Enrico Pieranunzi - Rosario Giuliani (english)

Music written for the cinema, of which Ennio Morricone is undisputed master, describes emotions more than any other; it is music which must reveal more than the pictures already convey and it must tell or indicate hidden facets of the story. Jazz, on the other hand, is more alive than any other type of music and enriched by the proficiency of musicians to develp new themes based on pre-existing ones; jazz is the creation of new stories, using earlier ones as its starting point.

So a concert by two great jazz musicians, dedicated to the music of Ennio Morricone, cannot help but promise a plethora of stories, some of which are formed by images which have already become part of the collective imagination. In a way, it’s as if many song-stories were to be spread among the public and each person were to whisper a new one in a different ear.

Enrico Pieranunzi

Enrico pieranunzi, a pianist with a polished touch and an exceptional composer, is a legendary figure of Italian jazz, one of the few to have played with musicians of the calibre of Chet Baker, Jim Hall, Kenny Clarke, Lee Konitz, Frank Rosolino, Phil Woods, Charlie Haden, Art Farmer, Billy Higgins and the only European musician to have two compositions included in the jazz “bible”: the New Real Book II.

As a classically trained pianist who has always been passionate about jazz, it has been the fusion of these two spirits which has given his work ever increasing depth to the point of creating his own personal language, which is conscious of his European roots and enriched by enormous knowledge of world-wide contemporary music, giving him a very prominent position in the jazz world.

He has made guest appearances at the major jazz festivals in Italy, Europe, Canada and the United States, where he also recorded the CD “The night gone by” with Marc Johnson and Paul Motian.

In 1989 he was declared the Best Italian Musician by the journal Musica Jazz; he was acclaimed as one of the three foremost European musicians by l’Academie du Jazz in 1993. Eventually, in 1997, he received the Django d’Or for the Best European musician.

Rosario Giuliani

The saxophonist Rosario Giuliani’s professional career began with recording sound tracks for internationally renowned musicians: Ennio Morricone, Luis Bacalov, Nicola Piovani, Mikis Theodorakis, Ritz Ortolani Armando Trovajoli.

In jazz circles he collaborates with such prestigious artists as Kenny Wheeler, Cedar Walton, Cameron Brown, Donald Harrison, Joe Locke, Phil Woods, Enrico Rava, Franco D’Andrea, Giovanni Tommaso, Roberto Gatto, Antonio Faraò. A regular guest artist at the major Italian and European jazz festivals he has also taken part in numerous shows for the major Italian networks and the CD recordings “Homenaje” (the Six Sax group, with two exceptional guest artists, Bob Mintzer and Randy Brecker), and “L’Incontro” with the Bassi-Giuliani Quintet”. In 1996 he was awarded the “Massimo Urbani” prize at Urbisaglia for Best Alto Sax and in 1997 he won the Best Soloist and Best Group with his quartet at the “Europ Jazz Contest” in Brussels.