11-03-2021 Jazz'n More Switzerland
"... Recorded back in September 2018 and produced by bassist and composer Jasper Somsen, with whom Pieranunzi has been playing for many years, this album fascinates with a beauty of sound that runs through all eleven of the two musicians' own compositions on the album and that is deeply touching... "
08-03-2021 JazzWise
"It's a record that repays repeated listening, and draws us in to a private world of beauty and exhilaration.
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25-02-2021 Medienhaus Bauer, 6 daily newspapers
"... On "Afterglow" the jazz pianist from Rome meets the Belgian brass player Bert Joris. And his lyrical playing on trumpet and flugelhorn combines in the mostly very soulful dialogues with the fine touch culture of the Italian..."
23-02-2021 Jazzpodium 3 4 2021
"... On the whole, however, the almost puristic harmony of trumpet and piano is dominated by cantabile melodies, silky brilliance, nuanced dynamics and the deliberately cultivated principle of reduction to the core...."
19-02-2021 The Guardian
"How they do it, how much is composition and how much inspiration of the moment, I can only guess. But it all hangs together quite brilliantly.
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18-02-2021 Radio1
"On three parts of the album we hardly knew where we were going. Putting something like that on the record was really new to me. - Bert Joris
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15-02-2021 Jazz Journal
"On Afterglow, Pieranunzi is featured with Belgian trumpeter, composer and arranger Bert Joris, in one of his most rewarding recent albums.
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10-02-2021 Fono Forum
"... Both are united by the harmonically rich, melodically imaginative and often cantabile fluency of Pieranunzi's delicate piano playing, which meanders through space and time with serene composure. What Bert Joris smoothly shines over with delicately vibrating intensity..."
09-02-2021 Bayerischer Rundfunk, talk
" ... Belgian trumpeter Bert Joris and Italian pianist Enrico Pieranunzi, two top European jazz musicians, engage in an uncompromising, intense and thoroughly entrancing dialogue on their new album "Afterglow"...
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08-02-2021 JazzRadar
"Joy and melancholy alternate, but it is mainly those countless sensitive moments that can touch your soul
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06-02-2021 Concerto, Austria
"... So indulgent yet natural is Enrico Pieranunzi's edgeless piano playing united with the expressive blowing of Belgian trumpeter Bert Joris..."
04-02-2021 WDR, CD of the Week
"... And when the Belgian trumpeter Bert Joris joins Pieranunzi, one notices immediately that the two speak the same musical language. In "People Change" piano and trumpet interweave, merge, dissolve again, become one, become a swaying respite."
02-02-2021 The Morning Star
"There’s nothing too taxing here, which is all part of the album’s charm. And in our dark and difficult times, Afterglow’s lightness and contemplative mood is a welcome comfort."
02-02-2021 Kultkomplott
"... Having recorded well over 70 albums to date, the Roman now adds duo recordings whose simplicity and lyricism impress... "Afterglow" radiates across genres due to Bert Jori's trumpet playing, developing its elegance on the basis of deepening interpersonal improvisations...."
01-02-2021 Audio 03 2021
"... Belgian trumpeter Bert Joris and Italian pianist Enrico Pieranunzi communicated at the September 2018 session as sensitively as only soulmates can. Who leads? Who lets himself be led?..."
26-01-2021 Jazz halo
"... Without rhythmic support, a trumpet-piano duo can only function through total complicity, a real empathy in terms of melodic lyricism (Siren's lounge, Afterglow), as well as an innate sense of rhythm (Five plus five). This is the case here with two musicians at the peak of their art."
25-01-2021 Jazzthing
"... In a duo with Belgian trumpeter Bert Joris, Pieranunzi, who has been washed with all the waters of impressionism and modern jazz, shows his experimental side..."
24-01-2021 Jazzenzo
"The album "Afterglow" breathes fun and manages to touch the listener's heart without any musical frills.
The alternation between slow and rhythmic compositions is almost ideal.
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22-01-2021 Na Dann
"A mostly improvised bundle of compositions of incredible beauty is delivered by pianist ENRICO PIERANUNZI and trumpeter BERT JORIS with their "Afterglow"..."
20-01-2021 Nieuwsblad
"Siren’s lounge, the opener of this duo recording with trumpet player Bert Joris, is such a beautiful cinematic piece and the title piece also has a remarkably modest force
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18-01-2021 London Jazz News
"Indeed, humanity and empathy shine through in this fine recording – a privilege to closely listen in on the craft of Enrico Pieranunzi and Bert Joris."
15-01-2021 Midwestrecord
"Take a killer jazz piano man, add a trumpeter that knows what to add and when, roll tape and let good things happen. One of those totally amazing albums where so little is really so much..."
11-01-2021 Musikansich
"... Especially beautiful are songs like "Cradle Song For Mattia", where piano and horn shape the melody in unison and furthermore throw the balls to each other within short improvisation passages."
09-01-2021 JazzHalo
""Afterglow" captivates for its outspoken musicality and an infectious good feeling, which seems to blossom just at the right time as an afterglow of hope for better times
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29-12-2020 All about Jazz
"Less is often more, and Afterglow is a good example of that. Strong tunes, burnished performances, clean audio quality. A feelgood album with which to approach the new year."
Enrico Pieranunzi (artist)