Rio de Gregori

Rio de Gregori (September 22, 1919, Zurich - May 22, 1987, Munich) was a Swiss jazz pianist.[1]

de Gregori first started to play the piano at the age of 7. His parents had aspirations that he would become a classical pianist, but he performed professionally as a jazz musician. He worked with of Willy Mac Allen (1939-1940), James Boucher (1940-1941), Jo Grandjean (1942)[2] and René Weiss (until 1944).[3] During the war he played with Fred Böhler until 1945 when he founded a big band of his own which included Flavio Ambrosetti[4] and Stuff Combe.[5]

When his band broke up, he still worked as both a trio and soloist and he managed a bar in Ascona, Switzerland. He settled, later, in Munich and opened a night club there, Bar Ascona, and called himself Rio Gregory.

References
  1. Lotz, Rainer E. (1997). Black People: Entertainers of African Descent in Europe and Germany. Dr Rainer Lotz. ISBN 9783980346184.
  2. Lotz, Rainer E. (2003). De Gregori, Rio. Oxford Music Online. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.j117200.
  3. "RIO GREGORY – HIS PIANO AND HIS RHYTHM, International Piano Medley, 1955". Berlin Beatet Bestes. 2013-07-27. Retrieved 2018-09-20.
  4. "Radio Swiss Jazz - Music database - Musician". Retrieved 2018-09-20.
  5. "RIO GREGORY – HIS PIANO AND HIS RHYTHM, International Piano Medley, 1955". Berlin Beatet Bestes. 2013-07-27. Retrieved 2018-09-20.
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