Angelo Giacomazzi

Italian jazz pianist, composer, arranger, and conductor, born in Genoa (1907), died in Milan (1977). Giacomazzi wrote arrangements for several Italian pop artists, including Sergio Bruni, with whom he won the 1966 Naples Festival, conducting Bruni’s entry ‘Bella’. Giacomazzi participated as a conductor in three editions of the Sanremo Festival (1967, 1968, 1969). In 1966, he was Domenico Modugno's musical director at the Eurovision Song Contest in Luxembourg.