Enrico Pieranunzi, Michele Polga, Thomas Fonnesbaek & Mauro Beggio
PRE-ORDER: This item will be shipped with the aim to deliver on release day.
Release Date: 03 April 2026
Label: Red Records
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 8054154651009
Genres: Jazz Contemporary
Description
Brought together by virtuoso award-winning Italian pianist Enrico Pieranunzi, a musician who famously combines classical techniques with jazz improvisation, this quartet featuring saxophonist Michele Polga, bassist Thomas Fonnesbaek and drummer Mauro Beggio is a unified group with an equally unified sound - a quartet with no appointed leader.
Pieranunzi, Polga, Fonnesbaek, and Beggio have each absorbed, in their own way, stylistic elements layered through tradition, as well as more recent, US-driven sounds, which they tailor seamlessly throughout the tracks on Perspectives, with a particularly meticulous focus on sound design. The result in headphones is the mixing worthy of a top tier engineer (just listen to Beggio's inspired solo on 'Back and Forth' to catch even the last few hertz of cymbals floating in space), it's also because these musicians have trained their ears to the most subtle acoustic possibilities of their instruments, placing them at the service of the music with great naturalness and sincerity. This is a quartet - not a soloist's project with skilled colleagues - where the absence of any "leader mentality" becomes the key to exploring new sonic territory.
Enrico Pieranunzi: piano
Michele Polga: tenor saxophone
Thomas Fonnesbaek: bass
Mauro Beggio: drums
Recorded at Art Music Studio Recordings, Vicenza, Italy, February 2025.
Mixed by Enrico Pieranunzi and Mauro Beggio.
Tracklisting
Art Pepper
Gato Barbieri
Gato Barbieri
Johnny Dyani
Joe Henderson
Gerry Mulligan
Nexus
Cedar Walton Trio
Andy Emler
Jean-Marie Machado
Francesco Zampini
Enrico Pieranunzi, Michele Polga, Thomas Fonnesbaek & Mauro Beggio
Kevin Figes
Hanna Paulsberg Concept & Elin Rosseland
Chris Potter
Tom Avgenicos feat. Delay 45 & Ensemble Apex
