- He is is a jazz and tango electric guitarist and composer who played for many years with the tango musician Ástor Piazzolla in several of his ensembles.
- Malvicino travelled the world with Piazzolla and his ensembles and together they recorded 15 albums.
- Nicknamed Malveta by his friends, he has worked under 15 pseudonyms including Alain Debray (Alain after the French actor Alain Delon and Debray after the French revolutionary Régis Debray) and Don Nadie (Don Nobody), typically when playing music outside the world of jazz.
- During the 1960s he formed his own ensemble, the Horacio Malvicino Jazz Quintet.
- The son of Esteben Malvicino, a railway employee, Horacio grew up in Concordia where, between and ages of 6 and 14, he was taught to play the guitar by Augustin Satalia. His teacher would only allow him to play classical music and in those days jazz was rarely heard in the city.
- He got to know the music of the jazz guitarists Charlie Christian and Django Reinhardt and the jazz clarinetist Benny Goodman, by listening to a friend's records of these musicians.
- He also listened to the tango music of Ástor Piazzolla's Orquesta Típica on Radio Splendid.
- Arriving in Buenos Aires in 1947, he studied medicine for five years until music took over his life and he became part of the bop generation centred on the Bop Club Argentino. This venue was frequented by the Argentine jazz tenor saxophonist Gato Barbieri, the Argentine pianist Lalo Schifrin and Rubén López Furst.
- A long association with Piazzolla would see Malvicino join his first Quinteto in 1960, where he alternated with Oscar Lopez Ruiz, his Octeto Electronico in 1976, his second Quinteto in 1978 and his Sexteto Nuevo Tango in 1989.
- In 2008 Malvicino published a book entitled El Tano y Yo, where he records stories of his musical career as electric guitarist in Piazzolla's various ensembles.
- In 1955 he joined Piazzolla's Octeto Buenos Aires which would pioneer nuevo tango, a new approach to tango, until then dominated by the traditional orquesta típicas of the 1930s and 1940s. This would mark a watershed in the history of tango and set Piazzolla on a collision course with the tango establishment.
- With a lifelong interest in horses inherited from his father, he runs his own stud farm, San Antonio, for breeding race horses.
- It was on the Bop Club Argentino that the first attempts to development modern jazz in Argentina were taking place in response to the great changes in the jazz world, initiated by the American jazz saxophonist Charlie Parker.
- He is vice-president of the Argentine Interpreters Association.
- The jazz-like improvisations of Malvicino on electric guitar in, for example, Piazzolla's 1955 composition Marron y Azul, had never been heard before in tango.
- He has composed music for more than 90 Argentine films and theatrical works and in 1998 was awarded first prize by SADAIC for his film music.
- Having never completed his medical studies as a young man he still maintains an interest in the subject and attends courses from time to time.
- Over the years he has played various genres of music with many of the great names in the music world including Dizzy Gillespie, Gary Burton, Miles Davis, Antônio Carlos Jobim, Joao Gilberto, Susana Rinaldi, Milva, Tanguito, Los Chalchaleros, Palito Ortega, and Plácido Domingo.
- From a young age, Malvicino has been an outstanding sight reader and arranger of music and has worked as musical director for the Argentine recording label, Disc Jockey, the international recording label RCA Records and for the Argentine television channel, Canal 11.
- Of the electric guitarists who played with Piazzolla, Malvicino was the one who he considered to best understood his music, and who was the most tanguero.
- By the time Piazzolla met Malvicino for the first time in 1954, improvising in the Bop Club, Malvicino had already played with several orquesta típicas of the time including those of Fernando Roca, Eduardo Armani and Rene Cospito.
- He wrote for musical works on television, made jingles, musicalized films scores and accompanied many sets of diverse rhythms and tango.
- He was art director at Disc Jockey (Argentine Label that began in 1957) and had the direction of the studio session band / orchestra, also performed in the 70s under his alias Alain Debray.
- He was also known by his alias "El Malveta".
- His style goes through late 1960's and early 1970's distinguished contemporaries directors of proficient musical background such as: Caravelli, Franck Pourcel, Ray Conniff, to mention a few ones.
- Ran his own stud farm, San Antonio, for breeding race horses.
- Has two sons, Marcelo and Horacio.
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