{{Infobox album | name = Songways | type = Album | artist = Stefano Battaglia Trio | cover = Songways.jpg|border=yes | alt = | released = March 5, 2013 | recorded = April 2012 | venue = | studio = Auditorio Radiotelevisione Svizzera<br>Lugano, Switzerland | genre = Jazz | length = 78:03 | label = ECM<br>{{small|ECM 2286}} | producer = Manfred Eicher | chronology = Stefano Battaglia | prev_title = The River of Anyder | prev_year = 2011 | next_title = | next_year = }}
'''''Songways''''' is an album by the Stefano Battaglia Trio, featuring Battaglia on piano Salvatore Maiore on bass and Roberto Dani on percussion, recorded in April 2012 and released on ECM the following year.<ref name="ECM discography">[http://www.ecmrecords.com/Catalogue/ECM/2200/2286.php ECM discography] accessed December 17, 2013</ref>
==Reception== {{Album ratings | rev1 = AllMusic | rev1Score = {{rating|4|5}}<ref name="Allmusic"/> | rev2 = ''PopMatters'' | rev2Score = {{rating|9|10}}<ref name="PopMatters"/>}}
The AllMusic review by Thom Jurek awarded the album 4 stars stating "''Songways'' is European jazz rooted deep in the Italian tradition: it wears both its classicism and post-vanguard lyricism plainly, in the process creating a deft, instinctive, and highly expressionistic music."<ref name="Allmusic">Jurek, T. [http://www.allmusic.com/album/songways-mw0002468965 Allmusic Review] accessed December 17, 2013</ref>
The PopMatters review by John Garratt stated "''Songways'' is amorphously terrific. It may not be a jazz or classical release, but it’s one of 2013’s best so far."<ref name="PopMatters">Garratt, J. [http://www.popmatters.com/review/169319-stefano-battaglia-trio-songways/ PopMatters Review] March 21, 2013</ref>
The All About Jazz review by John Kelman said that "''Songways'' capitalizes on the strength of a trio that's been honing its craft in multiple contexts for eight years, finding beauty in every nook and cranny even as it eschews the obvious, and continues to hone its profoundly lyrical language with music that paints vivid pictures and evokes cinematic landscapes, encouraging the imagination to run where it will."<ref>Kelman, J. [https://www.allaboutjazz.com/songways-stefano-battaglia-ecm-records-review-by-john-kelman ''Songways'' Review] ''All About Jazz'', March 10, 2013</ref>
The ''JazzTimes'' review by Thomas Conrad said "''Songways'' is one of the prettiest piano trio albums of the new millennium... In jazz, “pretty” is often an adjective that damns with faint praise. Battaglia's music is pretty but neither shallow nor soft."<ref>Conrad T. [http://jazztimes.com/articles/85820-songways-stefano-battaglia ''Songways'' Review] ''JazzTimes'', May 12, 2013</ref>
==Track listing== ''All compositions by Stefano Battaglia'' # "Euphonia Elegy" - 12:11 # "Ismaro" - 5:09 # "Vondervotteimittis" - 7:22 # "Armonia" - 13:50 # "Mildendo Wide Song" - 6:08 # "Monte Analogo" - 6:51 # "Abdias" - 3:40 # "Songways" - 8:42 # "Perla" - 5:17 # "Babel Hymn" - 8:52
==Personnel== * Stefano Battaglia — piano * Salvatore Maiore — double bass * Roberto Dani — percussion
==References== {{reflist}} {{Stefano Battaglia}} {{Authority control}}
Category:ECM Records albums Category:Stefano Battaglia albums Category:2013 albums Category:Albums produced by Manfred Eicher