Charly Antolini


Charly Antolini is a Swiss jazz drummer.
WWW charly-antolini.de

Career

Born in Zürich, Antolini started playing the traditional Swiss Basler drum. In 1956, he went to Paris, where he played with Sidney Bechet and Bill Coleman. He joined the Tremble Kids with trumpeter Oscar Klein and clarinettist Werner Keller. In 1962 he lived in Stuttgart, Germany, where he spent five years playing with bassist Peter Witte and pianist Horst Jankowski in the SWR Big Band led by Erwin Lehn. With Witte, between 1965 and 1967, he recorded five albums for the Romanian pianist Eugen Cicero, who combined classical music with jazz. He also played in big bands with Kurt Edelhagen, Peter Herbolzheimer, and Max Greger in the NDR Bigband.
In 1976 he formed Charly Antolini's Jazz Power with Steve Hooks, Andrei Lobanov, David Gazarov. and Rocky Knauer. Later members were Len Skeat and Brian Lemon. In the 1980s he toured Germany, Italy, and Denmark with Benny Goodman, as well as with Lionel Hampton, Barbara Dennerlein, Albert Mangelsdorff, Earl Hines, Roy Eldridge, Jimmy Giuffre, Art Farmer, Oliver Nelson, Art Van Damme, Stuff Smith, and Baden Powell. In the late 1980s-early 1990s he recorded four albums with British tenor saxophonist Dick Morrissey, three of which were live, and in 1994 he started the Super Trio with pianist Dirk Raufeisen and bassist Jimmy Woode.

Discography

As leader

Drum Beat Soul Beat In the Groove Atomic Drums Jazz Power/Live Knock Out Special Delivery Countdown Crash Menue Bop Dance Finale Caravan Wow!!! A Swinging Affair Live On Tour! with Barbara Dennerlein Cookin Recorded at the BBC Studio London Charly Antolini Meets Dick Morrissey On the Beat Chicago Dixieland Swiss Made Swing Explosion with Gerry Hayes Right On! Knock Out 2000 Swing Kings Love to Play! Live in Concert The Jubilee 2006 Mixing Stuff Good Time Together
  • ''Groove Merchant''

As sideman

With Eugen CiceroRokoko Jazz In Town Swinging Tschaikowsky Cicero's Chopin Romantic Swing Balkan Rhapsody Klavierspielereien Swinging Classics Highlights Presenting Eugen Cicero Classics in Rhythm
With Horst JankowskiTraumklang und Rhythmus mit Horst Jankowski Horst Jankowski Quartet/Horst Jankowski with Bernie's Swing Five Piano Interlude
With Art Van DammeArt van Damme The Gentle Art of Art Ecstasy Art in the Black Forest Lullaby in Rhythm Art and Four Brothers On the Road The Many Moods of Art Invitation With Strings
With others