Timoteo "Dino" Saluzzi (born 20 May 1935) is an Argentinian

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player. He is the son of Cayetano Saluzzi and the father of guitarist José Maria Saluzzi.

Early life, family and education

Timoteo "Dino" Saluzzi was born in Campo Santo, Salta Province,

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. He began playing the bandoneon as a child. His father Cayetano Saluzzi was influential in his involvement with music. For much of his youth, Saluzzi lived in

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Career

Dino has been playing the bandoneon since his childhood. Other than his father, he was influenced by

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musicians such as Cuchi Leguizamón, and by the lyrical strain of the

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of Francisco de Caro and Agustín Bardi. Dino described the vividness of his musical sketches as "an imaginary return" to the little towns and villages of his childhood. As a youth in Buenos Aires, Dino played with the Radio El Mundo orchestra. He played in orchestras professionally while also touring with smaller, sometimes

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-oriented ensembles, developing a personal style that made him a leading bandoneonist in Argentine folklore and avant-garde music (especially since

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did not participate in projects other than his own). His record career did not start until the 1970s, along with

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, when he released a couple of 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, such as

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or Enrique Mario Franchini. Through word-of-mouth publicity (mostly from expatriate musicians), Saluzzi was invited to several European music festivals. He landed a contract with the ECM label. Several records have resulted, including ''Kultrum'', 1983. From the beginning of the 1980s onwards, there were collaborations with European and American jazz musicians including

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, and Al Di Meola. ECM brought Saluzzi together with Charlie Haden,

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and Pierre Favre for ''Once Upon a Time ... Far Away in the South'', and subsequently with

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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

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'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

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, kicking off his "family project", which has since toured many countries. ''Mojotoro'' drew upon the full range of South American music: tango, folk, cantina music,

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, and the milonga music of La Pampa Province.

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and Saluzzi have toured widely as a duo, and US jazz magazine '' DownBeat'' declared their album ''Ojos Negros'' the Album of the Year (Best of 2007 list). In 2015, Saluzzi won the Diamond

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, one of the most prestigious awards given in Argentina, as the most important musician of the last decade in the country. Saluzzi symphonic works were presented with Anja Lechner and Metropole Orkest at Muziekgebouw, Amsterdam, in February 2009.

Discography

As leader

*1972: ''De Vuelta a Salta'' (

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) *1973: ''Bandoneón Tierra Adentro – Vol. 1'' (RCA Camden) *1975: ''Bandoneón Tierra Adentro – Vol. 2'' ( RCA Victor) *1977: ''Dedicatoria'' (Melopea) *1980: ''Bermejo'' (Microfón) *1982: '' Kultrum'' ( ECM) *1985: '' Once Upon a Time – Far Away in the South'' (ECM) *1986: ''

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'' with

(ECM) *1988: '' Andina'' (ECM) *1991: ''Argentina'' (West Wind Latina) *1996: ''

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'' (ECM) *1998: ''Kultrum'' with the Rosamunde Quartett (ECM) *2001: '' Responsorium'' (ECM) *2002: '' Senderos'' (ECM) *2006: '' Ojos Negros'' (ECM), with Anja Lechner *2009: '' El Encuentro'' (ECM) *2011: '' Navidad de Los Andes'' (ECM), with trio including Anja Lechner and Felix Saluzzi *2020: '' Albores'' (ECM) ;Los Chalchaleros Con El Bandoneón De Dino Saluzzi *1972: ''La Cerrillana'' (RCA Victor) ;Dino Saluzzi Group *1991: '' Mojotoro'' (ECM) *2005: ''

Juan Condori ''Juan Condori'' is an album by the Dino Saluzzi Group, recorded in October 2005 and released on ECM Records, ECM the following year.

'' (ECM) *2014: '' El Valle de la Infancia'' (ECM) ;Trio with Anthony Cox and David Friedman *1995: ''Rios'' (veraBra) ;Trio with

and Thierry Lang *2005: ''Trio Tage'' (PJL)

As sideman

;With Pedro Orillas *1970: ''Soy Buenos Aires'' (RCA Camden) ;With

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*1981: ''Tres Noches en la Trastienda'' (Melopea), trio including Bernardo Baraj ;With

*1983: ''

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'' (ECM) ;With Al Di Meola *1990: '' World Sinfonia'' (

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) *1993: '' World Sinfonia II – Heart of the Immigrants'' (

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) *1996: '' Di Meola Plays Piazzolla'' (Atlantic) ;With

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*1991: ''

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'' (Warner Bros.) ;With Maria João *1996: ''Fábula'' ;With

*1998'' From the Green Hill'' (ECM) ;With

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in quartet including

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and Andrei Pushkarev *2010: ''Themes from the Songbook'' (ECM)

References

External links

Official website of Dino and José María SaluzziDino Saluzzi
at Myspace
Dino Saluzzi Interview
at argentour.com

at European Jazz Network (archived)
Dino Saluzzi ECM recordings
at music-wire.com {{DEFAULTSORT:Saluzzi, Dino 1935 births Living people Argentine bandoneonists Argentine classical bandoneonists Argentine musicians Avant-garde jazz musicians People from Salta Province Tango musicians ECM Records artists