Enrico Pieranunzi

Italian Enrico Pieranunzi is a poet of the piano, one of the great storytellers of European jazz, whose musical embrace is warm and wide, blurring the lines between jazz and classical.

His meeting here with a rising star of the younger generation, Treviso-born guitarist Federico Casagrande, is an understated gem of European “chamber” jazz, a set of (mostly brief) originals, studies in form and colour which hover on the edge of a kind of joyous melancholy.

Piano and guitar remains an unusual combination in jazz, the two instruments inhabiting a similar space, but neither here falls back on the standard soloist or accompanist roles.

The younger man’s bell-like acoustic guitar weaves in and out of Pieranunzi’s singing lines and lush harmonies, creating a holistic sound that is fresh and timeless.

PERSONNEL:

• Enrico Pieranunzi - (piano)
• Federico Casagrande - (acoustic guitar)

Recorded in Cavalicco 12, 13, 14 November 2014

TRACKS:

• 01. Anne Blomster Sang
• 02. Periph
• 03. Sector 1
• 04. Clear
• 05. Dangerous Paths
• 06. Within The House Of Night
• 07. No-nonsense
• 08. Beija Flor
• 09. Disclosure
• 10. Sector 2
• 11. Charlie Haden