Jazz Articles about Enrico Pieranunzi

Enrico Pieranunzi: Untold Story

by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
January 9, 2007

By my count, pianist Enrico Pieranunzi has, in the last couple of years, released no fewer than six records to critical acclaim ranging from ebullient to ecstatic: FelliniJazz (CamJazz, 2004), Les Amants (Egea, 2004), Special Encounter (CamJazz, 2005), Play Morricone (CamJazz, 2005), Live in Paris (Challenge, 2006), and Ballads (CamJazz, 2006). He even found the time to write a lovely book about his hero Bill Evans. Maybe some listeners find even this prodigious productivity to be insufficient. For their benefit, ...

Enrico Pieranunzi - Marc Johnson - Joey Baron: Ballads

by AAJ Italy Staff
October 30, 2006

La ballad come luogo privilegiato della memoria e del cuore. È questo il filo conduttore della nuova avventura discografica di Enrico Pieranunzi, che ha il raro dono di divertire e stupire, prima se stesso che gli altri. Il suo è un disco prezioso, che va gustato a piccole dosi per apprezzarne le infinite nuances, per scoprire una poetica che, rispondendo alle ragioni dell’introspezione, traduce in musica le corde più autentiche del Pieranunzi intimista. Che sin dalla rivisitazione di un tema ...

Dado Moroni - Enrico Pieranunzi: Live Conversations

by AAJ Italy Staff
September 25, 2006

Il jazz italiano si era già distinto per interessanti incontri pianistici a quattro mani, grazie ad esempio alle coppie Grossi/Rea e Cojaniz/Pacorig. Ora è la volta di Dado Moroni ed Enrico Pieranunzi, due tra i migliori jazzisti della scena europea. Un profluvio di note; si potrebbe definire così il loro incontro a due voci, ora documentato da questa incisione live per la Abeat Record. Anche qui la performance si sviluppa nel segno di una prova muscolare, in cui è più ...

Enrico Pieranunzi / Marc Johnson / Joey Baron: Ballads

by Samuel Chell
August 28, 2006

Pity bassist Marc Johnson. He was an integral part of Bill Evans' trio during the pianist's final year, an extraordinary valedictory culminating in two monumental sets, Last Waltz and Consecration (Fantasy, 1980/2002), only to be orphaned upon the pianist's sudden death at the completion of those remarkable recordings. There would be no one to take the place of Bill Evans, but approximately ten years later Johnson would record with a brilliant young pianist who was, at least to those in ...

Enrico Pieranunzi / Marc Johnson / Joey Baron: Ballads

by John Kelman
August 8, 2006

The simplest stories often reveal the greatest depth. So, too, can the simplest songs yield richer meaning. Italian pianist Enrico Pieranunzi makes that abundantly clear with Ballads, an album so gentle it can almost pass by unnoticed. But pay attention and what may appear to be a collection of easy-on-the-ears songs prove to be much more.

Pieranunzi has worked with bassist Marc Johnson and drummer Joey Baron before, most notably on Plays Morricone (Cam Jazz, 2005). In recent years Johnson ...

Day 11 - Festival International de Jazz de Montreal, July 8, 2006

by John Kelman
July 10, 2006

Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5 | Day 6 | Day 8 | Day 9 | Day 10 | Day 11 | Day 12

As the 27th edition of the Montreal Jazz Festival heads for the home stretch, two unique and diverse performances showed why it is one of the largest and most successful jazz festivals in the world. For many years, Montreal's festival has succumbed to the temptation to bring in ...

Enrico Pieranunzi: Live In Paris

by Chris May
March 28, 2006

Gorgeously lyrical but unpredictable and open to free jazz, Italian pianist Enrico Pieranunzi always delights. His recordings, which are now frequent going on prolific, move the scenery around so that he rarely plays in the same context twice running. Highlights from the last year or so have ranged from the spare and spacey explorations of Doorways (with Paul Motian and Chris Potter) through the rhapsodic accessibility of Play Morricone (with Marc Johnson and Joey Baron).

Live In Paris, a double-CD ...