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Enrico Rava: Consummate Fan, Consummate Artist
by R.J. DeLuke
Listen to Enrico Rava play the trumpet. It's direct and assured. Controlled and cool, yet capable of flights of fancy. His sound on the horn is mature and fat and full. It's capable of bold and brazen statements, and can be fragile as an eggshell. With it, he has become one of the finer players around ...
Enrico Rava: TATI
by John Kelman
Italian Enrico Rava may arguably be the best qualified trumpeter to carry the mantle of the late Miles Davis' more tender and straightforward side. Last year's Easy Living--his return to the ECM label after a seventeen-year hiatus--found him exploring the kind of approachable yet never less than adventurous post bop territory that Miles might have found ...
Enrico Rava: TATI
by Chris May
What you see is not necessarily the only thing you get. The track titles here, including Gershwin's “The Man I Love" and Puccini's “E Lucevan Le Stelle," together with Enrico Rava's celebrated melodic genius, might suggest an album of lush and legato music, comfortably at peace with the world. And indeed, TATI is glowingly lyrical from ...
Enrico Rava: Full of Life
by John Kelman
In a recent AAJ article, Marc Meyers makes a strong case for a new mainstream in jazz, championed by artists like trumpeters David Weiss and Dave Douglas, as well as the improvisationally and compositionally rich SF Jazz Collective. But it's worthwhile to note that there are still artists out there mining the legacy of the more ...
Enrico Rava: Full of Life
by Jim Santella
A lyrical trumpeter with a mellow tone and soft-edged motions, Enrico Rava brings a delicious sound to the forum. His piano-less quartet maintains a focus on embellished melodies and creatively improvised airs. Their combined textures leave space for the quartet's harmony to breathe. Without clutter, they give their audience a feeling of openness. The music simply ...
Enrico Rava: La Dolce Vita & Full of Life
by C. Michael Bailey
The jazz stylings of Italian trumpeter and flugelhornist Enrico Rava, much like that of his Polish counterpart Tomasz Stanko, are a synthesis 1950s Miles Davis and Chet Baker transformed through the fifty years that have elapsed since the release of the first sides which would become Birth of the Cool and the Gerry Mulligan pianoless quartets ...
Easy Living
By Enrico Rava
Label: ECM Records
Released: 2004
Track listing: Cromosomi; Drops; Sand; Easy Living; Algir Dalbughi; Blancasnow; Traveling Night;
Honerette And The Drums Thing; Rain
Happiness is...
By Enrico Rava
Label: Stunt Records/Sundance Music
Released: 2004
Track listing: 1. Tango for Vasquez y Pepita; 2. Certi Angoli Segreti; 3. The Trial; 4. Nature Boy; 5. Happiness Is To Win A Big Prize; 6. Dear Old Stockholm
Enrico Rava: Happiness is...
by Simon Calle
In '02 Italian trumpeter Enrico Rava won the Danish Jazzpar prize. One of the activities related to the award is a series of concerts through various Danish cities--which are documented on this album. These six joyful pieces can easily be likened to the title, “Happiness is To Win a Big Prize," the name of one of ...
Enrico Rava: Easy Living
by John Kelman
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 ...
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