Name: Nora
Brand: Franco Ambrosetti

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ENJA9812

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Limited edition

Release date

2022-12-02

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767522981216

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Franco Ambrosetti

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Jazz

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Enja

Enja Records is a German label that was founded in July 1971 in Munich by jazz fans Horst Weber and Matthias Winckelmann. Initially, the label's distribution was handled by Bellaphon until March 1999, with some releases also being distributed by ECM Records. Since April 2002, Soulfood Music Distribution GmbH has managed the distribution of new releases, while Galileo Music Communication has taken care of the back-catalogue since April 2009. In January 2019, Enja Records' distribution was taken over by Groove Attack.

In 1986, Weber and Winckelmann decided to separate and work individually, resulting in two Enja Records labels: Enja-Horst Weber and Enja-Matthias Winckelmann. However, more recently, the catalogues have reunited under the leadership of Werner Aldinger for both the former ENJA Horst Weber part and the new label Yellow Bird. Aldinger also administers ENJA Records M. Winckelmann.

Enja Records also has an active publishing department called enja European New Jazz Musikverlagsgesellschaft mbH.

All-star group recording led by Swiss trumpeter/composer Franco Ambrosetti and featuring John Scofeld, Scott Colley, Uri Caine and Peter Erskine, plus strings arranged by Alan Broadbent Growing up in Lugano, Switzerland, the son of a pioneering bebop alto saxophonist on the 1940s European jazz scene, a teenaged Franco Ambrosetti came under the sway of his father's heroes - Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie and Clifford Brown. They became his heroes too as the aspiring trumpeter began emulating their blistering chops and visceral abandon. Now, at age 80, Franco is following a different muse. 

After nearly 40 albums as a leader, he has reached a point in his career where caressing each note is more important to him than showcasing chops. "When you're in your 20s, you want to play as fast as you can and as high as you can, like Clifford," he said. "But somewhere after turning 50, then you concentrate on more important things and you try to say something with just a few notes, but the right ones, like Miles Davis did." Franco plays all the right notes in typically elegant fashion on Nora. Backed by an all- world group of pianist Uri Caine, bassist Scott Colley and drummer Peter Erskine, with a guest turn by guitarist John Scofeld, plus Grammy- winning pianist- arranger Alan Broadbent conducting a 22- piece string orchestra, Ambrosetti plumbs the depth of emotion on this program of romantic ballads, delivered with rare intimacy and grace. Possessing a golden tone on fugelhorn, he ruminates and tells stories on each of these melodic gems.

Nora

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