Enrico Rava

[tonym]

Just looking at the new ECM website and it is profiling a new release by said trumpeter with his working quintet.

New Enrico Rava

Date is possibly March 11th.

cheers, tonym.

[A Lark Ascending]

Looks good.

Stefano Bollani is a wonderful pianist.

Rava is a prolific recorder. He seems to have new releases coming out every other month. Check him in the search engine at Jazzos.com. This one will hopefully reach a wider audience.

I'd strongly recommend two discs from concerts in Montreal a few years back on Label Bleu. One is a disc of Miles tunes which is absolutely electric (in an acoustic sense). The other a gorgeous CD of duets with Bollani.

[tonym]

Thanks Bev. I was looking out for that Miles live CD when it came out. Didn't see it for the usual reasons (Borders too intent on stocking 20+ copies of Lee Ritenour's Greatest Hits etc.). Didn't buy online for the usual reasons (credit card woes!).

BTW I noticed Stanko's new album in HMV for £14.99 but if you are attending one of the gigs (I can't remember if you posted whether you are) you may see it cheaper there.

cheers, tonym

[A Lark Ascending]

Hi Tony,

The new Stanko can be got online from HMV for 9.99 at present...credit card woes permitting!

I was toying with going to see him in Brum yesterday but work overtook. Saw him last year at Cheltenham. Very, very good.

The Rava Miles disc is available from Crazy Jazz for £14.95 - they take cheques!

http://www.crazyjazz.co.uk/catalogue/R01.htm

You might also consider this one too:

"La Dolce Vita" - Rava, Bollani etc playing Italian film scores.

Which makes a nice companion to this piano trio playing Morricone:

Of which there is a second volume just out that I've not heard yet.

Enrico Pieranunzi is one of my favourite contemporary pianists.

Edited February 22, 2004 by Bev Stapleton

[Pete C]

I love Rava, and the band was great at the Blue Note recently. I was at the Miles tribute in Montreal, and frankly I find that and the Chet project the least interesting of his work. I was also at the duet show in Montreal, and that was amazing.

[A Lark Ascending]

I've not heard the Chet Baker. I played the Miles again today and just love it.

Ordered this one from jazzos.com today:

2004

Enrico Rava - trumpet

John Abercrombie - guitar

Salvatore Bonafede - piano

Ben Street - double bass

Clarence Penn - drums

guests:

Ralph Towner - guitar

Michele Rabbia - percussion

As I say, prolific.

[Pete C]

Hey, that last one sounds great. I love the earlier Rava ECMs with Abercrombie.

[A Lark Ascending]

I only know 'The Pilgrim and the Stars' from that time. I need to work backwards.

He's also with Abercrombie and Bollani on this one:

Enrico Rava - trumpet, fluegelhorn

Gianluca Petrella - trombone

John Abercrombie - guitar

Stefano Bollani - piano

Jesper Bodilsen

Morten Lund - drums

It's a 2002 date though it may have only got out in the UK quite recently. I saw it in London a week or so back.

Gianluca Petrella is also on the forthcoming ECM. He has a nice freebopish date called 'X-Ray' on Jazzos.com's own Auland label:

Gianluca Petrella - trombone

Javier Girotto - baritone sax (quena and soprano sax on # 11)

Paul Rogers - 5 string double bass

Francesco Sotgiu - drums

[alankin]

Enrico Rava Quintet - Easy Living (ECM) Mar 16

-- with Gianluca Peterella on trombone, Stefano Bollani on piano,

Rosario Bonaccorso on bass and Roberto Gatto on drums

Edited March 12, 2004 by alankin

[Alfred]

...

Stefano Bollani is a wonderful pianist.

...

Exactly. And he is very funny too. I saw him together with Rava in a duo setting last fall in Hamburg. Great concert, very entertaining!

The new Rava can be get from CDUniverse for $12.59. For us Europeans: Zweitausendeins.de will have it for €14.99 in a couple of weeks!

[Eric]

Ordered this one from jazzos.com today:

2004

Enrico Rava - trumpet

John Abercrombie - guitar

Salvatore Bonafede - piano

Ben Street - double bass

Clarence Penn - drums

guests:

Ralph Towner - guitar

Michele Rabbia - percussion

As I say, prolific.

Bev,

What's the good word on this one?

[B. Goren.]

Easy Living is a great album. Enrico Rava and his quintet sounds great. If you like Rava, you must listen to it. And if you dont like Rava, after listening to it you will change your mind.

[Eric]

Easy Living is a great album. Enrico Rava and his quintet sounds great. If you like Rava, you must listen to it. And if you dont like Rava, after listening to it you will change your mind.

I will second that, as a complete newbie. Great jazz record!

[A Lark Ascending]

Ordered this one from jazzos.com today:

2004

Enrico Rava - trumpet

John Abercrombie - guitar

Salvatore Bonafede - piano

Ben Street - double bass

Clarence Penn - drums

guests:

Ralph Towner - guitar

Michele Rabbia - percussion

As I say, prolific.

Bev,

What's the good word on this one?

If you've enjoyed Rava's other discs you can buy this in the knowledge that you're going to enjoy it.

Overall it has a mid-20thC European film music ambience - not suprising as the music is mainly arrangements on Nino Rota's score from 'The Leopard' (Cam Jazz specialise in releasing music associated with film, much of it new arrangements or jazz extensions of film scores).

Very arranged but with lots of space for improvising. Rava is superb helping to give the whole piece a noir-ish feel. Towner only plays on a couple of tracks but the contrast between him an Abercrombie (on electric) adds to the overall colour. Some beautiful Mediterranean moments with a contrasting city nightscape towards the end.

Probably wouldn't appeal to listeners who need their jazz to have a strong blues base.

But anyone attuned to the way European musicians like to 'spin' the genre should enjoy this.