Special Encounter

RE-MASTERED AUDIO and NEW PACKAGING ! This album, originally released in 2005, was re-mastered and repackaged in Digifile cardboard format. It includes the original full-color booklet.

Combining Pieranunzi's piano with bassist Charlie Haden and drummer Paul Motian deserves to be called a special encounter, and the music lives up to the billing. Two standards, My Old Flame and a beautiful You've Changed, show what they, and especially Pieranunzi, can do with the familiar, the third, a lovely Why Did I Choose You?, is less known. But the originals, five by the leader and three by Haden, are performances that delve even deeper into the after-hours atmosphere that suffuses even the medium-up Secret Nights, a probing, restless but compelling example of their collective artistry, and Haden's buoyant Waltz for Ruth. Motian is discretion itself, leaving piano and bass to their joint communion; one track is an exquisite piano-bass duet on Pieranunzi's poignant, melancholy Miradas. (R. Comiskey - The Irish Times)

Two years after having earned public and critic acclaim for the album FELLINIJAZZ, three of them play and record together again. It's really an historical "Special Encounter" among Pieranunzi, Haden and Motian.  They lead us through old Standards, evergreen songs by Haden and new compositions by Pieranunzi.

Listen to this album and lose yourself in Pieranunzi's lyricism, Haden's sound and the magical, unique touch of Paul Motian. Pure elegance and beauty. A masterpiece.

Originally released in 2005

Recorded in March 2003 at Sonic Recording Studio  Recording & mixing engineer Goffredo Gibellini