Franco Ambrosetti

Franco Ambrosetti is a grand seigneur of European jazz, his playing style has been described as "cheeky and yet so elegant, so age-wise and yet so youthful, so clear and yet so unbound" (SRF). From the very beginning, trumpeter and flugelhorn player Franco Ambrosetti's sparring partners have been the greats of the scene. Names such as Kenny Clarke, Cannonball Adderley, Dexter Gordon, Phil Woods, Michael Brecker, Steve Coleman, John Scofield, Greg Osby, Geri Allen, Kenny Barron and many more adorn his musical CV. He inherited his love of jazz from his father Flavio Ambrosetti. As a multi-instrumentalist, he was one of the key figures of bebop in Europe at the time and founded the first jazz festival in Lugano. In addition to his enthusiasm for jazz, Ambrosetti was also bequeathed the family business by his father and he mastered the seemingly incompatible: running a company with several locations and a few hundred employees through business life, while at the same time making music on an equal footing with the best in jazz. Franco Ambrosetti has done this for his entire working life and combined both careers with brilliance. He managed the balancing act of also being a manager as a musician. "It's not so easy the other way round, because you can't be a manager and a musician if you don't have the talent," says Ambrosetti.