Eraldo Volonté, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Italian saxophonist
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Place of Birth: Milan, Lombardy, Italy
About Eraldo Volonté
- Eraldo Volonté (February 5, 1918, Milan - October 23, 2003, Milan) was an Italian jazz 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, Kramer Gorni, Bruno Martelli, and Aldo Rossi 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 Piero Umiliani; in the 1960s, he would continue to work with Umiliani as well as with Giorgio Gaslini toward the end of the decade.
- Later associations included work with Giorgio Azzolini and Giorgio Buratti.
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