Enzo Favata

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Enzo Favata (born November 17, 1956 in Alghero ) is an Italian jazz musician ( tenor and sopranino saxophone , bass clarinet , composition ). He also plays ethnic wind instruments from Sardinia .

Live and act

Favata initially played traditional music. Curiosity brought him to jazz and eventually to experimenting with electronic music and composing film music. In 1983 he started playing in traditional jazz bands. In 1988 he founded a quartet that was oriented towards modern jazz and made its debut at the Sant'Anna Arresi Jazz Festival. In his Jana project , which he started in 1992, he increasingly mixed jazz with ethnic elements from different parts of the world. In addition, he developed another project with guitarist Marcello Peghin and percussionist Roberto Pellegrini: Tangram Trio , an experimental group in the field of contemporary jazz and the avant-garde, between minimalism, noise music and underground.

1995 began the collaboration with the label Robi Droli, with the Islà was released; this album was created together with the guitarist Marcello Peghin, the tablista Federico Sanesi and Riccardo Tesi on the diatonic accordion . Later he also worked with Dino Saluzzi , also with Mulatu Astatke , Trilok Gurtu , Enrico Rava , the Art Ensemble of Chicago , Omar Sosa , Django Bates , Miroslav Vitouš , Dave Liebman , Anja Lechner , Lester Bowie , Flavio Boltro , Michel Marre and the Metropolis Orkest .

Since 1993 Favata has also become known as the composer of soundtracks that he wrote for cinema and theater, radio and television. First the music for the feature film ... con amore Fabia by Maria Teresa Camoglio , then for Antonello Grimaldi's The Sky is Ever Bluer .

His most famous work is Voyage en Sardaigne , which was published in 1998 on the label of the left newspaper Il Manifesto and was interpreted by 32 musicians, including the most important players in Sardinian folk music, and was also performed at the Frankfurt Book Fair . Atlantico followed , a journey that begins in Sardinia and crosses the ocean in search of points of contact with Argentine music.

Favata has been director of the Musica sulle Bocche festival since 2001 , which takes place every summer in Santa Teresa di Gallura with international guests.

Discographic notes

  • 1987 - Tangos de La Tardor (LMJ) with DD Band
  • 1991 - Frammenti (autoprodotto) with Zurru
  • 1992 - Jana (Il ponte sonoro)
  • 1995 - Islà (CGD)
  • 1997 - Ajò (Robi Droli) quartet with Dino Saluzzi
  • 1998 - Voyage en Sardaigne (Robi Droli / Il manifesto)
  • 1999 - Atlantico - (Il Manifesto)
  • 2001 - Boghes and Voices ( Harmonia Mundi )
  • 2003 - Enzo Favata Quintetto e Tenores di Bitti Made in Sardinia (CCn'c Records / Il manifesto)
  • 2004 - Crossing (IRD)
  • 2005 - No Man's Land (Sixelectrix / Splasch Records)
  • 2007 - Enzo Favata tentetto feat. Tenores di Bitti The New Village (Il Manifesto)
  • 2008 - Jeux d'enfant (Comar 23)
  • 2018 - Inner Roads (Jazzit Records, 2018)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b entry (jazzitalia.net)
  2. ↑ a b c biography (WOMEX)
personal data
SURNAME Favata, Enzo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian jazz musician (saxophone, bass clarinet, composition)
DATE OF BIRTH 17th November 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Alghero