ArtistInfo

Charly Antolini

dr, *1937 CH, Zürich
Musician of Jazz

Charly Antolini (born 24 May 1937) is a Swiss jazz drummer.Born in Zürich, Antolini started playing the traditional Swiss Basler drum and in 1956 went to Paris where he played with Sidney Bechet, Bill Coleman among others, and playing in the Oldtime Jazz Band "The Tremble Kids" with trumpeter Oscar Klein and clarinettist Werner Keller. In 1962 he went to live in Stuttgart, Germany, where he spent five years playing with bassist Peter Witte and pianist Horst Jankowski in the SWR Bigband led by Erwin Lehn. With bassist Peter Witte, between 1965 and 1967, he recorded five albums for the Romanian pianist Eugen Cicero, a new talent who translated classical music into jazz (Lizt, Chopin, Tschaikowsky). He also played in big bands with Kurt Edelhagen, Peter Herbolzheimer and Max Greger in the NDR

Instruments

• Drums
• Percussion
• Backing Vocals

Genres

• Jazz
• Pop
• R&B/Soul
• Soundtrack
• Latin

Plays With