Enrico Rava

Enrico Rava – Renaissance (2002) [Japan 2016] SACD ISO + Hi-Res FLAC

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Enrico Rava is a jazz trumpeter and arguably one of the best known Italian jazz musicians. In the 1970s and 1980s he worked with Pat Metheny, Michel Petrucciani, John Abercrombie, Joe Henderson, Richard Galliano, Miroslav Vitouš, Andrea Centazzo, Joe Lovano, Gil Evans and Cecil Taylor. He has also worked with Carla Bley, Lee Konitz, Jeanne Lee, Paul Motian, and Roswell Rudd. Chiefly an exponent of bebop jazz, Rava has also played in avant-garde jazz settings.

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Enrico Rava – Italian Ballads (1996) [Japan 2017] SACD ISO + DSF DSD64 + Hi-Res FLAC

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Enrico Rava is a jazz trumpeter and arguably one of the best known Italian jazz musicians. He started on trombone, then changed to the trumpet after hearing Miles Davis. In the 1970s and 1980s he worked with Pat Metheny, Michel Petrucciani, John Abercrombie, Joe Henderson, Richard Galliano, Miroslav Vitouš, Andrea Centazzo, Joe Lovano, Gil Evans and Cecil Taylor. Chiefly an exponent of bebop jazz, Rava has also played in avant-garde jazz settings.

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Enrico Rava – Ah (1980/2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · January 10, 2023 · Comments off

Self-taught Trieste-born trumpeter Enrico Rava is the grand master of Italian jazz. Originally a Dixieland trombonist, he switched to trumpet in his teens after hearing Miles Davis. In 1967, he moved to New York (“where my idols were, all the people I wanted to meet”), and found his musical direction, playing with Roswell Rudd, Cecil Taylor, Charlie Haden, Carla Bley and the Jazz Composer’s Orchestra among others.

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Enrico Rava & Joe Lovano – Roma (Live) (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

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Recorded live at Rome’s Auditorium Parco della Musica last November, this album documents the meeting of the doyen of Italian jazz, Enrico Rava, with Joe Lovano, masterful US tenorist of Sicilian heritage. Rava and Lovano front a spirited quintet that includes lyrical pianist Giovanni Guidi, dynamic drummer Gerald Cleaver and rising star bassist Dezron Douglas (who makes his ECM debut here). Well-loved tunes by the two bandleaders form the core of the programme, including Enrico’s intricate “Interiors” and “Secrets” and Joe’s vigorous Texas blues “Forth Worth”, which recalls the energies of Ornette and Dewey Redman. The programme concludes with an extended and powerful medley that roams across the history of modern jazz as it gathers together Lovano’s “Drum Song”, John Coltrane’s “Spiritual” and the standard tune “Over The Rainbow”.

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Enrico Rava – Opening Night (1982/2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Released in June 1982, Opening Night is a rare album by Enrico Rava that has resurfaced (only in digital formats!) in 2019 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the label ECM. Recorded in December 1981 with double bassist Furio Di Castri, drummer Aldo Romano and forgotten pianist Franco D’Andrea, this is one of the records on Manfred Eicher’s label that was not produced by Eicher. When Thomas Stöwsand recorded the album at the Tonstudio Bauer studio in Ludwigsburg, the Italian trumpeter was already 43 years old and had six albums to his name. His free years were long gone and he continued on this record with a rather celebratory and melodic neo-hard bop, throughout which his band members’ enjoyment is palpable. Rava’s quartet is taken on an emotional rollercoaster that, without revolutionizing the genre, still showcases a total complicity which is well worth rediscovering. – Max Dembo

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Enrico Rava, The Parco della Musica Jazz Lab – Rava On the Dance Floor (Live at the Rome Auditorium) (2012/2016) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

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This live album breaks with Enrico Rava’s own traditions. In his ECM albums, all the way back to 1974’s The Pilgrim And The Stars, Rava has set his own compositions in the foreground. Not this time. Nor does he pay tribute to aspects of jazz history. Instead, on Rava On The Dance Floor the great Italian trumpeter enthusiastically turns his attention to the musical universe of the late Michael Jackson. And in this unexpected context, drawing also upon the energy of the Parco della Musica Jazz Lab band, he delivers impassioned and extroverted trumpet playing.

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Enrico Rava – New York Days (2009) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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A new transatlantic quintet headed by Italian trumpeter Rava, recorded in New York in 2008 and a first ECM appearance for US tenorist Mark Turner, whose distilled, lean sound references Coltrane, Warne Marsh, Wayne Shorter and others. Turner’s searching, analytical tone is in marked contrast to Enrico’s lyrical flourishes, but the two make a fascinating pairing – especially with the resolutely musical pianist Stefano Bollani finding points of contact, and making his own statements. Add in the gifted bassist Larry Grenadier (last heard on ECM with Charles Lloyd) and that most unpredictable of all drummers, Paul Motian, and you have here a truly remarkable band.

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Enrico Rava – Edizione Speciale (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

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Enregistré le 18 août 2019 sur la scène du festival Jazz Middelheim d’Anvers en Belgique, ce live est un nouveau tour de force d’Enrico Rava, doyen des virtuoses transalpins. Entre les célébrations de son 80e anniversaire et celles du demi-siècle du label ECM dont il est pensionnaire depuis les années 70, le trompettiste de Trieste est ici entouré des fidèles de son quartet (Francesco Diodati à la guitare, Gabriele Evangelista à la contrebasse et Enrico Morello à la batterie) et de deux renforts de choc : le saxophoniste Francesco Bearzatti et le pianiste Giovanni Guidi. Tous bien sûr fortement inspirés par la musique du maître. Mais cette facette « mentor » n’anesthésie jamais le jazz qui résonne sur cette Edizione Speciale. Il y a un enthousiasme, une énergie et une liberté de ton total, ce qui a finalement toujours été la philosophie d’Enrico Rava. « Je leur laisse énormément de liberté car je leur fais confiance. Je dois leur faire confiance. Ils doivent me faire confiance. Et là tout est possible. » Ce concert de 2019 n’est que ça ! Liberté et confiance au profit du style Rava, à savoir ce lien solide avec la tradition jazz (de la Nouvelle-Orléans à Ornette Coleman) mêlé à une touche personnelle qui donne une grande importance à la mélodie. Sans oublier des flashs venus du répertoire classique, de la musique populaire italienne mais aussi d’Amérique du Sud (« Ma seconde maison ») avec le tango et la musique brésilienne. Mention spéciale à Francesco Diodati dont le jeu de guitare électrique vient régulièrement pimenter ce beau torrent de notes.

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Enrico Rava, Fred Hersch – The Song Is You (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Their collaboration has been hailed as a summit meeting of two jazz masters – Enrico Rava, trumpeter from Trieste, and Fred Hersch, pianist from Cincinatti, share a deep affection for the tradition and a profound sense for melodic invention.

In this recording, with flugelhorn and piano glowing in the superb acoustic of the Lugano studio, Rava and Hersch explore some much-loved standards: Jerome Kern’s “The Song Is You”, Thelonious Monk’s “Mysterioso” and “‘Round Midnight”, Jobim’s “Retrato em Branco e Preto”, and George Bassman’s “I’m Getting Sentimental Over You”. They also play their own tunes, Fred’s “Child’s Song” and Enrico’s “The Trial”, and improvise freely together.

Enrico Rava has been an ECM artist for almost fifty years. The Song Is You is Fred Hersch’s first for the label. The album was recorded at Auditorio Stelio Molo RSI in November 2021, and produced by Manfred Eicher.

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