Enrico Pieranunzi, Marc Johnson, Joey Baron

Deep Down puts the pianist Enrico Pieranunzi in a trio with bassist Marc Johnson and drummer Joey Baron, taped in Milan in February 1986 and released by Soul Note the following year. It is a piano trio record in the lineage of Bill Evans, three players sharing the foreground rather than a pianist with accompanists, and Pieranunzi makes the debt explicit in the closing piece, his own Evans Remembered. Standards and less familiar tunes alternate across nine tracks and about 44 minutes.

The sessions took place on 26 and 27 February 1986 at Barigozzi Studio, with Giancarlo Barigozzi engineering and the mix done there on 14 April. Giovanni Bonandrini produced, and Nat Hentoff wrote the liner notes. Don't Forget The Poet opens the record, and the programme moves through Ev'rything I Love, We'll Be Together Again, Someday My Prince Will Come and Our Romance before the second half turns to Dee Song, TTT (Twelve Tone Tune) and Antigny. Reviewing a 2010 box of Pieranunzi's Soul Note albums in The Irish Times, Ray Comiskey wrote that this record placed the pianist in "one of the best trios in jazz". He named its model as "the interactive democracy of the Bill Evans Trio" and heard the liberating effect of Evans clearly in Pieranunzi's playing.

This CD is SNGG001-2 in the Golden Gems series of CAM Jazz, issued on Soul Note in November 2016 with remastered audio, in a card Digifile with the original colour booklet. The album first came out in 1987 as SN 1121.