Jazz Articles about Enrico Pieranunzi

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Enrico Pieranunzi, Right Now

by Todd M. Carlsen
October 12, 2026

Enrico Pieranunzi turned seventy-six in December 2025. Skip the tribute. He's busy--delivering four masterclass releases across 2026. The solo piano session Ennio Morricone--The Piano Sessions by Enrico Pieranunzi (CAM Sugar, 2026). A mostly-duo album with guitar, Evanscape (Bonsaï Music, 2026). A jazz-classical record with an orchestra, Improclassica (Abeat, 2025). A quartet with tenor saxophone, Perspectives (Red Records, 2026). He is not coasting on a name. He remains a powerhouse of European jazz. For American listeners unfamiliar with Pieranunzi, ...

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Hindsight: Enrico Pieranunzi, Marc Johnson and Joey Baron

by Brian Morton
February 17, 2025

Sometimes we're reduced to throwing down old bones and seeing what messages they deliver back. Maybe noticed at the time, but the recording of Hindsight, by the trio of maestro Enrico Pieranunzi, master bassist Marc Johnson and time-lord Joey Baron took place almost exactly sixty years after one of the most famous jazz piano sessions of all. When most admirers think of Bill Evans, their minds go first to the famous Village Vanguard sessions of June 1961, with Scott LaFaro ...

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Double Jazz Anniversary: George Gershwin & Duke Ellington Cremona Jazz Fest 2024

by Danilo Codazzi
June 8, 2024

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Enrico Pieranunzi & Bert Joris: Chet Remembered

by Chris May
June 23, 2023

Chet Remembered is the second disc the pianist Enrico Pieranunzi has recorded with a big band in as many years. Both are what used to be called “concept albums." 2022's offering, Blues & Bach (Challenge), was made with the Orchestra Filarmonica Italiana, and celebrated the compositions of John Lewis, mainly those Lewis recorded with the Modern Jazz Quartet. It is a lovely disc. Lovely, too, is Chet Remembered, made with the Frankfurt Radio Big Band, conducted by ...

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Enrico Pieranunzi Trio & Orchestra: Blues & Bach: The Music Of John Lewis

by Chris May
January 6, 2023

If the work of any jazz composer lends itself to elegant reframing, as opposed to crass sweetening, by a chamber orchestra, it is that of John Lewis, co-founder of the Modern Jazz Quartet. Lewis' ambition, most often metaphorically realised but sometimes literally so, was to achieve a synthesis of blues and Bach. His blends were mostly successful and only occasionally, in self-conscious forays into “third stream" music, did his innate vibrancy become subsumed in arid academia. Lewis ...

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Enrico Pieranunzi Trio at Politeama Theatre Manerbio Jazz Fest 2022

by Danilo Codazzi
November 11, 2022

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Harry James, Quentin Baxter & Enrico Pieranunzi

by Joe Dimino
August 28, 2022

Italian pianist Enrico Pieranunzi kicks off the 766th Episode of Neon Jazz with music from is release New Visions (2019). We follow that up with music from Pieranunzi's early collaborator, trumpeter Chet Baker. As 2022 marches on, many artists are releasing albums and touring post-COVID restrictions. We profile new music from Quentin E. Baxter, John Lee, Mark Filsinger and Dave Slonaker. In between, we visit the 1940s with classics from Miff Ferrie and Harry James. Dig the jazz, my friends.