Jazz Articles about Enrico Pieranunzi

Enrico Pieranunzi / Marc Johnson / Joey Baron, Featuring Kenny Wheeler: As Never Before

by John Kelman
May 2, 2008

Pianist Enrico Pieranunzi isn't the only artist influenced by Kenny Wheeler's classic Gnu High. It's a safe bet that the trumpeter's 1976 debut as a leader for ECM, featuring the perfect line-up of pianist Keith Jarrett, bassist Dave Holland and drummer Jack DeJohnette, has been one of small group jazz's most influential albums of the past thirty years; as remarkable for Wheeler's inimitable writing as its unparalleled performances. Few, however, get the opportunity to recruit Wheeler in the same quartet ...

Enrico Pieranunzi - Marc Johnson - Joey Baron: As Never Before

by AAJ Italy Staff
February 25, 2008

Notturno, lirico, crepuscolare. Sono tre gli aggettivi che meglio definiscono questa ennesima gemma discografica di Enrico Pieranunzi. Più che un disco, è una fragorosa freccia di Cupido, che arriva dritta al cuore di chi lo ascolta. È un’opera preziosa, riservata a chi si aspetta dall’arte emozioni profonde. La alimenta una musica coinvolgente, ammaliante ed intensa, che si impone sin dal brano d’apertura grazie a delicati equilibri melodici ricchi di grazia. Al suadente mood di base fa riscontro la straordinaria statura ...

Enrico Pieranunzi: Live in Paris

by AAJ Italy Staff
July 2, 2007

È straordinario quanto Enrico Pieranunzi riesca ancora ad emozionare e coinvolgere lavorando con una formula così abusata come il piano trio, che egli stesso ha esplorato con dedizione dal 1984 (ma il suo primo trio risale al 1975, con Tommaso e Jorgensen) portandolo a toccare alte vette espressive. Questa registrazione, ripresa il 22, 23 e 24 aprile 2001 nel famoso club parigino Le Duc Des Lombards, lo vede assieme a Hein Van De Geyn ed André Ceccarelli con cui aveva ...

Enrico Pieranunzi - Marc Johnson - Joey Baron: Live in Japan

by AAJ Italy Staff
July 2, 2007

Leggi Enrico Pieranunzi, Joey Baron, Marc Johnson e pensi immediatamente Bill Evans Trio. Vuoi per la dichiarata ammirazione di Pieranunzi al grande pianista di Plainfield, e per l’approfondito studio del musicista e della sua musica culminato nel bellissimo libro “Bill Evans - Ritratto di artista con pianoforte“ (Ed. Stampa Alternativa). Vuoi perchè di Bill Evans, Marc Johnson è stato l’ultimo, grandissimo contrabbassista. Ma Live in Japan suona 100% Pieranunzi, con le sue passioni e il suo stile così poco etichettabile, ...

Enrico Pieranunzi / Marc Johnson / Joey Baron: Live in Japan

by John Kelman
June 18, 2007

By no means a newcomer to the scene, Italian pianist Enrico Pieranunzi's star has only begun to rise significantly in North America in the past couple of years, with albums including the outstanding FelliniJazz (Cam Jazz, 2004) and Plays Morricone (Cam Jazz, 2005) finally more readily available. The double-disc Live in Japan, recorded in the spring of 2004, shortly ahead of the session for Ballads (Cam Jazz, 2006), captures the pianist once again in the company of bassist Marc Johnson ...

Trio Magic: Live in Japan & Ballads

by Ken Dryden
June 3, 2007

Pianist Enrico Pieranunzi, bassist Marc Johnson and drummer Joey Baron aren't really a regular working trio, but whenever they meet for a recording session or short tour, the gathering of these three musicians is a cause for celebration. They first worked together in 1984 after they were stranded in Rome after a tour was cancelled, with Pieranunzi being called in to do a pickup date with the Americans at Music Inn. Since then they have recorded a number of CDs ...

Enrico Pieranunzi / Marc Johnson / Joey Baron: Live in Japan

by C. Michael Bailey
May 23, 2007

I suspect that at least a gazillion electrons have been sacrificed to the obvious influence that Bill Evans had on Italian pianist Enrico Pieranunzi...and I am going to offer up a few million more. Pieranunzi is well-studied in the Evans musical method, even establishing a temporal connection to Evans through bassist Marc Johnson, who performed with Evans on the late pianists final monolithic sets, Last Waltz and Consecration.

Johnson has show up regularly in Pieranunzi's groups, documented on Untold Stories, ...