Inhalt JeffLevenson Two Roads, Both Taken Roland Spiegel The gentleman with the finely-contoured tone Franco Ambrosetti - musician, industrialist, and a story-teller with a serene and refined style Childhood and Adolescence My father • Music • My mother • Toots Thielemans * The revelation • Trumpet for ever • An uphill climb • Boarding school • The first time • P.S. The Sixties - Part One Welcome to Zurich • The Africana • Baroque music and jazz: improvisation • Flavio Ambrosetti All Stars • Zurich by night • University • P.S. The Sixties - Part Two Big festivals • Comblain-la-Tour • Warsaw • Prague • Festival of Bologna and Mingus • Mingus • P.S. • Milan, the Derby and Miles • Villa Pirla • Miles and Herbie • Vienna: the contest • The award ceremony • In California ♦ Doubts persist • P.S. The Sixties - Part Three Basel and graduation at last! • Thoughts and dilemmas • Vita nova-A new life • Graduatuion • Gift and choice • P.S. Bibliografische Informationen http://d-nb.info/1204323941 The Seventies - Part One 63 Two professions and the battle with time • Digressions on dichotomy • Back to Ticino • The Band and the George Gruntz Concert Jazz Band • P. S.: Gianluca and Flavia The Seventies - Part Two 71 PDU, the steady quartet and Umbria Jazz * Trumpet Machine • Sleeping Gipsy • Berliner Jazzfest • Enja and New York City * P.S. The Roaring Eighties 81 C.M.R. • How to manage a lack of time • Advice for all trumpet players, dichotomous or not • The most successful projects of the decade • Heart Bop • Wings • P. S. • Tentets • Movies und Movies Too * The Salami Section and Ravas earful • Third Stream • P.S. The Nineties 99 A whirlwind of events • Sooner or later it happens • Silli • Twenty years of romance • P.S. American Experiences and more 109 Chicago Blues • The Blue Note in New York • Jazz schools • NYC by night • P.S. The New Millennium 121 Digressions • New horizons • Music and theatre • P. S. New Collaborations, new Projects 131 Albums and projects of the new millennium • Duo with Miroslav Vitous • Friendship with Uri Caine • Other projects of the third millennium • Cycladic Mood • After the Rain • What does the future hold? Lugano, Lugano i 141 Lugano bella * Prominent Americans in Ticino • The jazz festival of Lugano • Great artists, great voices • P.S. Honors 6 Something very personal 151 My wonderful family • Paros • Special people • Epilog • P. S.: A portrait of Franco written by his children Memories 159 Enrico Rava • Randy Brecker • Paolo Fresu • Uri Caine • Daniel Humair • Dado Moroni • Greg Osby P.S. 165 Discograpy 167 Index 175 7 .