Timoteo "Dino" Saluzzi (born 20 May 1935) is an Argentine bandoneon player. He is the son of Cayetano Saluzzi and the father of guitarist José Maria Saluzzi.
Timoteo "Dino" Saluzzi was born in Campo Santo, Salta Province, Argentina. He began playing the bandoneon as a child. His father was Cayetano Saluzzi.
Saluzzi has been playing the bandoneon since his childhood. As a youth in Buenos Aires, Dino played with the Radio El Mundo orchestra.
Saluzzi landed a contract with the ECM label. Several records have resulted, including Kultrum, 1983. From the beginning of the 1980s onwards, there were collaborations with European and American jazz musicians including Charlie Haden, Tomasz Staà Âko, Charlie Mariano, Palle Danielsson, and Al Di Meola.
ECM brought Saluzzi together with Charlie Haden, Palle Mikkelborg and Pierre Favre for Once upon a Time â Far Away in the South. Rava had worked extensively in Argentina, and Haden's sympathy for Latin American music was well known; furthermore Palle Mikkelborg and Dino Saluzzi had worked together productively in George Gruntz's band.
With Pedro Orillas
With Litto Nebbia
With George Gruntz
With Al Di Meola
With Rickie Lee Jones
With Maria João
With Tomasz Staà Âko
With Giya Kancheli, Gidon Kremer and Andrei Pushkarev