3. Jazz Ex tempore:Workshop Tradition in transition: from traditional Sardenian music to jazz Enzo Favata (Sardenia, Italy)

Enzo Favata

Enzo FavataEnzo Favata is one of the most active and well-known Sardinian musicians. He plays the saxophone and sopranino sax other wind instruments, above all ethnic ones from Sardinia. His research joins the arcane and the modern, experimenting with different languages and musical cultures.
After having played traditional jazz for some years, 1992. he make the Jana Project - a project which weds ethnic music from other parts of the world with jazz improvisation.
During the same period he developed another project with the guitarist Marcello Peghin and the percussionist Roberto Pellegrini: Tangram Trio, an experimental group in the field of contemporary jazz and vanguard music, halfway between minimalism, noise music and underground. In 1995 this group won a European competition in Poitiers as best improvising group.
Alongside the concert experience was that of musical production for soundtracks working with RAI, radio and television, dance and theatre.
At the start of 1993 he debutted as the composer of soundtracks for cinema, putting his name to the music of a film“With love ….Fabia” by the Italian director Maria Teresa Camoglio. The experience was repeated in 1995 with the film by the director Antonello Grimaldi “The sky is ever bluer” presented at international film festival of Berlin.
1997 saw an important collaboration with a master of the Argentine bandoneon, Dino Saluzzi. This collaboration was recorded on the Cd Ajò. The disc had been placed in the best discs of 1997 according to the World Music Charts Europe