Jazz Articles about Enzo Favata

Enzo Favata Tentetto: The New Village

by Mark Corroto
July 6, 2009

The ancient and the modern is the theme of composer/saxophonist Enzo Favata's The New Village. Together with his Tentetto, he fuses traditional vocals from Sardinia, his home, with the American jazz lexicon. Unlike the cultural larceny of Paul Simon's Graceland (Warner, 1986), Favata's music coalesces into an ingenuous expression of music.

The saxophonist has immersed himself in Sardinia's culture, releasing traditional music of the past. Here, he invites a quartet of traditional singers, the Tenores di Bitti, a ...

Enzo Favata: No Man's Land

by AAJ Italy Staff
October 4, 2007

Il nuovo disco del sassofonista Enzo Favata è forse il più jazzistico da lui finora realizzato, pur non rinunciando alla componente etnica che ha sempre caratterizzato la sua musica, e che ritroviamo qui nella melodia di alcuni temi di gusto prettamente mediterraneo. Viene a mancare anche quel sapore di originalità e genuinità che permeava i suoi progetti più legati alla tradizione, sostituito però da una maggior compattezza dell'insieme. Gli accompagnatori sono i suoi collaboratori abituali, a cominciare dal chitarrista Marcello ...

Enzo Favata: Voyage en Sardaigne

by Glenn Astarita
April 1, 1999

Inspired by Alberto Ferrero della Marmora’s one hundred year old book “Voyage en Sardaigne”, saxophonist/composer Enzo Favata is accompanied by the usual members of his group and some of Sardinia’s best musicians while weaving a fabric of folksy pieces that successfully integrate elements of European jazz stylization’s. The approach is startlingly genuine as the listener gets a peek into this historic and industrious Mediterranean Island through these exhilarating and wondrously refreshing compositions.

“Contami unu Contu” commences with a beautiful melody ...