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Enrico Granafei
Enrico Granafei: Alone (and) Together
by Angelo Leonardi
Enrico Granafei è un chitarrista e armonicista cosentino residente da anni negli Stati Uniti, precisamente a Montclair (New Jersey), dove possiede un ristorante e jazz club, Trumpets. La sua storia musicale inizia dopo un diploma di chitarra nel 1976 al conservatorio dell'Aquila e con l'attività di armonicista a Roma, iniziata alla fine di quel decennio dopo aver ascoltato Toots Thielemans. Negli anni ottanta si trasferisce a New York: inizia a esibirsi nei club e perfeziona la sua tecnica, iscrivendosi alla ...
read moreEnrico Granafei: In Search Of The Third Dimension
by Michael P. Gladstone
Enrico Granafei's day job (well, really his night job) is as proprietor and musical director of Trumpets, a popular jazz club in Montclair, New Jersey in the Metropolitan New York area. His other avocation is as a musician and recording artist, simultaneously playing chromatic harmonica and acoustic nylon guitar.
Granafei is a graduate of the Conservatory of L'Aquina in Italy and began working as a classical guitarist. After hearing a friend's recording of Bill Evans' Affinity (Warner Brothers, ...
read moreEnrico Granafei at Enzo's Wednesday January 23rd Sets at 8:00 & 9:30
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Jim Eigo, Jazz Promo Services
Enrico Granafei Solo at the Jazz Improv Convention Saturday October 27 at 12.00 Noon
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Jim Eigo, Jazz Promo Services
Enrico Granafei at the Traid Thurdsay June 2nd 8:30 PM
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All About Jazz
May 25, 2005 To: Listings/Critics/Features From: JAZZ PROMO SERVICES Press Contact: JIM EIGO, [email protected] A unique performance will take place at the Triad on Thursday, June 2nd at 8:30 PM. Harmonica virtuoso, guitarist, and composer Enrico Granafei will play a solo concert with guitar and Hands-Free-Chromatic Harmonica. Enrico discovered the Hands-Free-Chromatic Harmonica, invented by Vern Smith, during a harmonica convention in Dallas, Texas.. This simple but revolutionary invention allows him to play guitar and chromatic harmonica at the same time ...
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