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Enrico Rava: Italian Ballads
by AAJ Italy Staff
Ha dodici anni, ma ne dimostra anche di più, questo disco dell’Electric Five di Enrico Rava dedicato agli evergreen della musica nostrana. Impressiona il fatto che i musicisti coinvolti - allora solo in parte affermati, ma oggi grandi realtà del jazz italiano e non solo - siano così impalpabili in questo lavoro, nel quale tutti (forse con la sola esclusione degli ospiti Richard Galliano e Barbara Casini) si limitano ad accompagnare la tromba del leader, impegnato perlopiù alla mera esposizione ...
Continue ReadingEnrico Rava: The Pilgrim And The Stars
by Budd Kopman
In celebration of its fortieth anniversary, ECM has initiated a program called Touchstones in which forty albums recorded from 1971-1993 have been reissued. The program has been designed both to allow collectors to fill in missing releases and to introduce new listeners to a wide range of the music that has defined the “ECM sound." Many of those chosen have been out of print or not readily available in the United States, including trumpeter Enrico Rava's debut ...
Continue ReadingEnrico Rava / Stefano Bollani: The Third Man
by Laurel Gross
Italian trumpeter Enrico Rava and pianist Stefano Bollani have been collaborators for more than a dozen years and the dynamism of their close association is evidenced on their exquisite new duo CD. These two virtuosic and supremely focused performers need no third man to round out their evocative, often introspective and always superb playing on this recording, which features two very different but stunning renditions of Antonio Carlos Jobim's “Retrato Em Branco Y Preto," works from another Brazilian, Moacir Santos, ...
Continue ReadingEnrico Rava / Stefano Bollani Quintet at Birdland, NYC
by Budd Kopman
Enrico Rava/Stefano Bollani Quintet at Birdland, NYCBirdlandNew York City, New YorkFebruary 24, 2008 Capping a four-day stand, and playing to a full house, trumpeter Enrico Rava and pianist Stefano Bollani, along with bassist Larry Grenadier, drummer Paul Motian and saxophonist Mark Turner were seductive, grooving, beautiful, while also being intellectual, very funny, moving and impressive. Rava and Bollani have recently released a wonderful duo album The Third Man (ECM, 2008), and ...
Continue ReadingEnrico Rava / Stefan Bollani: The Third Man
by Budd Kopman
The first thing noticeable about the intensely intimate The Third Man is how acoustically alive it is, even when played back on inferior equipment. Pianist Stefano Bollani posits that the recording venue--the Auditorio Radio Svizzeria in Lugano, Italy--directly affected the musical outcome. He and trumpeter Enrico Rava were able to play without headphones and thus could interact more directly. The sound of the space, as echoes which produce a voluminous sound stage, are clearly audible with both ...
Continue ReadingEnrico Rava / Stefano Bollani: The Third Man
by John Kelman
With the diminishing role of mentoring in jazz, it's gratifying to not only watch a young artist emerge from under the tutelage of a more senior master, but to become a musical equal. Italian pianist Stefano Bollani may have been drawn into the world of jazz at the age of 24 by veteran trumpeter Enrico Rava, but in the ensuing twelve years he's become a distinctive voice in his own right, culminating in the near-encyclopedic breadth of Piano Solo (ECM, ...
Continue ReadingEnrico Rava - Stefano Bollani: The Third Man
by AAJ Italy Staff
Quello tra Enrico Rava e Stefano Bollani, più che un sodalizio rodato, è un rapporto umano che ha favorito la creazione di importanti lavori, dal vivo e su disco (clicca qui per leggere la recensione di Tati, in trio con Paul Motian), l’ultimo dei quali, questo duo pubblicato da ECM, ne illustra la profondità e gli esiti artistici. I due musicisti si appoggiano con sicurezza alla loro intesa, per lavorare in modo classico, ma anche molto libero sui brani, con ...
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