Name Richard Galliano | Years active 1964– Occupation(s) Musician | |
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Born December 12, 1950 (age 73) France ( 1950-12-12 ) Website www.richardgalliano.com/anglais/english.htm Movies Richard Galliano: Tangaria Quartet Awards NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Jazz Album Albums Tangaria Quartet, Piazzolla Forever, From Billie Holiday to Edith Piaf, Love Day: Los Angeles, Gallianissimo! Profiles |
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Richard Galliano (born December 12, 1950, Cannes, Alpes-Maritimes) is a French accordionist.
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- Richard galliano flamb e montalbanaise gus viseur
- Autumn leaves richard galliano tangaria quartet
- Biography
- Honors
- As leader
- As sideman
- References

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Biography

He was drawn to music at an early age, starting with the accordion at 4, influenced by his father Luciano, an accordionist originally from Italy, living in Nice.

After a long and intense period of study (he took up lessons on the trombone, harmony, and counterpoint at the Academy of Music in Nice), at 14, in a search to expand his ideas on the accordion, he began listening to jazz and heard records by the trumpet player Clifford Brown. "I copied all the choruses of Clifford Brown, impressed by his tone and his drive, his way of phrasing over the thunderous playing of Max Roach". Fascinated by this new world, Richard was amazed that the accordion had never been part of this musical adventure.In this period, Galliano won twice the first prize in the "world accordion cap competition" which took place in Spain (1966) and France (1967). In the Spanish competition, the participants' duty work was "Chaconne" by the Israeli accordionist Yehuda Oppenheimer. Galliano and Oppenheimer kept up their musical collaboration and personal friendship until Oppenheimer's death in 2012.

Some later collaborations include Astor Piazolla, George Mraz, Brigitte Fontaine, Al Foster, Juliette Greco, Charles Aznavour, Ron Carter, Chet Baker, Enrico Rava, Martial Solal, Miroslav Vitouš, Trilok Gurtu, Jan Garbarek, Michel Petrucciani, Michel Portal, Eddy Louiss, Biréli Lagrène, Sylvain Luc, Renaud Garcia-Fons, Ivan Paduart, Anouar Brahem, Wynton Marsalis, and Toots Thielemans. He was a key member of Claude Nougaro's band for several years as a pianist and accordionist.
Honors

As leader

Compilations
As sideman
With Ivan Paduart
With Anouar Brahem
With Mango
With Matthieu Michel
With Astor Piazzolla
With Eddy Louiss
With Søren Siegumfeldt's String Swing
With Michel Portal
With Mike del Ferro
With Jan Lundgren and Paolo Fresu
With Christian Howes