Enrico Rava - Italian Ballads

Styles: Trumpet Jazz
Year: 1996
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 72:15
Size: 170,8 MB
Art: Front

(1:54)  1. The Song Of Gelsomina
(5:07)  2. Giulietta Degli Spiriti
(5:23)  3. Un Bel Di, Vedremo
(8:30)  4. Il Cielo In Una Stanza
(4:20)  5. Margherita
(4:40)  6. Bella
(3:22)  7. Un Canto
(7:28)  8. Diva
(5:51)  9. Torna A Surriento
(6:07) 10. Senza Fine
(2:58) 11. E Se Domani
(4:52) 12. Due Note
(3:26) 13. Stringimi Forte I Polsi
(6:01) 14. More
(2:09) 15. O Mio Babbino Caro

He is twelve years old, but he shows even more, this record by Enrico Rava's Electric Five dedicated to the evergreens of our local music. Impressive is the fact that the musicians involved  then only partially established, but today great realities of Italian jazz and not only are so impalpable in this work, in which everyone (perhaps with the sole exception of the guests Richard Galliano and Barbara Casini) is limit to accompany the trumpet of the leader, engaged mostly to the mere exposition of the lyric theme from time to time on stage, without adding anything expressive to it. Indeed, sometimes even removing something from the originals, as in "Margherita" or in the unlistenable "Endless". 

What else to say? That these operations (some time too practiced by Rava, especially live) may have some market feedback, but should be avoided for the sake of jazz music. In fact, while banalities of this kind flood the newsstands as attachments to magazines, the clubs are becoming increasingly deserted and the reviews close their doors.On the contrary, it has even come to reprint its fruits ...Translate By Google ~ AAJ Italy Staff https://www.allaboutjazz.com/italian-ballads-enrico-rava-venus-records-review-by-aaji-staff.php

Personnel: Enrico Rava (trumpet), Domenico Caliri (guitar), Roberto Cecchetto (guitar), Giovanni Maier (double bass), UT Gandhi (drums, percussion), Barbara Casini (vocals), Richard Galliano (accordion).

Italian Ballads

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