Richard Galliano....

Richard Galliano was born the 12 of December 1950 in Le Cannet, France. As its father he very started young to touch accordion, but he was with trombone that he initiated the musical studies of composition in the academy of Nice. He was in this period, years 60, that he got passionate himself for the jazz, influenced for of Miles Davis in the phase of Cool-Jazz, foca in this musical sort. As he would come to discover, he is not easy to be itself musician of jazz in the Europe, over all for a acordeonista, what he took it Paris in the year of 1973, where would finish as conducting, composer and arranjista of the orchestra of Claude´s Nogaro. But the bichino continued there, during the three years that the orchestra lead, never forgot the jazz, and whenever it can was involved in projectos touching with musicians as Chet Baker, Joe Zawinul, Toots thielmans, Ron Carter, Michel Petrucciani or Jan Gabareck.
But something was for happening that it would go to change its musical options, the contact with Astor Piazzola made Gallianio to believe that it would have to be focar in the European musical inheritance, desusada or declining considered music then, but certainly with beauty enough to be worked and acarinhada. E is what it has come to make in last the 15 years, creating a new chain, based in folk European, that many call New Musette.
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