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Dino Betti van der Noot

Born: September 18, 1936

Dino Betti van der Noot (born 1936) is an Italian jazz composer.

Van der Noot was born in Rapallo. His mother and cousin were classical pianists. He studied at Scuola Musicale of Pavia, 1946–51; in 1959 studied privately in Milan and in the 1970s at Berklee College of Music In Italy, he led combos from 1957–1960, but was not active in music in the 1960s. He led an amateur big band from 1969–1972 and a professional big band in 1982 and in 1987 in New York City. He is chairman of B Communications, an advertising agency in Milan.

In his bands, he worked with Andrea Dulbecco, Ares Tavolazzi, Bill Evans, Bob Cunningham, Danny Gottlieb, David Friedman, Donald Harrison, Hugo Heredia, Famoudou Don Moye, Franco Ambrosetti, Giancarlo Schiaffini, Gianluigi Trovesi, John Taylor, Jonathan Scully, Joyce Yuille, Luis Agudo, Paul Bley, Paul Motian, Sandro Cerino, Steve Swallow, Tiziano Tononi, and Vincenzo Zitello.

Dino Betti van der Noot: Let Us Recount Our Dreams

by Thomas Conrad
March 8, 2024

The first time I heard the name Dino Betti van der Noot was in the early summer of 2023. My friend Enzo Capua called me and said that Dino was the best jazz composer in Italy and was looking for someone to write liner notes for his new album. I told Enzo I had too many ...

Dino Betti van der Noot: la big band tra suono e racconto

by Neri Pollastri
January 29, 2024

Nel mondo del jazz, e non solo in quello, Dino Betti van der Noot è una personalità decisamente unica: formalmente un dilettante, ha però pubblicato quindici album, molti dei quali pluripremiati; scrive per big band, una cosa oggi ormai rarissima, dando inoltre vita a opere che si discostano dalla tradizione della formazione; dotato di una cultura ...

Dino Betti van der Noot: Let Us Recount Our Dreams

by Neri Pollastri
January 22, 2024

Non finisce di meravigliare Dino Betti Van Der Noot che ormai da vent'anni con cadenza biennale sforna album rari per tipologia --big band, qualcosa che ormai è quasi impossibile far suonare, specie in Italia--e unici per modalità compositive e ricchezza di suoni. Così, a due anni da The Silence of the Broken Lute , ecco adesso ...

Let Us Recount Our Dreams

By Dino Betti van der Noot

Label: Audissea
Released: 2023
Track listing: Let Us Recount Our Dreams; Children of the Zodiac; Love Song for a Blue Gal; High Seas; The Night's Black Mantle.

Dino Betti van der Noot: They Cannot Know

by AAJ Staff
April 5, 2023

The last Soul Note album of Dino betti van der Noot (rhymes with note), Here Comes Springtime (SN1149), contained six of his compositions, two of which, the title track and “October's Dream," had seasonal connotations. This time he gives us “Midwinter Sunshine" and “A Midwinter Night's Dream" in a seasonal shift. Whatever the climate of Betti ...

Dino Betti van der Noot: Here Comes Springtime

by AAJ Staff
March 7, 2023

There are some musicians whose instrument is the orchestra. They hear multiple voices, textures, harmonic designs. And if they are jazz composers, they hear the sweet and pungent tension between the orchestra and the improvising soloist. If, moreover, they are composers interested in more than self-gratification, they hear, as they write, particular players so that the ...

Dino Betti van der Noot: A Chance For A Dance

by Neil Tesser
February 14, 2023

"I love the rhythm—one of the reasons I love jazz is the rhythm—but I have spent some years to free myself from the rhythm." Dino Betti van der Noot sits over breakfast rolls at the Rosetta Hotel in Perugia, Italy. “I experimented with different time signatures and finally found out that the simplest ones are perfect, ...

The Silence of the Broken Lute

By Dino Betti van der Noot

Label: Audissea
Released: 2021
Track listing: The Silence of the Broken Lute; Listen for the Sea-Surge; Here Comes Springtime; Our Nostos; Souriante épanole ravie.

Jeff Parker, Emile Parisien, Andrea Keller, Gabriel Zucker & More New Releases [Mondo Jazz 181-1]

by Ludovico Granvassu
December 28, 2021

Up-and-comers, younger and older Statesmen in a playlist that offers a cross-section of some the most creative new jazz on record. Happy listening! Playlist Ben Allison Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 Dave Meder “Century Rag" Unamuno Songs and Stories (Outside-in-Music) 0:16 Host talks 6:33 Alex Hamburger “What's ...