On November 15th, composer and pianist Chris Enright will open the Jazz at the Gardner series with a performance at 7pm. We talked with Chris recently about his music.
Tell us a little about the music you’ll be playing. Any stories behind how any of these tunes came into being?
We’ll be playing at least one movement from my “Blessed Are The Forgetful” suite. It was originally an extended composition project I had to do while I was at Berklee.
I had a hard time getting rolling, and found most of the writing for the project to be too academic. If you spend enough time studying music, it’s pretty easy to over-think things and micromanage a piece. At the time, I was working for one of my former music teachers, Ran Blake, who often writes pieces inspired by various Hitchcock films. So I decided to write a suite inspired by one of my favorite films, “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.” It really opened things up for me and I started fusing the technique I’d gained from Berklee, with my own compositional voice. I use this technique with a lot of my pieces.
