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Manuel Engel
Manuel T. Engel is a Chrysler Jazz Award WINNER, 14th Annual BILLBOARD World Songwriting Contest WINNER - Composer/Pianist/Producer. A classically trained and internationally renowned musician, combining the classic influences of Miles Davis with the breakthrough techniques of visionaries like John Cage and Sun Ra.
MTE toured in Switzerland (International Jazz Festivals of Bern, Olten, Zuerich and Montreux) Europe and the U.S., including performances in Berlin/Germany, New York/USA: Smalls, Knitting Factory, Nuyorican Poets Cafe, B.B. King (Showcase for MBK Entertainment), BAM at Fort Greene Park, Village Soul Festival, Top Events of Switzerland at Lincoln Center (Kaplan Penthouse) and Washington DC (John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts).
Awards
Chrysler Jazz Award, Billboard Songwriting Award, OurStage Artist of the Month Award, Independent Music Awards Finalist
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Take Five With Manuel Engel
by AAJ Staff
Meet Manuel Engel: Manuel Engel is a Chrysler Jazz Award winner, 14th Annual Billboard World Songwriting Contest winner, Excellence in Songwriting Award winner. A classically trained and internationally renowned musician, he has performed everywhere from the Knitting Factory to the Kennedy Center, combining the classic influences of Miles Davis with the breakthrough techniques of visionaries like John Cage and Sun Ra.Instrument(s): Composer/Pianist/Producer.Teachers and/or influences? Teachers: Richie Beirach, Chico Freeman, William Evans. Influences: Miles Davis, Steve Reich, ...
read moreJohn Stevenson's Top 10 Christmas Jazz Recordings for 2008
Source:
All About Jazz
Christmas Notes by Manuel Engel was announced as a Top 10 Christmas Jazz Recordings for 2008:
John Stevenson’s Top 10 Christmas jazz recordings for 2008:
1. Verve Remixed Christmas (Verve) 2. A Night Before Christmas, Spyro Gyra (Heads Up) 3. Christmas With My Friends II, Nils Landgren (ACT) 4. Christmas Notes, Manuel Engel, (Metonic) 5. Christmas, Al Jarreau (Rhino) 6. What A Night! Harry Connick Jr (Columbia) 7. ...
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Manuel Engel/ME 3 Album Finalist For 7th Annual Independent Music Awards
Source:
All About Jazz
"Engel has a knack for crafting elegant, cinematic pieces of music. And it is an ability he demonstrates splendidly on ME 3” a constantly shifting improvised album with an achingly beautiful, zen-like quality to it. Throughout, Engel’s classically influenced vision is experimental and refreshingly original: his playing is minimalist at times, exotic at others, and once in a while channeling Paul Bley’s more explorative imaginings. Finally, however, it is Engel’s piano playing that stars: his dreamy solo number ‘Alithea’ ends what is a dynamic” at times eerily hypnotic” experience."
Primary Instrument
Piano
Location
Berne
Willing to teach
Advanced only
Credentials/Background
For lessons please e-mail: [email protected]
Music
Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson
