Timoteo "Dino" Saluzzi was born on 20 May 1935 and is an Argentinian bandoneon player.
11 Facts About Dino Saluzzi
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Dino Saluzzi is the son of Cayetano Saluzzi and the father of guitarist Jose Maria Saluzzi.
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Timoteo "Dino" Saluzzi was born in Campo Santo, Salta Province, Argentina.
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For much of his youth, Saluzzi lived in Buenos Aires.
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Dino Saluzzi described the vividness of his musical sketches as "an imaginary return" to the little towns and villages of his childhood.
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Dino Saluzzi played in orchestras professionally while touring with smaller, sometimes jazz-oriented ensembles, developing a personal style that made him a leading bandoneonist in Argentine folklore and avant-garde music.
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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's band: there was a common ground on which an artistic exchange of ideas could take place.
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Dino Saluzzi later played with Haden's Liberation Music Orchestra, and the Rava Dino Saluzzi Quintet toured.
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In 1991, Dino Saluzzi recorded an album with his brothers Felix and Celso and his son Jose Maria on guitar, kicking off his "family project", which has since toured many countries.
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Anja Lechner and Dino Saluzzi have toured widely as a duo, and US jazz magazine DownBeat declared their album Ojos Negros the Album of the Year.
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In 2015, Dino Saluzzi won the Diamond Konex Award, one of the most prestigious awards given in Argentina, as the most important musician of the last decade in the country.