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Nino Frasio

Born: April 26, 1950

Banjo, guitar and tuba player.
He was graduated in 1976 from the Universitá degli Studi of Milano and he has worked for more than twenty years with several companies as AFC manager.
His first steps in music were taken in 1964 as a guitarist and banjoist.
He studied with professor Enea Vallesi, one of the more requested orchestra and studio musicians in Milano active from the early '30s throughout the '50s, and followed the Beatles craze - as virtually all the teenage players did then - playing lead guitar and trying to sing in a somewhat understandable English.
The latter was the worse performance of the two.
In 1969 he joined the Italian cast of Up With People! and played many shows on lead guitar and tenor banjo.
He quit in 1971, when he started his 'day job' career, and since then has dedicated himself exclusively to Classic Jazz.
Deepening his studies on banjo, he discovered the 'other' four string tuning and soon was able to double on tenor and plectrum banjo.
RAI, the national Italian TV network, invited him to the broadcast "Musica Insieme" dedicated to the various musical instruments to show the role of the banjo in Classic Jazz.
He founded in 1972 the Olympia Ragtime Band, a pure New Orleans styled band in which he played banjo.
In the early '80s he left the Olympia Ragtime Band to start a busy musical career as a free-lance performer with the many jazz bands active in Northern Italy.
In late 1973 he was enlisted in the Italian Air Force and, during the duty, began the study of cornet and tuba.
When he was discharged in 1975 his day job asked him firmly to choose between the two due to the lack of time ..