Charly Antolini
Charly Antolini (born 24 May 1937) is a Swiss jazz drummer.
Charly Antolini

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- Name
- Charly Antolini
- Born
- 24 May 1937
- Birthplace
- Zürich, Switzerland
- Occupation
- Musician
- Nationality
- Switzerland
- Fields
- jazz
- Languages
- German
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Charly Antolini (born 24 May 1937) is a Swiss jazz drummer.
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Biography
Biography
Antolini worked across jazz musician and musician. The registers place that work in jazz. This article rests on 100 catalogued compositions, 36 issued recordings and 4 scholarly references drawn from named institutional registers. Every statement below returns to a source shown in the evidence panel; where the record is silent or divided, the article says so instead of resolving it.
Key facts
Key facts
• Name — Charly Antolini • Born — 24 May 1937 • Birthplace — Zürich, Switzerland • Genre — Jazz • Occupation — Musician • Instrument — Drums • Years Active — 1950s–present • Website — http: www.charly-antolini.de/ Charly Antolini (born 24 May 1937) is a Swiss jazz drummer.
Career
Career
Born in Zürich, Antolini started playing the traditional Swiss Basler drum. In 1956, he went to Paris, where he played with Sidney Bechet and Bill Coleman. He joined the Tremble Kids with trumpeter Oscar Klein and clarinettist Werner Keller. In 1962 he lived in Stuttgart, Germany, where he spent five years playing with bassist Peter Witte and pianist Horst Jankowski in the SWR Big Band led by Erwin Lehn. With Witte, between 1965 and 1967, he recorded five albums for the Romanian pianist Eugen Cicero, who combined classical music with jazz. He also played in big bands with Kurt Edelhagen, Peter Herbolzheimer, and Max Greger in the NDR Bigband. In 1976 he formed Charly Antolini's Jazz Power with Steve Hooks (tenor sax), Andrei Lobanov (trumpet), David Gazarov (keyboards). and Rocky Knauer (bass). Later members were Len Skeat and Brian Lemon. In the 1980s he toured Germany, Italy, and Denmark with Benny Goodman, as well as with Lionel Hampton, Barbara Dennerlein, Albert Mangelsdorff, Earl Hines, Roy Eldridge, Jimmy Giuffre, Art Farmer, Oliver Nelson, Art Van Damme, Stuff Smith, and Baden Powell. In the late 1980s-early 1990s he recorded four albums with British tenor saxophonist Dick Morrissey, three of which were live, and in 1994 he started the Super Trio with pianist Dirk Raufeisen and bassist Jimmy Woode.
As leader
As leader
• Drum Beat (SABA, 1966) • Soul Beat (MPS, 1968) • In the Groove (MPS/BASF, 1972) • Atomic Drums (Columbia, 1972) • Jazz Power/Live (Plane, 1978) • Knock Out (Jeton, 1979) • Special Delivery (MPS, 1980) • Countdown (Jeton, 1980) • Crash (Jeton, 1981) • Menue (Jeton, 1982) • Bop Dance (Jazz Publications, 1982) • Finale (Jeton, 1983) • Caravan (Extra, 1985) • Wow!!! (Verve, 1987) • A Swinging Affair (Ariola, 1989) • Live On Tour! with Barbara Dennerlein (BEBAB, 1989) • Cookin (L+R, 1990) • Recorded at the BBC Studio London (Bell, 1991) • Charly Antolini Meets Dick Morrissey (Bell, 1992) • On the Beat (Bell, 1993) • Chicago Dixieland Swiss Made (Downtown, 1994) • Swing Explosion with Gerry Hayes (Bell, 1994) • Right On! (Bell, 1995) • Knock Out 2000 (Inak, 1999) • Swing Kings (ACT, 2001) • Love to Play! (Skinfire, 2001) • Live in Concert (Skinfire, 2003) • The Jubilee 2006 Mixing Stuff (Skinfire, 2006) • Good Time Together (Skinfire, 2013) • Groove Merchant (Skinfire, 2015)
As sideman
As sideman
With Eugen Cicero • Rokoko Jazz (SABA, 1965) • In Town (SABA, 1965) • Swinging Tschaikowsky (SABA, 1966) • Cicero's Chopin (SABA, 1966) • Romantic Swing (SABA, 1968) • Balkan Rhapsody (MPS, 1970) • Klavierspielereien (MPS/BASF, 1971) • Swinging Classics (MPS, 1972) • Highlights (MPS/BASF, 1976) • Presenting Eugen Cicero (MPS, 1978) • Classics in Rhythm (MPS, 1986) With Horst Jankowski • Traumklang und Rhythmus mit Horst Jankowski (Mercury, 1965) • Horst Jankowski Quartet/Horst Jankowski with Bernie's Swing Five (Orix, 1978) • Piano Interlude (Intersound, 1994) With Art Van Damme • Art van Damme (SR, 1967) • The Gentle Art of Art (SABA, 1967) • Ecstasy (SABA, 1967) • Art in the Black Forest (MPS, 1968) • Lullaby in Rhythm (MPS, 1968) • Art and Four Brothers (MPS, 1969) • On the Road (MPS, 1969) • The Many Moods of Art (BASF 1972) • Invitation (MPS/BASF, 1974) • With Strings (MPS, 1979) With others • Svend Asmussen, Jazz Fiddlin' Around (Murbo, 1967) • Francis Coppieters, Rosen fur Dich (Cornet Special, 1968) • Fatty George, Fatty '78 (MPS, 1978) • Jack Hammer, Jack Hammer Presents: This Is My Song (Bellaphon, 1978) • Benny Goodman, Berlin 1980 (TCB, 1996) • George Gruntz, Drums and Folklore: From Sticksland with Love (SABA, 1967) • Danny Moss, Steamers! (Nagel Heyer, 1999) • Danny Moss, Steam Power! (Nagel Heyer, 2002) • Baden Powell, Poema on Guitar (MPS/SABA, 1967) • Dieter Reith, A Happy Afternoon (SABA, 1966) • Kristian Schultze, Jazz Rock Made in Germany (Kick/OBH, 2010) • The Singers Unlimited, Feelings (MPS/Universal, 2007) • Stuff Smith, Black Violin (SABA, 1967) • Joe Turner & Albert Nicholas, Joe & Nick + Two (Columbia, 1958)
Career and working life
Career and working life
Antolini worked as jazz musician and musician. The fields Antolini worked in include jazz. Antolini played the drum kit. Antolini worked in German.
Catalogued output
Compositions
The entries below are works composed by the subject, as the institutional registers catalogue them; later performances and commercial recordings of the same music are listed separately. 100 further compositions are catalogued under Antolini's name without a date the collections agree on, which is why they are set apart from the dated run rather than placed in it. A selection is set out below and the complete run may be opened beneath it. It Never Entered My Mind. If I Were a Bell.
The entries follow MusicBrainz
On a Clear Day (You Can See Forever)
I Love You
Exactly Like You
Das Land des Lächelns: Akt II. 11 „Dein ist mein ganzes Herz” (Sou-Chong)
I’ll Never Be the Same
Love for Sale
Indiana (Back Home Again in Indiana)
I Got It Bad (and That Ain’t Good)
Hymn to Freedom
Just Squeeze Me (but Don’t Tease Me)
I Mean You
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The entries follow MusicBrainz
On a Clear Day (You Can See Forever)
I Love You
Exactly Like You
Das Land des Lächelns: Akt II. 11 „Dein ist mein ganzes Herz” (Sou-Chong)
I’ll Never Be the Same
Love for Sale
Indiana (Back Home Again in Indiana)
I Got It Bad (and That Ain’t Good)
Hymn to Freedom
Just Squeeze Me (but Don’t Tease Me)
I Mean You
Bouncing With Bud
More Than You Know
My Little Suede Shoes
Drums (a cappella)
Memories of You
“C” Jam Blues
Fom Sticksland With Love
Creative Rhythm (Creation)
New Orleans Memories
Moonlight on a Baldhead
London by Night
In Walked Bud
Like a Swimming Pool
Change of Air
Please, Close the Door
I Concentrate on You
Geh Heast Charly
Crystal for Christel
Easy Does It
If I Should Lose You
How High the Moon
Come Fly With Me
Just Look at Me Now
I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart
Back at the Chicken Shack
Easy to Love
Five for Three
Darn That Dream
Just You, Just Me
On the Alamo
A Foggy Day (in London Town)
If Dreams Come True
How Could You Do a Thing Like That to Me
Oh, Lady Be Good!
Blues for the Kaiser
Primary material
Recordings and discography
The discography assembled here shows how Antolini's work has been published in sound, not what Antolini made. 33 sound issues are catalogued, carrying dates from 1966 to 2013. An issue is a published recording, distinct from the composition it carries, from a printed score of that composition and from any single performance of it; none of the entries below is counted in the catalogue of compositions above, and several of them carry the same work in different readings. The 1970s are the densest decade of publication, with 7 issues. The performers and issuing labels are as the discographic register states them; where it names no performer the article names none.
Drums and Folklore: From Sticksland With Love
1971
Knock Out 2000
1999
Jazz Power / Live
1978
Knock Out
1979
Menue / Finale
2007
Creative Rhythm
1988
Crash
1981
Right On!
1995
WOW!!!
1987
The Jubilee 2006 - Mixing Stuff
2006
Swing Kings
2001
Catch Up Vol
Power Drummer
2007
Crash / Countdown
1999
A Swinging Affair
1989
Finale
1983
In the Groove
1972
Swing Explosion
1994
Special Delivery
1980
Countdown
1980
Darktown Jazz-Band
1976
Good Time Together
2013
Drum Beat
1966
Soul Beat
1968
Timeless Blues
1996
On the Beat
1993
Drumfire
1995
Primary material
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reference work
- “Charly Antolini”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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institutional register
- Wikidata, structured authority record Q124181: Charly Antolini
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Cited by Wikipedia
Notes from the source article
These works are cited by the source article, in its own numbering. They are recorded as its citations, not as sources VALÉORINE has verified.
- 1.Cook, Richard. Richard Cook's jazz encyclopedia. Penguin. 15. 2005. 0-141-00646-3.
- 2.Drummer World
References
Citations
References
Each reference names the institution holding it, so a reader may go to the document itself.
reference work
Secondary witnessinstitutional register
Wikidata, structured authority record Q124181: Charly AntoliniWikimedia Foundation
General reference
The Encyclopedia exists whether or not anything is for sale. Corrections are recorded rather than overwritten, and every version of this record is kept. Published 17 August 2026.
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