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Pino Rucher (1 January 1924 – 16 August 1996) was an Italian guitarist active in orchestral settings and in film soundtracks.

Pino Rucher
Rucher with the Razzo band
Background information
Born(1924-01-01)1 January 1924
Manfredonia, Italy
Died16 August 1996(1996-08-16) (aged 72)
San Giovanni Rotondo, Italy
GenresJazz
Occupation(s)Guitarist, arranger
Instrument(s)Guitar
Years active1946-1983
Websitewww.pinorucher.it/home.html

Biographical notes and musical career



Early life


Rucher started playing the guitar when his father came back from the United States in 1933 and presented him with a guitar.[1][2][3][4] His parents decided that he should take private music lessons. After a few years’ study, he started playing in public in his hometown and in Naples and Bari.[1][3][4][5][6]


American influence


The presence of American troops in the province of Foggia (and particularly in the area of Manfredonia, Rucher's hometown), between 1943 and 1946 led to Rucher joining several Allied Army's orchestras, where he came into contact with American musical atmosphere and jazz.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9]

Pino Rucher with the Vitale Orchestra
Pino Rucher with the Vitale Orchestra

In 1946, Rucher entered the Carlo Vitale orchestra after coming first in a competition for the position of guitarist at Radio Bari.[1][3][5][6][7][8][9][10] After the dissolution of the Vitale orchestra, Rucher went to work for Radio Milano as a member of the Carlo Zeme orchestra.[5] In the 1950s and the early 1960s he also worked with two forerunners of Italian "swing", Pippo Barzizza and Cinico Angelini.[1][3][5][6][7][8][9][10][11]


Angelini Orchestra


Angelini selected Rucher as a member of his orchestra,[3][5][12][13] with which Rucher worked for about ten years.[1] He participated in events including the First International Song Festival in Venice[14] in 1955 and several San Remo Music Festivals,[12][15][16][17][18][19] among which the 1957 Festival,[2] where Claudio Villa came first with Corde della mia chitarra.[1][17][18]

Pino Rucher at the guitar with the Angelini Orchestra (1956)
Pino Rucher at the guitar with the Angelini Orchestra (1956)

Pino Rucher collaborations


Rucher took part in many musical events and radio and television broadcasts (San Remo Music Festivals, Naples Festivals, Festival delle rose, Mostra Internazionale di Musica Leggera in Venice, Canzonissima, Gran varietà, Studio Uno)[3][6][7][8][20] playing in a number of orchestras and, at the same time, went on cultivating his passion for American music, as can be seen from his transcriptions, with his own arrangements.[3][5][7][8][11][20] He devoted himself to jazz and performed in live concerts or in studios under the direction of many conductors.[9][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33] The influence of American music can be noticed from his performance of Italian songs E se domani, Una zebra a pois (sung by Mina) and Amore twist (sung by Rita Pavone).[3][5][8][11][20] He also worked for orchestra conductor and composer Elvio Monti, who asked him to play in a number of his recordings. Rucher played the guitar in L’Estasi, a composition written by Monti for Andrea Giordana and Marina Solinas.[6]

Rucher took part in Sorella Radio, a production with the RAI orchestra.[citation needed] From the second half of the 1970s to December 1983, Rucher was engaged in playing in concerts as a guitarist in the RAI orchestra Ritmi moderni,[12] which came to be known as the RAI Big Band.[3][5][7][8][11] In 1984, owing to health problems, he stopped working for RAI, left Rome and retired.[7][8]

Pino Rucher is given a medal by Pope Paulus VI
Pino Rucher is given a medal by Pope Paulus VI

Other activities


Rucher performed in film soundtracks from the late 1950s to the mid 1970s, with at least two hundred performances[34] including those under the direction of orchestra conductors Luis Bacalov,[7][20] Gianni Ferrio,[citation needed] Elvio Monti, Ennio Morricone,[13][35] and Riz Ortolani[36].[3][5][8][10][11]

Rucher was the first guitarist to play the electric guitar in Italian westerns,[34] performing as "electric guitar soloist" in A Fistful of Dollars.[2][3][4][5][8][11][37][38][39][40][41] Rucher also appears in some shots from Sanremo - La grande sfida, a 1960 movie including scenes from the San Remo Music Festival.[5][18][42] During his career he took part in musicals including Alleluja brava gente[4][6][8][11] and his guitar ideas are present in numerous Italian songs, including Casetta in Canadà (sung by Carla Boni), Flamenco Rock (Milva), Se non ci fossi tu (Mina), Andavo a cento all’ora (Gianni Morandi), Che m’importa del mondo (Rita Pavone), L’edera (Nilla Pizzi) and Adesso no (Neil Sedaka).[3][5][8][11]

Rucher played not only the electric guitar, but also the folk (or acoustic), the classical, the bass and the twelve-string guitar, and then the banjo, the mandolin and the double bass.[3][4][5][8][11]


Awards


Pino Rucher at the guitar
Pino Rucher at the guitar

The main songs with Pino Rucher as electric guitarist


The main songs with Pino Rucher as electric guitarist:

Pino Rucher with Cinico Angelini in 1955
Pino Rucher with Cinico Angelini in 1955

Soundtracks


The main soundtracks with Pino Rucher as electric guitarist:[52]


Bibliographical notes



References


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  2. "L'incredibile storia di Pino Rucher" (PDF). ilsipontino.net (in Italian). 7 August 2019.
  3. Maurizio De Tullio, ed. (2009). Dizionario Biografico di Capitanata: 1900-2008. Foggia: Edizioni Agorà. pp. 252–3. ISBN 88-89329-03-3.
  4. Piemontese, Lucia (27 September 2011). "Manfredonia ingrata dimentica Pino Rucher, il chitarrista di Sergio Leone". l'Attacco. p. 16.
  5. Pesante, Francesco (3 October 2008). "Pino Rucher, con la sua chitarra wawa dalla trilogia del dollaro alla Carrà...". l'Attacco. p. 19.
  6. Ferri, Michele (October 2008). "Omaggio a Pino Rucher grande chitarrista scomparso". il Provinciale. p. 3.
  7. "Pino Rucher, il musicista manfredoniano che suonò con Luis Bacalov". manfredonianews.it (in Italian). 4 December 2017. Retrieved 15 February 2018.
  8. Fratarcangeli, Fernando (January 2010). "Articolo su Pino Rucher nella rivista Raro!" (PDF). Raro!. pp. 42–44.
  9. Adriano Mazzoletti, ed. (2010). "Chapter III: Il dopoguerra e oltre". Il jazz in Italia: dallo swing agli anni sessanta, vol. II (PDF). Torino: EDT. p. 321. ISBN 978-88-6040-383-4.
  10. "Pino Rucher, storia di un chitarrista RAI" (PDF). ilsipontino.net (in Italian). 4 January 2016.
  11. Castigliego, Anna (9 January 2010). "Pino Rucher sulla rivista di cultura musicale 'Raro'" (PDF). manfredonia.net (in Italian).
  12. Apollonio, Michele (15 December 2005). "Manfredonia: Le intitolazioni a 14 concittadini simbolo: Vie e nuovi nomi nel quartiere "Algesiro-Gozzini"". La Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno. p. 11.
  13. Carlo Ferrini, ed. (2008). "L'orchestra Angelini trasmise per radio musiche composte a Faenza". Faenza... la città. Faenza: Casanova Editore. p. 103.
  14. "Artisti pugliesi: Il chitarrista Pino Ruker". Roma (Napoli). 27 March 1958. p. 4.
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  19. "ORCHESTRA ANGELINI". Settimana radio TV (Milano). 6 February 1960. p. 22.
  20. "IL RICORDO: Quando Lina Wertmüller parlò del musicista manfredoniano Pino Rucher: "Era un ottimo chitarrista"". l'Attacco. 14 December 2021. p. 24.
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  22. Franchini, Vittorio (28 January 1980). "Jazz della Rai (prima volta) esce dal Palazzo con tante «star»" (PDF). Corriere della Sera. p. 9.
  23. Franchini, Vittorio (30 January 1980). "Il jazz della RAI esce dal Palazzo" (PDF). Corriere della Sera. p. 19.
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  25. "Alla radio questa settimana" (PDF). Radiocorriere TV. March 1980. p. 61.
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  27. Michael Frohne, ed. (1983). Subconscious-Lee: 35 Years of Records&Tapes: THE LEE KONITZ DISCOGRAPHY, 1947-82 (PDF). Freiburg: Jazz realities. p. 104.
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  29. "Ciao Pregadio, maestro di musica e di vita". iltempo.it (in Italian). 16 November 2010.
  30. "Battiti del 25/12/2016" (PDF). raiplayradio.it (in Italian). 25 December 2016.
  31. "Battiti del 03/01/2017" (PDF). raiplayradio.it (in Italian). 3 January 2017.
  32. "Battiti del 21/01/2017" (PDF). raiplayradio.it (in Italian). 21 January 2017.
  33. "Battiti del 29/01/2017" (PDF). raiplayradio.it (in Italian). 29 January 2017.
  34. Sticozzi, Anna Lucia (11 October 2010). "L'omaggio alla chitarra dei «western»" (PDF). La Gazzetta di Capitanata - La Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno. p. 11.
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  41. Massimo Cotto, ed. (2021). Rock is the answer: Le risposte della musica alle questioni della vita. Venezia: Marsilio. p. 72. ISBN 978-88-297-1292-2.
  42. "Sanremo - La grande sfida". YouTube. YouTube. Retrieved 2 March 2018.
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  52. Fratarcangeli, Fernando (January 2010). "Discografia di Pino Rucher pubblicata nella rivista Raro!" (PDF). Raro!. p. 45.
  53. Stefanel, Renzo (23 February 2017). "Ennio Morricone - Perché Morricone piace tanto ai musicisti rock?" (PDF). rockit.it (in Italian).
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  55. Patry, Mario (January–August 2014). "Le Bon, la Brute et le Truand - Coups de feu dans la Sierra Leone (2e partie)" (PDF). Séquences. pp. 26–27.
  56. "THE FINAL SCORE" (PDF). MOJO. October 2020. pp. 46–49.


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