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Umbria Jazz Winter 2014
by Libero Farnè
Umbria Jazz Winter Orvieto 28.12.2013-1.1.2014 Come sempre il cartellone di Umbria Jazz Winter, nel clima festoso a cavallo di Capodanno in vari prestigiosi spazi di Orvieto, si è presentato articolato, giostrando fra nomi più o meno noti, fra protagonisti italiani e americani. I nomi emergenti da non lasciarsi sfuggire erano due: la cantante Cécile McLorin Salvant e la tenorista Melissa Aldana, più o meno coetanee essendo nate la prima a Miami nel 1989 ...
Continue ReadingEnrico Rava: Rava on the Dance Floor
by John Kelman
Italian trumpeter Enrico Rava doing a tribute to the late King of Pop, Michael Jackson? Italian trumpeter Enrico Rava doing a tribute to the late King of Pop, Michael Jackson, on ECM? If either of these concepts seem somehow wrong, it's likely because, in forty-plus years, ECM has garnered (beyond its reputation as one of the most important labels in the history of music) its share of magical (and incorrect) thinking. Rava, it turns, out, hadn't paid much attention to ...
Continue ReadingEnrico Rava: Rava on the Dance Floor
by AAJ Italy Staff
Se si esclude la celebre “Thriller" dall'omonimo album, il più venduto nella storia della musica, Rava on the Dance Floor (registrato dal vivo all'Auditorium Parco della Musica) pesca nel repertorio minore di Michael Jackson, uno sguardo gettato sul periodo meno sfavillante della pop star, quando qualche critico arricciava il naso e più di un fan rimpiangeva gli antichi splendori. Scelta interessante, intrigante e carica di aspettative quella effettuata dal trombettista torinese, per la possibilità di far emergere alcuni aspetti meno ...
Continue ReadingEnrico Rava: To Be Free or Not To Be Free
by Ian Patterson
Freedom, it could be argued, is most deeply understood by those who have been somehow constrained against their will, or who have been prisoners of their own skewed vision of what it means to be free. Trumpeter Enrico Rava knows the meaning of musical freedom; he was part of the free-jazz scene of the 1960s and 1970s where chords were frowned upon, and made recordings almost at will in the 80s and 90s, “many of which were not necessary," he ...
Continue ReadingEnrico Rava Quintet: Tribe
by Ian Patterson
Trumpeter Enrico Rava has enjoyed a sustained late-career, creative high since returning to ECM with Easy Living (ECM, 2004) after an absence of 20 years. With a largely new and exciting lineup, Tribe balances new compositions with reworked older material, all imbued with Rava's trademark lyricism, embracing warmth and melodic strength. As the 2008 Touchstone Series reissue of The Pilgrim and the Stars (ECM 1975) demonstrated, Rava's music from nearly four decades ago still sounds remarkably fresh today, and this ...
Continue ReadingEnrico Rava Quintet: Tribe
by AAJ Italy Staff
Enrico Rava torna a incidere per la ECM di Manfred Eicher a due anni di distanza da New York Days, insieme a Petrella, Guidi, Sferra, Evangelista e Ancillotto, musicisti esperti, anche se alcuni ancora molto giovani, capaci di intendere al meglio sia la filosofia musicale del leader che le consuete attitudini dell'etichetta bavarese. Tribe è un album dalla cifra espressiva notevole. Si tratta di dodici brani suonati in maniera deliziosa, fortemente avvolti in atmosfere buie e in taluni casi rarefatte, ...
Continue ReadingEnrico Rava Quintet: Tribe
by Greg Simmons
Italian trumpet virtuoso Enrico Rava masters improvised atmospheric landscapes on Tribe. His thick, dark horn quests for firm structure and often, not finding anything solid, rolls back and forth over the rhythm section as it collaboratively meanders through the soundscape. Being drawn into the adventure is almost irresistible. “Amnesia" sets the expectation that this will be an exploratory affair, with the horns washing over the rolling arpeggios of the piano and arrhythmic bass and drum lines. Slow and ...
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