About this Track
- Added on 29 November 2024
- Album Christmas Notes
- Year of creation 2008
- Tags dreamy and distorted, christmas, solopiano
- 8 plays
- 98 downloads
Credits
In 2007 Manuel Engel has received a commission to create a Christmas album.
Thereafter Engel produced his first piano solo album – Christmas Notes and its arrangements are influenced by Steve Reich, Keith Jarrett, Radiohead, Alexander Scriabin, Paul Bley, Dimitry Shostakovich, John Cage and Stereolab. Special thanks to Santa Claus!
The album has been announced as a “Top 10 Christmas Jazz Recordings for 2008“ :
1. Verve Remixed Christmas (Verve)
2. A Night Before Christmas, Spyro Gyra (Heads Up)
3. Christmas With My Friends II, Nils Landgren (ACT)
4. Christmas Notes, Manuel Engel, (Metonic)
5. Christmas, Al Jarreau (Rhino)
6. What A Night! Harry Connick Jr (Columbia)
7. A Swingin’ Christmas (Columbia)
8. A Jazz and Blues Christmas (Putumayo)
9. Deck the Halls: A Smooth Jazz Christmas (Lifestyles)
10. New Christmas, Pamela Hines (Spicerack)
John Stevenson – ejazznews.com
Tom Barlow, BBC/Jazzwise Magazine
Engel has a knack for crafting elegant, cinematic pieces of music. And it is an ability he demonstrates splendidly on ME 3 – a constantly shifting improvised...