01.Diva
02.Could Be A Tango
03.Bellflower		play
04.Bells
05.Autoritratto
06.Que Reste-T-Il De Nos Amours
07.Parlami D'amore Mariu'
08.What's New
09.My Crazy Valentine	play
10.Blue In Green
11.The Door Without The Door
12.Questions
13.Giselle
14.Feuilles D'automne
15.Parks
16.Spleen

Line Up:
Enrico Rava - trumpet
Richard Galliano - bandoneon
Rita Marcotulli - piano
Enzo Pietropaoli – bass

Possibly Italy's most reknowned jazzer today, Enrico Rava and his trumpet owe a great deal, by his own admission, to Miles Davis. With this in mind his latest project sees him recoding in the Big Apple, paying homage to both Davis and Duke Ellington, not only with usual collaborator Stefano Bollani on keys, but with an American combo who have brought out the best in him for a long time. That's not to say that just about everything Rava does isn't utterly tasteful, it's just that sometimes it errs on the wrong side of politeness. here however, the fusion of European (albeit heavily indebted to the Lower East Side) and the States makes for a far more substantial diet. For starters, Mark Turner's tenor seems to key in to Rava's very DNA, making the two free pieces, Improvisation I and II, amazingly telepathic. His breathy Coltraneisms are always given enough room by Rava but never (as with all players) once straying outside a group dynamic.

At all times the almost microscopic ability of Paul Motian to hit things at exactly the right moment allows the whole thing to float as freely as something as lyrical and moody as this needs to. Those who long for the swinging abilities of him and bass player Larry Grenadier may feel a little short-changed, but it's at the perfectly acceptable price of producing something wonderfully evocative. And anyway, when it comes to the tango of Luna Urbana his rimshots and rattles are like buckshot against the sheen of Bollani's crystalline chords. Meanwhile Rava blows with an effortless grace that can stretch from louche to dangerously dark when needed. All in all this may initially sound like a typically tasteful ECM album, but at its heart it holds some ingenious surprises. More please. --- furryjazz.blogspot.com

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01. Autobiografia (8:42)
02. Serpent (8:26)
03. Interiors (11:57)
04. Algir Dalbughi (13:15)
05. Todamor (5:15)					play
06. Lavori Casalinghi - The Fearless Five (14:01)

Credits:
    Alto Saxophone – Daniele Tittarelli
    Double Bass – Stefano Senni
    Drums – Zeno De Rossi
    Guitar – Marcello Giannini
    Piano – Giovanni Guidi
    Tenor Saxophone – Dan Kinzelman
    Trombone, Tuba – Mauro Ottolini
    Trumpet – Enrico Rava

Enrico Rava, born in Trieste in 1939, is undoubtedly the most internationally acknowledged Italian jazzman. In forty years of his career as trumpet player, and composer, he has produced more than hundred recordings, thirty of which as a leader. Being a great admirer of Miles Davis and Chet Baker, his career started at an early age, when he played in clubs in Turin. In 1962, he meets Gato Barbieri with whom, two years later, he records the soundtrack for Montaldo's film "Una bella grinta". In those years he meets Don Cherry, Mal Waldron and Steve Lacy, with whom he plays free jazz in a quartet alternating between London and Buenos Aires (it is in Argentina in 1966 that the quartet records the album "The Forest and the Zoo"). In 1967 Rava is in New York, where he is introduced into the free avant-garde, among which are Roswell Rudd, Marion Brown, Rashied Ali, Cecil Taylor, Charlie Haden, Marvin Peterson etc.

After an italian parenthesis, during which he plays with various musicians including Franco D'Andrea and where he records with Lee Konitz in Rome and with Manfred Schoof in Bremen, he returns to New York in 1969, where he lives for eight years. At first he plays mostly with Rudd, Bill Dixon and Carla Bley's Jazz Composer's Orchestra, under whose direction he records "Escalator Over the Hill". Beginning in 1972, when he records his first album as a leader, "Il giro del giorno in 80 mondi", Rava directs quartets (in New York clubs and on tours in Europe and Argentina), nearly always in pianoless groups. The playings and recordings follow one another, in a precious and uninterrupted flow, beside acknowledged italian, european and american musicians such as Franco D'Andrea, Enrico Pieranunzi, Marcello Melis, Massimo Urbani, Paolo Fresu, Pietro Tonolo, Stefano Bollani, Roberto Gatto, John Abercrombie, Roswell Rudd, Miroslav Vitous, Richard Galliano, J.F. Jenny-Clark, Misha Mengelberg, Dino Saluzzi, Lee Konitz, Martial Solal, Pat Metheny Charlie Mariano, Cecil Taylor, Jimmy Lyons, Archie Shepp etc. He has played on tours and concerts in USA, Japan, Canada, Europe, Brazil, China, Argentina, taking part in important Festivals (Montreal, Toronto, Houston, San Francisco, Chicago, New York,Rio De Janeiro,Buenos Aires, Montevideo, Perugia, Antibes, Berlin, Paris Tokyo, Peking, etc). He has several times been elected best musician in the annual referendum conducted by "Musica Jazz", and has also won the title in the "best group" and "best italian album" categories.

He ranked the 4th place on the Down Beat 2006 and 2007 trumpet players special chart. At present, he plays in several concerts with several projects including a duo with pianist Stefano Bollani and the Enrico Rava Quintet, composed by affirmed musicians as Gianluca Petrella, Giovanni Guidi, Pietro Leveratto and Fabrizio Sferra. " The third Man", the new Enrico Rava Cd (a duet with Stefano Bollani) for ECM has been released in September 07. A new album "New York Days" with an all star quintet: Mike Turner, Stefano Bollani, Larry Grenadier, Paul Motian, will be released for ECM records in january 09. --- .enricorava.com

Enrico Rava, ur. 20.08.1943 w Trieście we Włoszech. Zafascynowany w latach 60. jazzem nowoorleańskim grywał (na puzonie) w różnych zespołach dixielandowych w Turynie. Zauroczony muzyką Milesa Davisa i charakterystycznym brzmieniem jego trąbki, zdecydował się na zmianę instrumentu. Pierwszą profesjonalną jazzową współpracę nawiązał w (1965 r.) z koncertującymi w Rzymie muzykami amerykańskimi. Najciekawsza okazała się współpraca z saksofonistą Gato Barbierim oraz pianistą Malem Waldronem. Rozpoczął także regularną współpracę (1966-69) z saksofonistą Lee Konitzem. W 1967 r. wraz z saksofonistą Stevem Lacym zagrał pierwsze entuzjastycznie przyjmowane koncerty w Nowym Jorku.

Ważna dla kariery Ravy okazała się także współpraca (koncerty i nagrania) z Roswellem Ruddem, z którym występował w latach 1969-78. Spore uznanie włoski trębacz zdobył w połowie lat 70. koncertując z warsztatową formacją Globe Unity Orchestra. W latach 80. Rava decyduje się na powrót (z Nowego Jorku) do Włoch; zakłada własne zespoły, z których najciekawsze okazały się kwartety z Tonym Oxleyem, Artem Farmerem, Enrico Pieranuzzim, Archiem Sheepem, Naną Vasconcelosem oraz nagrania i koncerty z Donem Cherrym, Charliem Hadenem, Dollarem Brandem, Carlą Bley, Dino Saluzzim, Johnem Abercrombiem.

Autorskie projekty realizuje w ramach Rava String Band: arcyciekawe „Enrico Rava Plays Italian Composers”, „Rava Plays Carmen” i „Rava l'Opera Va” z przepięknymi, jazzowymi interpretacjami klasycznych kompozycji Pucciniego, Bizeta, Nino Roty, Albioniniego. Program „Enrico Rava Plays Italian Composers” uhonorowany został jako najważniejsze europejskie wydarzenia jazzowe (Top Jazz’93 oraz Top Jazz’94). --- lastfm.pl

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1.    "Speechless" - 6:37
2.    "They Don't Care About Us" - 7:54
3.    "Thriller" (Rod Temperton) - 6:17
4.    "Privacy" (Bernard Belle, LaShawn Daniels, Michael Jackson, Fred Jerkins III, Rodney Jerkins) - 5:43
5.    "Smile" (Charlie Chaplin) - 3:29
6.    "I Just Can't Stop Loving You/Smooth Criminal" - 9:13
7.    "Little Susie" - 3:53
8.    "Blood on the Dance Floor" (Michael Jackson, Teddy Riley) - 5:05
9.    "History" (James Harris III, Michael Jackson, Terry Lewis) - 8:08

    Enrico Rava - trumpet
    Andrea Tofanelli, Claudio Corvini - trumpet, flugelhorn
    Mauro Ottolini - trombone, tuba
    Daniele Tittarelli - alto saxophone, flute
    Dan Kinzelman - tenor saxophone, clarinet, bass clarinet
    Franz Bazzani - keyboard
    Giovanni Guidi - piano, Fender Rhodes, toy piano
    Dario Deidda - bass
    Marcello Giannini - electric guitar
    Zeno de Rossi - drums
    Ernesto Lopez Maturell - percussion

It's taken Enrico Rava, the Miles Davis-inspired trumpeter from Trieste, until his 70s to hit the dance floor. This live album is dedicated to Michael Jackson, who Rava said he didn't discover until the singer's death – and then became obsessed with. Thriller, Smooth Criminal, Blood on the Dance Floor and other classics make up a track list exuberantly performed last year by Rome's Parco della Musica Jazz Lab, a young workshop band led by trombonist Mauro Ottolini, whose arrangements these are. A wonderful ballad-player, Rava plays Speechless rather as Davis played Jackson's Human Nature, and boiling groovers like Thriller in flashes of shrill improv over tuba riffs and rumbling congas. Privacy is an electric guitar and soul-sax maelstrom, Smile is a New Orleans street march strut, and Little Susie (the best track) features Rava in Mediterranean heat-haze mode, before a lilting waltz partnership with Danielle Tittarelli's alto sax. It sounds like a laid-back jazz group having a party, not a Quincy Jones band nailing every hit, but it's a real tribute, not a lament for lost youth. ---John Fordham, theguardian.com

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01.Pithecanthropus Erectus 	11:41 	
02.Duke Ellington's Sound Of Love 	9:51 	
03.Remember Rockfeller In Attica 	5:30 	
04.Nostalgia In Times Square 	8:00 	
05.Fables Of Faubus 	8:12 	
06.Goodbye Porkpie Hat 	6:06 	
07.La Tête À L'Envers 	10:48 	

Credits:
Double Bass – François Mechali
Drums – André Ceccarelli
Piano – Hervé Sellin
Tenor Saxophone – François Jeanneau
Trumpet – Enrico Rava

Recorded at Studio Acousti, Paris, France, 1991-11

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1. Lulu
2. Ousider
3. Small Talk
4. Rose Sealvy
5. Ah
6. Trombonauta
7. At The Movies

Enrico Rava: Trumpet 
Franco d'Andrea: Piano 
Giovanni Tommaso: Bass 
Bruce Ditmas: Drums

This hugely popular trumpet player (born in Trieste, Italy in 1939) almost single-handedly brought Italian jazz to international attention. He began playing Dixieland trombone in Turin, but after hearing Miles Davis, switched instruments and embraced the modern style. Other key meetings were with Gato Barbieri, with whom he recorded movie soundtracks in 1962, and Chet Baker. He began to play with Steve Lacy; he also teamed up with South African expatriates Louis Moholo and John Dyani and recorded The Forest and the Zoo (ESP) live in Argentina. In 1967, he moved to New York, playing with Roswell Rudd, Marion Brown, Rashied Ali, Cecil Taylor, and Charlie Haden. In a brief return to Europe, Rava recorded with Lee Konitz (Stereokonitz, RCA) and Manfred Schoof (European Echoes, FMP). From 1969 to 1976, he was back in New York, recording Escalator Over the Hill with Carla Bley's Jazz Composers' Orchestra. After his first album as a leader, Il Giro del Giorno in 80 Mondi (Black Saint), he began to lead his own pianoless quartets and quintets. His recorded output numbers 100 records, 30 as a leader.

ECM has reissued some of his essential recordings of the '70s, like The Pilgrim and the Stars, The Plot, and Enrico Rava Quartet, while Soul Note and Label Bleu published CDs by his innovative Electric Five (in reality a sextet, as he always excludes himself from the count), which includes two electric guitars. With keyboard master Franco D'Andrea and trumpeter Paolo Fresu, Rava recorded Bix and Pop (Philology) and Shades of Chet, tributes to Bix Beiderbecke and Armstrong, and to Chet Baker, respectively. Also of note are Rava, l'Opera Va and Carmen, gorgeous readings of opera arias. In 2001, he created a new quintet with young talents Gianluca Petrella, Stefano Bollani, Rosario Bonaccorso, and Roberto Gatto, and toured with old friends Roswell Rudd and Gato Barbieri, releasing Easy Living with them in 2004 on ECM. Three years later, after Bollani, who had struck out as a solo player, was replaced by Andrea Pozza, The Words and the Days came out. In 2007, Rava and pianist Stefano Bollani released The Third Man on ECM. Rava followed the released in 2009 with New York Days, a collection of moody originals with a film noir tinge, backed by a band that included Bollani, tenor saxophonist Mark Turner, bassist Larry Grenadier, and drummer Paul Motian. Rava broke in a new all-Italian quintet for Tribe, which was issued by ECM in the fall of 2011. Its members included trombonist Gianluca Petrella, pianist Giovanni Guidi, bassist Gabriele Evangelista, and drummer Fabrizio Sferra. Guitarist Giacomo Ancillotto also guested on the set, expanding the lineup on various selections. Rava made a wide left turn for 2012's On the Dance Floor. Amazingly, the trumpeter only became aware of pop singer Michael Jackson's music after his death, and he became obsessed with it. The album, his tribute to what he considers the late singer's contribution to 20th century music, was recorded with Parco della Musica Jazz Lab at the Rome Auditorium; it is entirely comprised of Jackson's material. --- Francesco Martinelli, AMG

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1 Amnesia
2 Garbage Can Blues
3 Choctaw
4 Incognito 
5 Cornettology 
6 F. Express 
7 Tears For Neda 
8 Song Tree 
9 Paris Baguette 
10 Planet earth
11 Tribe 
12 Improvisation

Musicians:
Enrico Rava - Trumpet
Gianluca Petrella - Trombone
Giovanni Guidi - Piano
Gabriele Evangelista - Double Bass
Fabrizio Sferra – Drums

Since returning to ECM in 2003, the great Italian trumpeter Enrico Rava has made a series of superb recordings with both international bands (2009's New York Days with Paul Motian et al. a prime example) and home-grown units. On this album, he leads the latter, comprising one of his most sympathetic front-line associates, trombonist Gianluca Petrella, and a suitably sensitive but strong rhythm section, pianist Giovanni Guidi, bassist Gabriele Evangelista and drummer Fabrizio Sferra.

The material is a mix of old ('F. Express', 'Amnesia', 'Garbage Can Blues' etc.) and new, and mines the familiar ECM mother lodes of rubato musing, freeish improvisation and deceptively gentle, ruminative 'time' pieces,but whatever the mode, Rava's band (two of whom, Guidi and Evangelista, are in their twenties) play with the robust delicacy laced with wit and elegance demanded by his graceful, insinuating themes.

Petrella and Rava, as might be expected by anyone who's heard the 2007 Rava recording, The Words and the Days, are a peerless combination, but it is Rava's ravishing lyricism, his pure, burnished tone infused with both warmth and a hint of human vulnerability, that makes this consistently absorbing, musicianly album so special. --- londonjazz.blogspot.com

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01. Lulu (9:34)
02. Improvisation I (4:24)
03. Outsider (6:17)
04. Certi Angoli Segreti (10:56)
05. Interiors (10:42)
06. Thank You, Come Again (7:06)
07. Count Dracula (3:21)
08. Luna Urbana (7:40)
09. Improvisation II (7:52)
10. Lady Orlando (5:32)
11. Blancasnow (4:22)

Personnel: 
Enrico Rava (trumpet); 
Mark Turner (tenor saxophone); 
Stefano Bollani (piano); 
Larry Grenadier (double bass); 
Paul Motian (drums).

Enrico Rava, the Miles Davis-inspired Italian trumpet star and composer, plays with a pedigree transatlantic band on a 2008 New York set devoted to his mix of smoky love-song melodies and startling eruptions. All the pieces are his, save for two slowly weaving on-the-fly group improvisations. Rava is joined by regular pianist Stefano Bollani, with the American contingent represented by Brad Mehldau bassist Larry Grenadier, percussion magician Paul Motian and the sophisticated 1950s Cool-meets-Coltrane tenor saxophonist Mark Turner. Rava and Bollani's delicate agenda of rich tone-colours, illuminated by lightning-strikes of urgent sound, dominates the music. Though there are sporadic diversions into bebop at an uptempo sprint (Outsider), or a mid-tempo canter with hints of Thelonious Monk and Chet Baker/Gerry Mulligan (Thank You Come Again), jazzers shouldn't jump to the conclusion that a rhythm section this hip means all that much grooving. But Motian's dazzling drumming always swings. Bollani's piano lines glisten over his springy left-hand chording, and the two horn players - Turner often murmuring around the lower register, Rava splitting long sounds with taut upper-end ascents - both contrast sharply, and intertwine like intimates. --- John Fordham, The Guardian

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1.The Pilgrim And The Stars; 
2.Parks; 
3.Bella; 
4.Pesce Naufrago; 
5.Surprise Hotel; 
6.By The Sea; 
7.Blancasnow.

Personnel: 
Enrico Rava: trumpet; 
John Abercrombie: guitar; 
Palle Danielsson: bass; 
Jon Christensen: drums.

Enrico Rava's debut for ECM, 1975's The Pilgrim and the Stars, is a stellar progressive jazz effort from the Italian trumpeter who was then just coming into his own. Previously, Rava had spent his formative years working with such artists as saxophonist Steve Lacy, trombonist Roswell Rudd, and pianist Carla Bley, and obviously took much to heart when approaching his own music. This is cerebral, atmospheric, often groove-oriented music that rests nicely in between such touchstones as late-'60s Miles Davis and Brown Rice-era Don Cherry with some obvious nods to the melodic jazz of ex-pat Chet Baker. To these ends, such tunes as the expansive title track and the reflective "Bella" begin with lyrical melodic statements from Rava and slowly build to more serpentine, post-bop segments that push toward free jazz but never quite go atonal. Buoying Rava is an adroit ensemble of guitarist John Abercrombie, bassist Palle Danielsson, and drummer Jon Christensen. A ceaselessy inventive guitarist, Abercrombie's knotty, fractured, and sometimes distorted playing is a perfect match for Rava and the two often intertwine their lines. Similarly, the moody slow funk of "By the Sea" finds Rava floating in a minor mode over Abercrombie's delay-laden guitar in a kind of dusky twilight raga. This is just the kind of contemplative and experimental Euro-jazz that ECM made its name on, but with some seriously cinematic post-bop guts. In that sense, The Pilgrim and the Stars sounds something akin to a soundtrack to a '70s neo-noir film -- albeit a deliciously avant-garde one. ---Matt Collar, AMG

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01 On Cue
02 Apples
03 Two Colors
04 Icon
05 L'Age Mur
06 Esteem
07 Evening
08 Theme for Jessica
09 Monti Pallidi
10 Alua

Enrico Rava - trumpet, flugelhorn
Claudio Fasoli - tenor & soprano sax
Franco D'Andrea – piano

Keyboardist and Italian pianist who's been busy working with visiting American musicians and cutting free and jazz rock dates since the '60s, Franco D'Andrea's earliest sessions came with Nunzio Rotondo and Gato Barbieri. Then he recorded with Franco Ambrosetti, Giorgio Azzolini, and Giovanni Tommaso, plus Gianni Basso and Enrico Rava. D'Andrea formed the Modern Art Trio in 1968 and four years later, played with the jazz-rock group Perigeo. He worked with a host of visiting American jazz greats, including Dexter Gordon, Slide Hampton, Max Roach, and Lucky Thompson and has recorded with Lee Konitz, Conte Candoli, and Johnny Griffin. He joined Rava's quartet in 1979, and formed his own group in 1983. ---Ron Wynn, itunes.apple.com

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1 	Ouverture 	2:59
2 	Séguedille (Près Des Remparts De Séville) 	8:02
3 	Votre Toast, Je Peux Vous Le Rendre 	7:07
4 	Chanson Bohême 	4:31
5 	Habanera (L'Amour Est Un Oiseau Rebelle) 	6:56
6 	Improvisations Sur Ouverture 	4:16
7 	La Fleur Que Tu M'Avais Jetée 	9:12
8 	Fragments 	5:58
9 	Epilogue 	1:47

Bassoon – Roger Rota
Clarinet [Clarinets] – Gianluigi Trovesi
Drums – Han Bennink
Electric Bass – Enzo Pietropaoli
Flute – Claudio Allifranchini
French Horn – Guido Corti
Guitar – Domenico Caliri, John Schroeder
Harp – Lucia Bova
Oboe – Paolo Brunello
Orchestra – L'Orchestra Sinfonica Dell'Emilia Romagna "Arturo Toscanini"
Trombone – Giovanni Di Stefano
Trumpet – Davide Ghidoni, Enrico Rava
Tuba – Michel Godard 

Carmen is a post-fusion contemporary music album recording by ENRICO RAVA released in 1995 on CD, LP/Vinyl and/or cassette.

Enrico Rava is Italy’s greatest jazz musician and one of the outstanding figures on the European jazz scene for the last five decades. He has an immediately recognisable sound and approach whether playing trumpet or flugelhorn. His use of space is crucial, giving maximum impact to each expressive nuance in what he plays. He is a master, capable of fire and lyricism, abandon and control.

Rava was inspired to play trumpet after hearing Miles Davis as an 18-year old. He began to attract attention in the mid 1960s, when he played alongside such notable visitors as Gato Barbieri and Steve Lacy. He then spent several years in New York, working with such artists as Carla Bley, Roswell Rudd, Paul Motian and Lee Konitz.

Based in Italy since the mid '70s, Enrico has often played alongside leading artists from other countries; leading his own bands; and always setting a very high standard for his countrymen to emulate. He has performed alongside Gil Evans, Cecil Taylor, Joe Henderson, John Abercrombie, Ran Blake, Pat Metheny, Martial Solal, Richard Galliano, Dave Douglas, Paolo Fresu......the list could go on. He has released over 50 albums as leader (including the 1975 ECM classic, The Pilgrim And The Stars, and the 1995 set based on Bizet's opera, Carmen). ---sima.org.au

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