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Enrico Rava: Around the Jazz World in 80 Years - The Leader Part - 2
by Ludovico Granvassu
Second part of the Enrico Rava special focusing on his projects as leader (click here to access the first part) showcasing his range of interests from the tradition of the American Songbook, to Bitches Brew like soundscapes and Opera. This playlist features his work with the likes of Roswell Rudd, Franco D'Andrea, John Abercrombie, Gianluigi Trovesi, Aldo Romano, Javier Girotto, Richard Galliano, Tony Oxley, Marcello Melis, Nana Vasconcelos, Stefano Battaglia and many more. Ben Allison ...
Continue ReadingEnrico Rava: Around the Jazz World in 80 Years - The Leader Part -1
by Ludovico Granvassu
In advance of the long-overdue return of Enrico Rava to New York -where he will be taking part in the celebration of the 50th anniversary of ECM at Jazz at Lincol Center on 1 and 2 November—here is the first installment of an overview of the career of the grand master of Italian Jazz. Enrico Rava turned 80 this year and has had a five-decade long artistic path that paralleled and often intersected that of the label founded ...
Continue ReadingEnrico Rava - Joe Lovano: Roma
by Mike Jurkovic
Pristinely recorded in November 2018, at Rome's Auditorium Parco della Musica, Roma rises from fertile, anticipatory mists like a great host of ECM recordings past, present, and future do and will. Quietly coalescing around the polyphonic, noir-impressionism of master Italian trumpeter Enrico Rava's vaporous “Interiors" are Rava's masterful saxophone counterpart Joe Lovano, accompanied by the avant derring-do of long-time Rava collaborator pianist Giovanni Guidi, double bassist Dezron Douglas and drummer Gerald Cleaver. Though it is the first time ...
Continue ReadingEnrico Rava Special Edition at Teatro Nuovo
by Francesco Martinelli
Enrico Rava Special Edition Pisa Jazz Teatro Nuovo Pisa, Italy Sept. 25 2019 Enrico Rava, the musician who almost single-handedly gave Italian jazz an international profile in the '70s with his recordings, turns 80 this year and celebrates the milestone in the way he knows best: in music. He's touring with a Special Edition of his band, a flexible unit gathering many of the young bloods he worked with in the past decade ...
Continue ReadingMichael Leonhart, Rava, Lovano, Zappa & Other New Releases
by Ludovico Granvassu
From previously unreleased recordings of Frank Zappa to the much-anticipated new album by the Michael Leonhart Orchestra and the exciting collaboration between Enrico Rava and Joe Lovano, this week we delve into another stash of really exciting new releases. Happy listening! Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00</li> <li>Michael Leonhart Orchestra “Built for Comfort" <em>Suite Extracts -Vol. 1</em> (Sunnyside) 0:17</li> <li>Host Talks 5:46</li> <li>Michael Leonhart Orchestra “Quiet Man Is ...
Continue ReadingSipario sul Torino Jazz Festival 2019
by Libero Farnè
Torino, varie sedi 3-4.05.2019 Un assaggio del Torino Jazz Festival, partecipando solo alle due giornate conclusive, ha permesso di prendere atto di una delle scelte programmatiche, e cioè la volontà di portare alla ribalta musicisti torinesi di varie generazioni e notorietà, facendoli spesso interagire con ospiti internazionali. Non a caso anche i due direttori artistici del festival, Diego Borotti e Giorgio Li Calzi, sono jazzisti provenienti dal capoluogo piemontese. Fra le molte proposte distribuite nell'arco della giornata ...
Continue ReadingEnrico Rava Quintet feat. Joe Lovano al Padova Jazz Festival
by Stefano Merighi
Enrico Rava Quintet feat. Joe Lovano Teatro MPX Padova Jazz Festival Padova 26.10.2018 Dopo alcuni incontri estemporanei del passato, Enrico Rava e Joe Lovano si ritrovano per imbastire un tour sostanzioso, supportati da una band di stelle, con Giovanni Guidi, Dezron Douglas e Gerald Cleaver. Il sodalizio, a ben vedere, è del tutto naturale. Laterali sia al mainstream che alle avanguardie, Rava e Lovano condividono un'attitudine al “canto" libero, a ...
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