Jazz Articles about Enrico Rava

Enrico Rava: Easy Living

by John Kelman
March 17, 2004

After nearly 20 years away from the label, Italian trumpet legend Enrico Rava makes a triumphant return to ECM with Easy Living , an album that proves that a relaxed, unforced approach can have its own kind of quiet intensity. Comparisons can be made to Polish trumpeter Tomasz Stanko who, also in his 60s, has similarly developed a penchant for a mellower, more soulful approach. Both artists have surrounded themselves with young musicians from their own countries. ...

Trumpeter Enrico Rava

by Andrey Henkin
January 5, 2004

For those who maintain that jazz is purely an American music, go check your record collection and see how many times the name Enrico Rava shows up. The trumpeter in many ways defines Italian jazz as well as how the music has become an international phenomenon. Rava's accomplishments are myriad. “I think I started a lot of things in Italy because I was the first Italian guy to go to New York and stay there and play ...

Enrico Rava & Michael Flugel Quartet: Live at Birdland Neuburg

by Dave Nathan
December 1, 2000

Trumpet player Enrico Rava has been one of Italy's leading jazz figures for several years having performed with many of the top modern jazz players in the United States and in Europe like Steve Lacy, Mal Waldron and Don Cherry. Germany's Pianist Michael Flügel is somewhat newer at the jazz game than Rava, but nonetheless has an impressive resume of European jazz collaborations.

Rava is a disciple of Miles Davis and like Davis stays pretty much within the ...

Enrico Rava: Ragazzi Selvaggi

by Ernesto De Pascale
February 1, 1999

Veteran trumpeter Enrico Rava dedicates Ragazzi Selvaggi to the mythic Beat Generation, the literature it inspired, the lifestyle it introduced and the movement it became. The sounds that Rava uses to evoke the Beat life are actually inspired by Bernard Hermann's orchestral work (which dominated the most popular films during the Beat era), as opposed to the late great composer's jazzier and edgier work.But the combination of this with the improvised sound of Rava's jazz quartet, augmented by ...