Raffaele Celeste "Nini" Rosso (19 September 1926 – 5 October 1994) was an Italian jazz trumpeter and composer. == Biography == Rosso was born in Turin, Italy. His parents attempted to send him to university, but at 19 he chose the trumpet over academia, and left home. He was a partisan during the World War II Liberation from Nazist and Fascist occupation, and operated in Valle Maira with Giorgio Bocca and Detto Dalmastro, partisan commander of the anti-fascist brigade Giustizia... [more on Wikipedia]