Rio de Gregori
Rio de Gregori was a Swiss jazz pianist.
de Gregori first started to play the piano at the age of 7. His parents had aspirations that he would become a classical pianist, but he performed professionally as a jazz musician. He worked with of Willy Mac Allen, James Boucher, Jo Grandjean and René Weiss. During the war he played with Fred Böhler until 1945 when he founded a big band of his own which included Flavio Ambrosetti and Stuff Combe.
When his band broke up, he still worked as both a trio and soloist and he managed a bar in Ascona, Switzerland. He settled, later, in Munich and opened a night club there, Bar Ascona, and called himself Rio Gregory.
