Eraldo Volonté (February 5, 1918 – October 23, 2003) was an Italian

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saxophonist and bandleader. Volonté initially played as a violinist before picking up tenor sax in the mid-1930s. He worked as a sideman in a variety of groups, under Enzo Ceraglioni,

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, Bruno Martelli, and

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among others. In 1948 he began working with Gil Cuppini, an association that would last into the 1970s. In the 1950s he played in Glauco Masetti's sextet and with

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; in the 1960s, he would continue to work with Umiliani as well as with

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toward the end of the decade. Later associations included work with Giorgio Azzolini and Giorgio Buratti.

References

*"Eraldo Volonté". '' The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz''. 2nd edition, ed.

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