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Flavio Ambrosetti
Flavio Ambrosetti is credited on 45 releases across 18 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1958–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
45
Pressings credited
18
Albums
8
Decades active
2
In collections
Biography
Flavio Ambrosetti (October 8, 1919 in Lugano – August 21, 2012 in Ticino) was a Swiss jazz vibraphonist, saxophonist, and engineer. Ambrosetti's primary career was in engineering; his acclaim in jazz circles has come entirely from his activities as an occasional musician. He studied piano as a child and taught himself to play tenor and alto saxophone as a teenager. He attended engineering school in Zürich and played with Rio de Gregori during World War II; later in the decade he worked with Gil Cuppini and Hazy Osterwald. In the 1950s he played as a sideman and with his own ensemble, which included Raymond Court and George Gruntz. In the 1960s he led a quintet which included his son, Franco Ambrosetti, as well as George Gruntz and Daniel Humair, which toured and was featured on television and radio broadcasts. He expanded this ensemble to a big band in 1972, touring in Europe and playing with Dexter Gordon and Phil Woods. Gruntz became the leader of this group in 1978.
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Credited work
45 releases · 18 albums · active 1958–2025
- Performance · 105
- Other credits · 35
Studios: Ambrosetti Mansion Gentilino, Lugano · Schauspielhaus Zürich · Tonstudio Bauer · Lugano-Casino-Kursaal
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Frequent collaborators
- Various
- The Band (7)
- Franco Ambrosetti
- Trumpetmachine
- Franco Cerri And His European Jazz Stars
- Franco Cerri
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