804 and the incidental music Rosamunde on which the slow movement of this piece is based. Its members consist of Andreas Reiner , Diane Pascal , Helmut Nicolai ,...
. From the beginning of the 1980s onwards, there were collaborations with European and American jazz musicians including Charlie Haden
Charlie Haden
Charles Edward Haden is an American jazz musician. He is a double bassist, probably best known for his long association with saxophonist Ornette Coleman...
, Tomasz Stanko
Tomasz Stanko
Tomasz Stańko is a Polish trumpeter, composer and improviser. Often recording for ECM, Stańko is strongly associated with free jazz and the avant-garde....
, Charlie Mariano
Charlie Mariano
Carmine Ugo Mariano was an American jazz alto saxophonist. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts and died in Cologne, Germany.-Biography:Mariano was the son of Italian immigrants....
, Palle Danielsson
Palle Danielsson
Palle Danielsson is a Swedish jazz double bassist born in Stockholm, Sweden, perhaps most notable for his work done with Keith Jarrett from 1974 to 1979, becoming a member of his European quartet for that period.-Career:...
, and Al Di Meola
Al Di Meola
Al Di Meola is an acclaimed American jazz fusion and Latin guitarist, composer, and record producer of Italian origin. With a musical career that has spanned more than three decades, he has become respected as one of the most influential guitarists in jazz to date...
.
ECM brought Saluzzi together with Charlie Haden, Palle Mikkelborg
Palle Mikkelborg
Palle Mikkelborg , is a Danish jazz trumpeter, composer, arranger and record producer. He started playing professionally in 1960, and has since been a dominant figure on the Danish and international progressive jazz scene...
and Pierre Favre for Once Upon A Time ... Far Away In The South, and subsequently with Enrico Rava
Enrico Rava
Enrico Rava , is a prolific jazz trumpeter and arguably one of the best known Italian jazz musicians. He originally played trombone, changing to the trumpet after hearing Miles Davis. His first commercial work was as a member of Gato Barbieri's Italian quintet in the mid-1960s; in the late 1960s...
for Volver. Rava had worked extensively in Argentina, and Haden's sympathy for Latin American music was well-known; furthermore Palle Mikkelborg and Dino Saluzzi had worked together productively in George Gruntz
George Gruntz
George Gruntz is a Swiss jazz pianist, organist, harpsichordist, keyboardist and composer most noteworthy for his work with artists such as Phil Woods, Roland Kirk, Don Cherry, Chet Baker, Art Farmer, Dexter Gordon, Johnny Griffin and Mel Lewis.From 1972 to 1994 he served as artistic director for...
's band: there was a common ground on which an artistic exchange of ideas could take place. Saluzzi later played with 'Haden's Liberation Music Orchestra', and the 'Rava Saluzzi Quintet' also toured.
In 1991, Saluzzi recorded an album with his brothers Felix and Celso and his son José María on guitar
Guitar
The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
, kicking off his "family project", which has since toured many countries. Mojotoro drew upon the full range of South American musics: tango, folk, candina music, candombe, the milonga music of the la Pampa province...
Anja Lechner and Dino have toured widely as a duo, too and US jazz magazine "Down Beat" declares the album that recorded together, Ojos Negros album of the year (best of 2007 list).
Dino Saluzzi symphonic works were presented with Anja Lechner and Metropole Orkest at Muziekgebouw, Amsterdam in February, 2009. Soloist: Dino Saluzzi - bandoneon; Guest: Anja Lechner - cello; Conductor: Jules Buckley.
As leader
- KultrumKultrumKultrum is a solo album by Argentine musician Dino Saluzzi recorded in 1982 and released on the ECM label.-Reception:The Allmusic review awarded by Michael G...
(ECM, 1982) - Once Upon a Time - Far Away in the SouthOnce Upon a Time - Far Away in the SouthOnce Upon a Time - Far Away in the South is an album by Argentine bandoneón player and composer Dino Saluzzi recorded in 1985 and released on the ECM label.-Reception:The Allmusic review awarded the album 2 stars....
(ECM, 1985) - VolverVolver (album)Volver is an album by the Enrico Rava/Dino Saluzzi Quinter recorded in 1987 and released on the ECM label.-Reception:The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album 3 stars stating "Rava's introverted yet inwardly passionate playing matches well with Saluzzi's modern tangos, and the results...
with Enrico RavaEnrico RavaEnrico Rava , is a prolific jazz trumpeter and arguably one of the best known Italian jazz musicians. He originally played trombone, changing to the trumpet after hearing Miles Davis. His first commercial work was as a member of Gato Barbieri's Italian quintet in the mid-1960s; in the late 1960s...
(ECM, 1986) - AndinaAndina (album)Andina is a solo album by Argentine bandoneón player and composer Dino Saluzzi recorded in 1988 and released on the ECM label.-Reception:The Allmusic review awarded the album 3 stars.-Track listing:# "Dance " - 8:11# "Winter" - 5:57...
(ECM, 1988) - MojotoroMojotoroMojotoro is an album by Argentine musician Dino Saluzzi recorded in 1991 and released on the ECM label.-Reception:The Allmusic review by Ron Wynn awarded the album 3 stars stating "The music mixes tango with elements of Bolivian and Uruguayan music...
(ECM, 1991) - Cité de la Musique (ECM, 1996)
- Kultrum: Music for Bandoneon and String Quartet with the Rosamunde Quartett (ECM, 1998)
- ResponsoriumResponsorium (album)Responsorium is an album by Argentine musician Dino Saluzzi recorded in 2001 and released on the ECM label.-Reception:The Allmusic review awarded by Scott Yanow awarded the album 4 stars stating "The mood is sometimes wistful and nostalgic, but it is not derivative of the past. A delightful set"...
(ECM, 2001) - SenderosSenderos (album)Senderos is an album by Argentine musician Dino Saluzzi with percussionist Jon Christensen recorded in 2002 and released on the ECM label.-Reception:...
(ECM, 2002) - Juan CondoriJuan CondoriJuan Condori is an album by Argentine musician Dino Saluzzi recorded in 2005 and released on the ECM label.-Reception:The Allmusic review awarded by Thom Jurek awarded the album 4 stars stating "Juan Condori is one of those recordings where jazz, folk music, and improvisation all wind themselves...
(ECM, 2005) - Ojos NegrosOjos Negros (Dino Saluzzi album)Ojos Negros is an album by Argentine bandoneon player and composer Dino Saluzzi with cellist Anja Lechner recorded in 2006 and released on the ECM label.-Reception:...
with Anja Lechner (ECM, 2006) - El EncuentroEl Encuentro (Dino Saluzzi album)El Encuentro is a live album by Argentine bandoneon player and composer Dino Saluzzi with cellist Anja Lechner and The Metropole Orchestra recorded in 2009 and released on the ECM label.-Reception:...
(ECM, 2009) - Navidad de Los AndesNavidad de Los AndesNavidad de Los Andes is an album by Argentine bandoneon player and composer Dino Saluzzi with cellist Anja Lechner and saxophonist Felix Saluzzi recorded in 2010 and released on the ECM label.-Reception:...
(ECM, 2011)
As sideman
With Al Di MeolaAl Di Meola
Al Di Meola is an acclaimed American jazz fusion and Latin guitarist, composer, and record producer of Italian origin. With a musical career that has spanned more than three decades, he has become respected as one of the most influential guitarists in jazz to date...
- Di Meola Plays Piazzolla (Atlantic, 1996)
With George Gruntz
George Gruntz
George Gruntz is a Swiss jazz pianist, organist, harpsichordist, keyboardist and composer most noteworthy for his work with artists such as Phil Woods, Roland Kirk, Don Cherry, Chet Baker, Art Farmer, Dexter Gordon, Johnny Griffin and Mel Lewis.From 1972 to 1994 he served as artistic director for...
- TheatreTheatre (album)Theatre is an album by Swiss pianist, composer, and arranger George Gruntz's Concert Jazz Band '83 recorded in 1983 and released on the ECM label.-Reception:...
(ECM, 1983)
With Maria João
Maria João
Maria João is a Portuguese jazz singer.She is known for her vocal flexibility and improvisational skills. While normally considered a jazz singer, her music incorporates a mix of folk/ethnic music, modern jazz, and the avant-garde...
- Fábula
With Rickie Lee Jones
Rickie Lee Jones
Rickie Lee Jones is an American vocalist, musician, songwriter, and producer. Over the course of a three-decade career, Jones has recorded in various musical styles including rock, R&B, blues, pop, soul, and jazz standards.-Childhood:...
- Pop Pop (Warner Bros., 1991)
With Tomasz Stańko
Tomasz Stanko
Tomasz Stańko is a Polish trumpeter, composer and improviser. Often recording for ECM, Stańko is strongly associated with free jazz and the avant-garde....
- From the Green HillFrom the Green HillFrom the Green Hill is an album by Polish jazz trumpeter and composer Tomasz Stańko recorded in 1998 and released on the ECM label.-Reception:...
(ECM, 1998)