Pino Rucher
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| Background information | |
| Born |
January 1, 1924 Manfredonia, Italy |
| Died | August 16, 1996 (aged 72) San Giovanni Rotondo, Italy |
| Genres | Jazz |
| Occupation(s) | Guitarist, arranger |
| Instruments | Guitar |
| Years active | 1946-1983 |
| Website | www |
Pino Rucher (1924 – 1996) was an Italian guitarist active in orchestral settings and in film soundtracks.
Rucher started playing the guitar at an early age, when his father came back from the United States in 1933 and presented him with a guitar. His parents decided that he should take private music lessons. After a few years’ study, he started playing in public in his hometown and even in such important cities as Naples and Bari, where he was able to obtain records, guitar scores and other musical material which was not easy to find elsewhere.
The presence of American troops in the province of Foggia (and particularly in the area of Manfredonia, Rucher’s hometown), between 1943 and 1946, represented a fundamental step for Pino Rucher’s musical career. Rucher joined several Allied Army’s orchestras, some members of which were talented musicians, thanks to whom he came into contact with American musical atmosphere and jazz.
In 1946 he entered the Carlo Vitale orchestra after coming first in a competition for the position of guitarist at Radio Bari (several candidates from everywhere in Italy participated in that competition).
After the dissolution of the Vitale orchestra, which had become famous thanks to Radio Bari (a broadcasting station that played a relevant role in the post-war years), Pino Rucher went to work for Radio Milano as a member of the Carlo Zeme orchestra. In the Fifties and the early Sixties he also had the opportunity to work with two forerunners of Italian swing (borrowed from American style), Pippo Barzizza and Cinico Angelini.
Cinico Angelini selected Pino Rucher as a permanent member of his new orchestra, with which Rucher worked for about ten years participating in a great number of events and distinguishing himself for his remarkable exhibitions and solos. Some of these events are the First International Song Festival in Venice in 1955 and several San Remo Music Festivals, among which the 1957 Festival, where Claudio Villa came first with Corde della mia chitarra.
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