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Roberto Colombo, a keyboard player (music) arranger and record producer, is known for his numerous collaborations with leading Italian songwriter: from PFM to Fabrizio De André. He has produced among others albums of Alberto Camirini, Garbo, le Orme, i Matia Bazar, Miguel Bosè, as well as the solo records of Antonella Ruggiero. He composed TV theme/signature tunes (raistereonotte, beautiful ù and studio aperto) publicity jingles and film soundtrack (tandem) he conduct TV orchestras (a tribute to Fabrizio De André, a tribute to Dominico Modugno, a tribute to the Beatles) Colombo has made three solo records: “Sfogatevi bestie” (1976), “Botte da...

He’s Swiss and he’s magical. In the European and United States blues and rock scene, Joe Colombo’s slide technique and his special custom electric resonator guitar set a style that is his alone. Shifting from the sonorities of electric rock-blues to the acoustic sensivity of Delta-blues, Joe – who was born and grew up in Italian speaking Locarno – builds a sound at once precise as a fine watch and full of intuitive openings. Joe Colombo began playing guitar when he was twelve, listening to Jimi Hendrix, Stevie Ray Vaughan and Johnny Winter. His slide technique draws on Elmore James,...

Based in Rome, L'Uovo di Colombo was another of those bands that just made an album without their record company support, so the band disappeared soon after the album release. Enzo Volpini and Ruggero Stefani had previously played together in I Fholks with future members of Reale Accademia di Musica, while Elio Volpini had been a member of Flea (on the Honey). L'Uovo di Colombo is a great album, with the very good voice of Toni Gionta (his real surname was Tartarini and he was later the singer with Cherry Five) backed by a keyboard/bass/drums trio in perfect Le Orme...