Eraldo Volonte

Eraldo Volonté was an Italian jazz tenor saxophonist and bandleader, born in Milan. He began on violin and switched to the tenor saxophone in the mid-1930s. He belonged to the so-called second generation of Italian jazz and is known for a long partnership with drummer Gil Cuppini, which began in 1948 and lasted into the 1970s. Volonté worked as a sideman with Enzo Ceraglioni, Kramer Gorni, Bruno Martelli and Aldo Rossi. In the 1950s he played in Glauco Masetti's sextet and with Piero Umiliani, and in the late 1960s with Giorgio Gaslini.