Enrico Pieranunzi
Enrico Pieranunzi was born in Rome in 1949 and has for many years been among the most significant and well-known protagonists of the international jazz scene. A pianist, composer, and arranger, he has recorded more than 70 albums under his own name, ranging from piano solo to trio, from duo to quintet. He has collaborated, either live or in the studio, with Chet Baker, Lee Konitz, Paul Motian, Charlie Haden, Chris Potter, Marc Johnson, and Joey Baron.
Pieranunzi has been named Artist of the Year three times by the Musica Jazz magazine critics’ poll (in 1989, 2003, 2008). He also won the French Django d’Or prize as “Best European Musician” in 1997 and the German Echo Jazz Award in 2014 as “Best International Keyboard Artist”.
Pieranunzi has performed his music all over the world in the most prestigious international festivals, from Montréal to Copenhagen and Buenos Aires, from Berlin and Madrid to Tokyo, Rio de Janeiro and Beijing. For the past ten years, he has been playing more and more in the USA, and has taken part in the San Francisco and Spoleto (Charleston, South Carolina) festivals.
He has also been regularly featured in the most important New York clubs, especially the Village Vanguard, where in July 2010 he recorded the album Live at the Village Vanguard with Marc Johnson and Paul Motian.
This is the first album ever recorded by an Italian musician (and one of the very few by European musicians) in the legendary diamond shaped 7th Avenue venue. A second Live at the Village Vanguard, recorded in 2015 with Donny McCaslin, Scott Colley and Clarence Penn, will be released at the end of 2016. Enrico Pieranunzi has composed over 300 pieces, many of which have become standards performed and recorded by musicians all over the world (Night Bird, Don’t Forget the Poet, Fellini’s Waltz).
“Pieranunzi can swing – crisply and surely. But in those tempos, he remains his lyrical self. His music sings”
(Nat Hentoff, 1990)
“Enrico Pieranunzi breathes new life into contemporary jazz”
(Ray Spencer, Jazz Journal International, 1992)
“Remember the name, me, get lost in the music”
(Josef Woodard, Jazz Times, 2000)
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Chet Remembered
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Jazz - Released by Challenge Records on Jun 2, 2023
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Blues & Bach - the Music of John Lewis
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Jazz - Released by Challenge Records on Jan 13, 2023
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Traveller's Ways
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Jazz - Released by Challenge Records on Feb 2, 2024
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Suite for Siena
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The Heart Of The Ballad
Jazz - Released by CHET BAKER ESTATE on Mar 1, 1988
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Entropy
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Jazz - Released by Parco della Musica Records on Mar 31, 2023
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Something Tomorrow
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Jazz - Released by Storyville Records on May 6, 2022
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Ménage à trois
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Contemporary Jazz - Released by Bonsaï Music on Oct 21, 2016
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Monsieur Claude (A Travel with Claude Debussy)
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Contemporary Jazz - Released by Bonsaï Music on Mar 23, 2018
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Voyage in Time
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Jazz - Released by Challenge Records on Sep 2, 2022
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Common View
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Jazz - Released by Challenge Records on Feb 7, 2020
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Live At The Village Vanguard (Live)
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Jazz - Released by CAM JAZZ on Mar 12, 2013
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Live in Paris (Live)
Jazz - Released by Baseline Jazz on Jan 1, 2007
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Ballads
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Contemporary Jazz - Released by CAM JAZZ on Apr 21, 2006
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Play Morricone 1 & 2
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