Results for "Enja Records"

Tora Collective

By Petros Klampanis

Label: Enja Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Tora; Enteka; Disoriented; Xehorismata; South by Southeast; Menexedes kai Zouboulia; Hariklaki; Sibethera; Osmadakas; Milo Mou kai Mantarini.

Petros Klampanis: Tora Collective

by John Chacona
May 15, 2023

Some ideas work better on paper than on record. Take the attempts to fuse jazz and Greek popular music. There is, to be sure, a certain logic to the notion. Both traditions share an emphasis on virtuosic improvisation and a foundation in dance rhythms. Rebetika, the mournful songs of heartache, alienation and ...

Nora

By Franco Ambrosetti

Label: Enja Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Nora's Theme; Morning Song of a Spring Flower; All Blues; Falling in Love; Autumn Leaves; Sweet Journey; It Happens Quietly; After the Rain.

Louise

By Emile Parisien

Label: Enja Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Louise; Madagascar; Memento Part I; Memento Part II; Memento Part III; Il giorno della civetta; Jojo; Jungle Jig; Prayer 4 Peace.

Joe Lovano: Cleveland's Ultimate Jazz Titan

by Matthew Alec
December 20, 2022

Friday, June 24th, 2022, saxophonist Joe Lovano's group Sound Prints (alongside trumpeter and co-leader Dave Douglas) delivered a tour de force performance to spellbound audience members at the historic Mimi Ohio Theatre in Playhouse Square as a part of Cleveland's annual Tri-C JazzFest. Seasoned group interplay between drummer Rudy Royston, bassist Matt Penman, and pianist Leo ...

Franco Ambrosetti: Nora

by Dan McClenaghan
November 14, 2022

Franco Ambrosetti's album is called simply Nora. Short and sweet, four letters, two syllables. But it could easily have been called “Franco Ambrosetti with Strings," as the Swiss flugelhornist & trumpeter follows the orchestral path of alto saxophonist Charlie Parker and his groundbreaking Charlie Parker With Strings (Verve, 1950), trumpeter Chet Baker's Chet Baker with Strings ...

Emile Parisien: Louise

by Neri Pollastri
February 14, 2022

Sebbene da noi un po' ignorato, il sassofonista e compositore Emile Parisien è da tempo uno dei migliori rappresentanti della eccellente scuola francese, nonché tra i più interessanti interpreti internazionali del sax soprano. Noto per le sue collaborazioni con l'estroso fisarmonicista Vincent Peirani e con il pianista italiano residente a Parigi Roberto Negro, presente pure in ...

Sparks

January 12, 2022

Album: Sparks
By Pasquale Stafano
Label: Enja Records
Released: 2021
Duration: 08:09

Pasquale Stafano: Sparks

by Mike Jurkovic
January 8, 2022

Funny how it seems to be that we're forever catching up to jazz no matter how astute or socially notified we believe ourselves to be. Case in point is Sparks, pianist Pasquale Stafano's stylistic and creative balancing act. Released in the pre-omicron haze of September 2021, Sparks delivers more and more as one surrenders ...

Dialogues

Label: Enja Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: Tribal Dance; Kabir; Pajdushka; Silence; Dialogues; Rabou-Abou-Kabou; Bird Song; Intimacy.