Ambrosetti honored with Swiss Jazz Award
Franco Ambrosetti receives the new Swiss Jazz Award presented by a jury of experts in 2018. The 76-year-old trumpeter and flugelhorn player from Ticino has written European jazz history.
An economics graduate and self-taught musician, Ambrosetti began performing professionally at the age of twenty in jazz clubs in Milan and at the Africana in Zurich. In 1966, he won first place at the International Jazz Prize in Vienna and played with the top league of international jazz throughout his career. These included Dexter Gordon, Cannonball Adderley and Joe Henderson as well as Swiss colleagues Daniel Humair and George Gruntz and jazz greats from Italy such as Dado Moroni.
Franco Ambrosetti's musical work is reflected in his extensive discography. Composing has always played a major role and also includes music for film. For more than 30 years, Ambrosetti produced his own jazz program on the Ticino radio station RSI.
The Swiss Jazz Award was originally launched in 2007 by Radio Swiss Jazz together with JazzAscona as an audience award to promote the Swiss jazz scene. In 2017 and 2018, the expert jury presented the Swiss Jazz Award directly. It is made up of Beat Blaser (music editor of Radio SRF 2 Kultur/Jazz), Rebecca Bretscher (Festival da Jazz, St. Moritz), Andrea Engi (President of the Jazz Club Chur and Swissjazzorama). Moritz), Andrea Engi (President Jazz Club Chur and Swissjazzorama), Nicolas Gilliet (Director JazzAscona), Pepe Lienhard (bandleader, saxophonist and arranger), Sai Nobel (Music Editor Radio Swiss Jazz) and Mirko Vaiz (Project Manager Music, Migros Culture Percentage, Federation of Migros Cooperatives).
