Craig Enright

Craig Enright is tenor saxophonist and composer living in Stamford, Connecticut, USA. He comes to music later than most. He began teaching himself in while attending Dartmouth college and continued while living in Chicago after graduation. Unable to find a teacher to help him understand the things he was hearing but couldn’t figure on his own and being an outsider to the music community, he gave up after a few years. Then some twelve years later in 2001, while daydreaming of becoming a musician in a Chicago music store, he came across several instructional books by the extraordinary saxophonist Jerry Bergonzi that offered clues to what had seemed like the secrets of jazz improvisation. He bought the books, then went to a pawn shop and bought a tenor and began studying in earnest. Along the way, learning harmony led to composing. Craig has three albums of originals and is working on more. The music is a hybrid of jazz, latin, and funk. As he puts it, “The objective is not to try and prove I’m the new hot tenor player—too many young lions out there for that. The point is to try and compose music that’s accessible to a wide ranging audience while offering something interesting and even challenging for musicians to play and maybe even induce a bit of nostalgia for the listener as well.”