Results for "Enja Records"

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 ...

Sone Ka-la 2: Odyssey

Label: Enja Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: Pa Gade; Mende; Konk A Lambi; Ron Jack; Love Will Win; Zero Gravity; Ami Bongo; First Light; New Padjanbel; Tande.

Dialogues

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

Eight Cylinder Bigband

By Matthias Bublath

Label: Enja Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: Bigband Intro Joint; Matight Intro; Nice Green Bo; Eight Cylinder; Gospel Song; Home Cookin'; Return to the Source; Dump the Goose; Sad Belt; Mr. Scales; Outro Blow; Bolero.

Sparks

By Pasquale Stafano

Label: Enja Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: Sparks; Three Days Snow; Night Market; Remembrance; Countdown; Mirror of Soul; Clocks; The Roller Coaster.

Weavers

By Makiko Hirabayashi

Label: Enja Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: 1.Magnolia 2.Spring 2000 3.Flip 4.Winter Landscape In Black&White 5.Workers' Song 6.Citybuzz 7.Embraceable Night 8.Crane Dance 9.Vashkar

Pasquale Stafano: Sparks

by Ian Patterson
November 19, 2021

Italian pianist Pasquale Stafano is perhaps best known for the Nuevo Tango Ensemble which he co-founded in 1999 with bandoneonist Gianni Iorio, with whom he has also released a couple of fine duo albums, namely the tango-inspired Nocturno (Enja Records, 2017) and Mediterranean Tales (Enja Records, 2020). The centenary of Astor Piazzolla's birth might have seemed ...

Luciano Biondini, Stefano Maurizi, Mirco Mariottini: Dialogues

by Neri Pollastri
September 20, 2021

Frutto dell'interazione di un trio dalla strumentazione tanto singolare, quanto affascinante, questo Dialogues raccoglie composizioni diverse per autori e ispirazione, accomunate tuttavia dal lirismo evocativo e dalla narratività. Ne sono protagonisti il pianista Stefano Maurizi, il fisarmonicista Luciano Biondini e il clarinettista Mirco Mariottini, che da un paio d'anni hanno messo a punto questa ...

Jacques Schwarz-Bart: Sone Ka-la 2: Odyssey

by Dan McClenaghan
May 10, 2021

The French-Jewish-Guadeloupean saxophonist Jacques Schwarz-Bart--a background and name like that has world music written all over it--presented his Sone Ka-La (Emarcy) in 2007, after stints with D'Angelo's Voodoo touring band, Roy Hargrove's Crisol and Rh Factor, Erykah Badu, Meshell Ndegeocello, all influences that helped him craft a hybridization of Afro-Caribbean rhythms and melodies inspired by Gwoka ...

Mediterranean Tales

By Pasquale Stafano

Label: Enja Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: Secret Sun Dance; Landscapes; Nature; The Dreamer; The day is gone; Chacarera gringa.