Enrico Rava & Fred Hersch - The Song Is You

Styles: Trumpet And Piano Jazz
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 42:49
Size: 98,5 MB
Art: Front

(7:54) 1. Retrato em Branco e Preto
(4:17) 2. Improvisation
(5:55) 3. I’m Getting Sentimental Over You
(4:45) 4. The Song Is You
(7:09) 5. Child’s Song
(2:09) 6. The Trial
(6:47) 7. Misterioso
(3:50) 8. Round Midnight

Flashbacks pop up immediately on registering the instrumentation (flugelhorn and piano) and material (jazz standards and Great American Songbook ballads) on Enrico Rava and Fred Hersch's The Song Is You. Among them, Chet Baker and Paul Bley's Diane (Steeplechase, 1985) and Baker and Enrico Pieranunzi's The Heart Of The Ballad (Philology, 1988).

The Baker association is affirmed by The Song Is You's opening track, Antonio Carlos Jobim's "Retrato em Branco e Preto." Rava's intimate, caressing tone and Hersch's gentle accompaniment suggest that the album is not about to frighten the horses. But wait. That is only for starters. On the next track, "Improvisation," Rava and Hersch venture further out and they stay there for the rest of the disc. Chromaticism is off the menu, and lyricism is firmly centrestage, but the individual songs' harmonic structures are explored and stretched. So, too, is the historically received vibe of George Bassman's "I'm Getting Sentimental Over You," which here is so jumpy-jaunty as to border on the comical.

So, far from being simply an enjoyable wallow in nostalgia, The Song Is You travels down unfamiliar paths while, reassuringly, never losing sight of its starting points. Along the way are two originals, Rava's "The Trial" and Hersch's "Child's Song," which sit comfortably among their distinguished fellows.

Engrossing though the entire album is, the best moments are saved until last. Thelonious Monk's "Misterioso" and "Round Midnight," the latter for piano only, are exquisite. Every jazz fan probably knows each of these tunes as well as anything else one could name in the jazz standards canon, but Rava and Hersch's versions are as fresh and full of new promise as a spring morning. A quietly sensational album. By Chris May https://www.allaboutjazz.com/the-song-is-you-enrico-rava-ecm-records

Personnel: Enrico Rava: trumpet; Fred Hersch: piano.

The Song Is You

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Enrico Rava & Joe Lovano - Roma

Styles: Trumpet And Saxophone Jazz
Year: 2019
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 66:14
Size: 152,2 MB
Art: Front

(15:07) 1. Interiors
( 9:46) 2. Secrets
(12:32) 3. Fort Worth
( 9:57) 4. Divine Timing
(18:49) 5. Spiritual, Over The Rainbow & Drum Song

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 Rava and Lovano have recorded together it is still par for both that all five of the expansively spirited tracks hold their own slippery atmospheres, giving these crafty improvisers plenty of leeway and free range to take the music where it wants to go and how they take it there. For these forward-thinkers, Rava's "Secrets" may be a somewhat traditional piece but, with the horns trading heads and Cleaver's decisive pinpoint accuracy, it is anything but. The same can be said for Lovano's fever-paced "Fort Worth," even with its marked swing time and blues. This is a jam's jam with Lovano wailing, Rava's levelling lines, Guidi sailing, and Douglas and Cleaver pushing the abandon

It could be argued that "Fort Worth" is Roma's highlight, but then where would that put the exquisite closing medley that gorgeously sweeps in Lovano's "Drum Song" drawn from one of his peak recordings, Folk Art (2009, Blue Note) John Coltrane's quixotic "Spiritual" and the ravishing, breath-capturing "Over The Rainbow" that Guidi pulls from the fraying sprawls of "Spiritual" and quietly, pastorally brings Roma to a glorious close.~ MIKE JURKOVIC https://www.allaboutjazz.com/roma-enrico-rava-ecm-records-review-by-mike-jurkovic

Personnel: Enrico Rava - Trumpet; Joe Lovano - Tenor Saxophone, Tarogato; Giovanni Guidi - Piano; Dezron Douglas - Double Bass; Gerald Cleaver - Drums

Roma

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Enrico Rava - The Pilgrim And The Stars

Styles: Trumpet Jazz
Year: 1975
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 39:45
Size: 91,5 MB
Art: Front

(9:45) 1. The Pilgrim And The Stars
(1:48) 2. Parks
(9:20) 3. Bella
(5:15) 4. Pesce Naufrago
(1:55) 5. Surprise Hotel
(4:49) 6. By The Sea
(6:50) 7. Blancasnow

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 album The Pilgrim And The Stars, which has never been available as a CD in the United States. As fascinating as jazz can be by the seemingly endless creation of the new and heretofore unheard, a reissue of a currently hard-to-acquire album allows for the old(er) to be experienced as new. While Western classical music measures its history in centuries, jazz does so in decades. The Pilgrim And The Stars, recorded in 1975, is from ECM's first decade of existence, and presents early performances of guitarist John Abercrombie, bassist Palle Danielsson, and drummer John Christensen, the latter two of whom were members of pianist Keith Jarrett's "European Quartet"see Belonging (ECM, 1974). The music itself sounds remarkably fresh today, which is just an indication that good music is timeless and rises above any stylistic constraints of its era. The compositions, all by Rava (with Graciela Rava added for "By The Sea") vary widely, allowing for an attractive pacing and flow. Overall, there is a strong feeling of each individual performer's freedom intersecting, reacting with, and responding to the group sound of the moment, always, colored, however, by the free romanticism of Rava's trumpet.

Although the album is obviously Rava's through his compositions and trumpet playing, Abercrombie very nearly steals the record with his intense, flying, and completely unpredictable solos, as well as his lush and well-placed, sharp accompaniment. While all of the tracks have something to offer, the title track and "Bella," besides being the longest, are standouts. Constructed similarly, their opening, rubato sections offer beauty and grace, before the band takes off in the middle, extended sections. It is here that Abercrombie, particularly in "Bella," shines, practically searing the speakers and eliciting a "woo," presumably from Rava. Danielsson and Christensen, as the rhythm section, are easily taken for granted since their playing is so highly attuned both to each other and to the rest of the band, pushing and pulling the music along. The Pilgrim And The Stars is a most welcome reissue regardless of perspective, being very alive, vibrant, and simply great music jazz at its best.~ Budd Kopman https://www.allaboutjazz.com/the-pilgrim-and-the-stars-enrico-rava-ecm-records-review-by-budd-kopman.php

Personnel: Enrico Rava: trumpet; John Abercrombie: guitar; Palle Danielsson: bass; Jon Christensen: drums.

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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Enrico Rava, Barbara Casini - Vento

Styles: Vocal, Guitar And Trumpet
Year: 1999
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 50:07
Size: 115,6 MB
Art: Front

(0:46)  1. Aspettando un Sogno
(3:50)  2. L'Angelo
(4:50)  3. Cidade do Amor Demais
(7:10)  4. La Maschera
(4:31)  5. Vento
(4:56)  6. Bolero do Parecer
(1:34)  7. Ballo
(5:10)  8. Malinconica Abitudine
(6:03)  9. Un'Alba Limpida
(4:59) 10. Une petite folie
(4:49) 11. Fin de l'ennui
(1:24) 12. Early Autumn

She was born in Florence, on July 30, 1954, to Florentine parents, who rarely set their sights on Italy. In the house we listened to the songs in vogue, jazz and classical music. Barbara played the piano, the guitar, but above all sang, of everything: the Beatles, Rita Pavone, Mina. Then one day "new" records arrived, a new sound coming from overseas: the Bossa Nova . Barbara was fifteen years old. Thus began his love for Brazilian music , an extraordinary love that never ended, and which, once grown, pushed her to a turning point in life: despite her degree in psychology, she abandoned the project to become a psychoanalyst and decide to be a singer. He throws himself into the frantic search for everything concerning Brazil, music, literature and the Portuguese language itself. Finally in 1982 he made his first trip to that dreamed land. Elis Regina has been dead for a year and Barbara has already internalized her way of singing, she knows every breath, every smile and every tear that comes out of Elis's song. On that first trip he fills a suitcase with records , and the soul of sounds and names! He realizes that there is an unknown and wonderful world of composers, musicians, and performers who open new horizons to explore. When Barbara returns to Brazil, she goes a long way, from Rio to S Luis do Maranhão, "discovers" the Nordeste, re-falls in love, meets Luiz Gonzaga while she is recording her latest album just before she dies, learns her songs and those of Geraldo Azevedo, Xangai, Jatobá. His repertoire changes radically: Barbara in Italy spreads the popular music of that different Brazil, plays the triangle and the zabumba, canta côco e baião, maracatu and bumba meu boi, once again he enjoys and is moved. In the meantime he forms the Trio OUTRO LADO with Beppe Fornaroli and Naco , with whom he records an LP, "Outro Lado", (reprinted on CD by Philology in 1999). Many years pass, many journeys, many meetings. In 1994 he formed a quartet with Stefano Bollani on the piano, Raffaello Pareti on the double bass and Francesco Petreni on drums, a group that remained active until the early 2000s. He collaborates with great Italian and foreign musicians of the jazz scene (Enrico Rava, Stefano Bollani, Fabrizio Bosso, Phil Woods, Lee Konitz) and Brazilian Popular Music, such as Toninho Horta and Guinga, and participates with various formations in the most important Italian festivals. Along his more than thirty-year career he also engages with jazz and with Italian and French songs. Translate By Google http://www.barbaracasini.it/barbara-casini-biografia/

This hugely popular trumpet player (born in Trieste, Italy in 1939) almost single-handedly brought Italian jazz to international attention. He began playing Dixieland trombone in Turin, but after hearing Miles Davis, switched instruments and embraced the modern style. Other key meetings were with Gato Barbieri, with whom he recorded movie soundtracks in 1962, and Chet Baker. He began to play with Steve Lacy and also teamed up with South African expatriates Louis Moholo and John Dyani and recorded The Forest and the Zoo (ESP) live in Argentina. In 1967, he moved to New York, playing with Roswell Rudd, Marion Brown, Rashied Ali, Cecil Taylor, and Charlie Haden. In a brief return to Europe, Rava recorded with Lee Konitz (Stereokonitz, RCA) and Manfred Schoof (European Echoes, FMP). From 1969 to 1976, he was back in New York, recording Escalator Over the Hill with Carla Bley's Jazz Composers' Orchestra. After his first album as a leader, Il Giro del Giorno in 80 Mondi (Black Saint), he began to lead his own pianoless quartets and quintets. His recorded output numbers over 100 records, and over 30 as a leader. ECM has reissued some of his essential recordings of the '70s, like The Pilgrim and the Stars, The Plot, and Enrico Rava Quartet, while Soul Note and Label Bleu published CDs by his innovative Electric Five (in reality a sextet, as he always excludes himself from the count), which includes two electric guitars. With keyboard master Franco D'Andrea and trumpeter Paolo Fresu, Rava recorded Bix and Pop (Philology) and Shades of Chet, tributes to Bix Beiderbecke and Armstrong, and to Chet Baker, respectively. Also of note are Rava, L'opera Va and Carmen, gorgeous readings of opera arias. In 2001, he created a new quintet with young talents Gianluca Petrella, Stefano Bollani, Rosario Bonaccorso, and Roberto Gatto, and toured with old friends Roswell Rudd and Gato Barbieri, releasing Easy Living with them in 2004 on ECM. Three years later, after Bollani, who had struck out as a solo player, was replaced by Andrea Pozza, The Words and the Days came out. In 2007, Rava and pianist Stefano Bollani released The Third Man on ECM. Rava followed the release in 2009 with New York Days, a collection of moody originals with a film noir tinge, backed by a band that included Bollani, tenor saxophonist Mark Turner, bassist Larry Grenadier, and drummer Paul Motian. Rava broke in a new all-Italian quintet for Tribe, which was issued by ECM in the fall of 2011. Its members included trombonist Gianluca Petrella, pianist Giovanni Guidi, bassist Gabriele Evangelista, and drummer Fabrizio Sferra. Guitarist Giacomo Ancillotto also guested on the set, expanding the lineup on various selections. Rava made a wide left turn for 2012's On the Dance Floor. Amazingly, the trumpeter only became aware of pop singer Michael Jackson's music after his death, and he became obsessed with it. The album, his tribute to what he considers the late singer's contribution to 20th century music, was recorded with Parco della Musica Jazz Lab at the Rome Auditorium; it is entirely comprised of Jackson's material. In 2019, he appeared alongside saxophonist Joe Lovano on the live ECM date Roma. Translate By Google ~ Francesco Martinelli https://www.allmusic.com/artist/enrico-rava-mn0000182392/biography

Personnel:  Barbara Casini (vocals, guitar); Enrico Rava (trumpet, flugelhorn); Mauro Negri (clarinet); Stefano Bollani (piano); Giovanni Tommaso (bass); Roberto Gatto (drums)

Vento

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Enrico Rava - Flashback

Styles: Trumpet Jazz
Year: 2001
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 68:32
Size: 157,6 MB
Art: Front

( 7:15)  1. Misterioso
( 8:35)  2. The Way You Look Tonight
( 8:53)  3. Polka Dots and Moonbeams
( 9:47)  4. Line for Lyons
( 3:07)  5. Nature Boy
(10:28)  6. Old Devil Moon
( 7:01)  7. I'll Close My Eyes
( 5:25)  8. There's No You
( 7:57)  9. Misterioso - 2nd emotion

This hugely popular trumpet player (born in Trieste, Italy in 1939) almost single-handedly brought Italian jazz to international attention. He began playing Dixieland trombone in Turin, but after hearing Miles Davis, switched instruments and embraced the modern style. Other key meetings were with Gato Barbieri, with whom he recorded movie soundtracks in 1962, and Chet Baker. He began to play with Steve Lacy; he also teamed up with South African expatriates Louis Moholo and John Dyani and recorded The Forest and the Zoo (ESP) live in Argentina. In 1967, he moved to New York, playing with Roswell Rudd, Marion Brown, Rashied Ali, Cecil Taylor, and Charlie Haden. In a brief return to Europe, Rava recorded with Lee Konitz (Stereokonitz, RCA) and Manfred Schoof (European Echoes, FMP). From 1969 to 1976, he was back in New York, recording Escalator Over the Hill with Carla Bley's Jazz Composers' Orchestra. After his first album as a leader, Il Giro del Giorno in 80 Mondi (Black Saint), he began to lead his own pianoless quartets and quintets. His recorded output numbers 100 records, 30 as a leader. ECM has reissued some of his essential recordings of the '70s, like The Pilgrim and the Stars, The Plot, and Enrico Rava Quartet, while Soul Note and Label Bleu published CDs by his innovative Electric Five (in reality a sextet, as he always excludes himself from the count), which includes two electric guitars. 

With keyboard master Franco D'Andrea and trumpeter Paolo Fresu, Rava recorded Bix and Pop (Philology) and Shades of Chet, tributes to Bix Beiderbecke and Armstrong, and to Chet Baker, respectively. Also of note are Rava, L'opera Va and Carmen, gorgeous readings of opera arias. In 2001, he created a new quintet with young talents Gianluca Petrella, Stefano Bollani, Rosario Bonaccorso, and Roberto Gatto, and toured with old friends Roswell Rudd and Gato Barbieri, releasing Easy Living with them in 2004 on ECM. Three years later, after Bollani, who had struck out as a solo player, was replaced by Andrea Pozza, The Words and the Days came out. In 2007, Rava and pianist Stefano Bollani released The Third Man on ECM. Rava followed the released in 2009 with New York Days, a collection of moody originals with a film noir tinge, backed by a band that included Bollani, tenor saxophonist Mark Turner, bassist Larry Grenadier, and drummer Paul Motian. Rava broke in a new all-Italian quintet for Tribe, which was issued by ECM in the fall of 2011. 

Its members included trombonist Gianluca Petrella, pianist Giovanni Guidi, bassist Gabriele Evangelista, and drummer Fabrizio Sferra. Guitarist Giacomo Ancillotto also guested on the set, expanding the lineup on various selections. Rava made a wide left turn for 2012's On the Dance Floor. Amazingly, the trumpeter only became aware of pop singer Michael Jackson's music after his death, and he became obsessed with it. 

The album, his tribute to what he considers the late singer's contribution to 20th century music, was recorded with Parco della Musica Jazz Lab at the Rome Auditorium; it is entirely comprised of Jackson's material.~ Francesco Martinelli https://www.allmusic.com/artist/enrico-rava-mn0000182392/biography

Personnel:  Enrico Rava (tp, flgh), Gianni Basso (tenor sax), Stefano Bollani (p), Ares Tavolazzi (bass), Massimo Manzi (drums)

Flashback

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Franco Ambrosetti - Grazie Italia

Styles: Trumpet Jazz
Year: 2000
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 66:48
Size: 155,7 MB
Art: Front

(6:20)  1. Roma non fà la stupida
(5:52)  2. Volare (Nel blu dipinto di blu)
(3:37)  3. Vecchio frack
(7:48)  4. Tintarella di luna
(5:31)  5. E se domani
(6:56)  6. Donna
(4:55)  7. E la chiamano estate
(8:10)  8. Le tue mani
(9:05)  9. Caruso
(4:42) 10. Nun è peccato
(3:48) 11. Che cosa c'è

Franco Ambrosetti has had dual careers as a very successful businessman, and as a fine trumpeter and flügelhornist inspired by Freddie Hubbard and Miles Davis. His father Flavio Ambrosetti was an excellent saxophonist. Franco had piano lessons for eight years but is self-taught on trumpet, which he did not take up until he was 17. In 1972, he was one of the founders of the George Gruntz Concert Jazz Band, and through the years he has recorded quite a few worthy hard bop-ish albums for Enja in addition to leading his own groups.~ Scott Yanow https://www.allmusic.com/artist/franco-ambrosetti-mn0000195215/biography

Personnel:  Franco Ambrosetti (trumpet), Furio di Castri (double bass), Alfredo Golino (drums), Antonio Farao (piano), Gabriele Comeglio (alto saxophone), Gianluca Ambrosetti (soprano saxophone), Dado Moroni (piano), Roberto Gatto (drums) ), Maurizio Giammarco (tenor saxophone), Enrico Rava (flugelhorn), Flavio Ambrosetti (tenor saxophone), Franco Ambrosetti (flugelhorn), Enrico Rava (trumpet), Dado Moroni (organ), Alfredo Golino (percussion), Maurizio Giammarco (soprano) saxophone).

Grazie Italia

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Enrico Rava, Ran Blake - Duo En Noir

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 38:19
Size: 87.7 MB
Styles: Trumpet jazz
Year: 2000/2009
Art: Front

[4:05] 1. Nature Boy
[5:09] 2. Vertigo Laura
[2:54] 3. The Spiral Staircase
[1:50] 4. Shake The Cage
[2:30] 5. Certi Angoli
[4:52] 6. There's No You
[3:45] 7. Let's Stay Together
[3:06] 8. I Should Care
[4:37] 9. Tea For Two
[5:26] 10. There's A Small Hotel

Trumpeter Enrico Rava has proven himself adept at virtually every style of jazz, from bop through the avant-garde. For this short recording, he teams up with third-stream pianist Ran Blake in a series of 12 emotionally drenched tunes emphasizing the kind of dark, foreboding atmosphere for which Blake is well-known. Highlights include wonderful interpretations of "Tea for Two," "I Should Care," "Let's Stay Together," a pairing of "Vertigo" and "Laura," and "Nature Boy." Rava does his best to adapt his usually brighter playing to the overall noir atmosphere, and he generally succeeds, making this a must-have for followers of both Blake's and Rava's work. A strong lyrical element permeates, as the two explore all of the nooks and crannies of each tune, often in slow motion. The results speak for themselves, and the enthusiastic live audience was clearly touched. ~Steve Loey

Duo En Noir mc
Duo En Noir zippy

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Enrico Rava - The Monash Sessions

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 74:21
Size: 170.2 MB
Styles: Trumpet jazz
Year: 2014
Art: Front

[ 5:16] 1. Fearless Five
[ 9:26] 2. Theme For Jessica
[ 7:07] 3. Lulu
[10:55] 4. Incognito
[ 7:18] 5. Secrets
[ 5:26] 6. Autobiografia
[ 8:11] 7. Interiors
[ 3:59] 8. Certi Angoli Segreti
[ 5:38] 9. Rain
[ 5:20] 10. Spider Blues
[ 5:43] 11. Blancasnow

Enrico Rava (trumpet), Paul Grabowsky (piano), Robert Burke (tenor saxophone), Stephen Magnusson (guitar), Mirko Guerrini (tenor saxophone) and students from the Sir Zelman Cowen School of Music at Monash University. Recorded in December, 2013.

“The Monash University jazz faculty, led by Robert Burke, has invited a series of jazz luminaries to attend the University as Artist In Residence. Previous guests have included George Lewis, George Garzone and Hermeto Pascoal. Normally the guest travels to Melbourne, joins staff and students and their labours are recorded by Jazzhead for release. In this instance, the musicians reversed that rule by travelling to Monash’s Italian campus in Prato to join the great trumpeter, Enrico Rava. The results are well worth the effort, it is very evident that Rava still plays At the top of his game, despite his 75 years; his fluid warm tone is all over this disc. Rava’s contribution extends to his composing all of the tunes.

The potential problem with a concept such as this can be the disparity between the master and the students leading to a disjointed sound where the elder struggles against struggling students. That is not the case here. The addition of the above listen staff on some tracks and the quality of students to a great extent avoids that issue. Indeed, the basic rhythm is provided solely by students, but on listening you wouldn’t know it. The album’s highlight is the ballad ‘Lulu’. Rava’s gorgeous tone bookends evocative solos from Grabowsky and Magnusson. The success of the Monash series is a credit to the faculty and the obvious empathy that developed in a short time between the students and the elder statesman.” ~Jazzwise Magazine

The Monash Sessions

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Bruce Ditmas - Aeray Dust

Styles: Free Jazz, Fusion
Year: 1977
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 34:41
Size: 80,7 MB
Art: Front

(6:34)  1. Aeray Dust
(7:19)  2. Side Looking Radar Image
(3:57)  3. Terminal Velocity
(7:08)  4. Face To Face To Face
(2:48)  5. Tactics Of Despair
(6:53)  6. Thats The Way It Is

Bruce Ditmas (born December 12, 1946) is an American jazz drummer and percussionist. Ditmas was born in Atlantic City but grew up in Miami; his father was a trumpeter in Miami big bands. He studied with Tony Crisetello and then with Stan Kenton at Indiana University and Michigan State University in the early 1960s. After a stint with Ira Sullivan (1962–64), he accompanied singers including Judy Garland, Barbra Streisand, Della Reese, Leslie Uggams, and Sheila Jordan between 1964 and 1970. He moved to New York City in 1966. In the 1970s Ditmas played on Broadway Promises..Promises...then with Joe Newman (1971), Jazz Interactions Orchestra (1971), Gil Evans (1971–77), Enrico Rava (from 1971), Stardrive, Atmospheres, Future Shock (1972), New Wilderness Preservation Band (1972–73), Paul Bley, Lee Konitz, Jaco Pastorius Pat Metheny, Chet Baker (1974–75), and Stan Getz (1975). Later in the 1970s he concentrated on solo performance, including experiments with drum machines. He returned to work with the Evans Orchestra from 1979 to 1985, and lived in Italy in 1986-87, where he played with Dino Saluzzi, Rava, Rita Marcotulli, and Pietro Tonolo. He played with his own trio D3 with Jack DeSalvo and Tony DeCicco from 1988. D3 released Spontaneous Combustion on the Tutu label. In the 1990s he played with Pat Hall and Karl Berger among others. D3 reformed in 2008 and is currently performing as the D3 Standards Trio. In 1990, Ditmas orchestrated the music to an opera by Patricia Burgess, The Dream of Four Directions. He also composed prolifically for film and television; among his credits is the film Deathscape. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Ditmas

Personnel:  Drums, Drum Machine [Moog Drum], Percussion – Bruce Ditmas;  Trumpet – Enrico Rava;  Voice, Percussion – Joan La Barbara

Aeray Dust

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Enrico Rava - Full Of Life

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 61:47
Size: 141.5 MB
Styles: Trumpet jazz
Year: 2003
Art: Front

[6:31] 1. Recuerdos
[5:02] 2. Surrey With The Fringe On Top
[5:53] 3. Mystere
[5:10] 4. Miss MG
[6:25] 5. Moonlight In Vermont
[5:13] 6. Boston April 15th
[5:43] 7. Happiness Is To Win A Big Prize In Cash
[8:24] 8. Nature Boy
[3:45] 9. Full Of Life
[4:34] 10. Visions
[5:02] 11. Miss MG (Alternative Take)

Enrico Rava's new quartet has no piano or guitar. Already this is not only an anomaly for Italian jazzers, but also a rare occasion in the jazz world everywhere today. Rava's haunted mysterious lyricism has become more and more pronounced over the past decade, and his new band reveals the depth of commitment to exploring new avenues in it. With Javier Girotto on baritone and soprano saxophones, sensational bassist Ares Tavolazzi, and Fabrizio Sferra on drums, the makeup of this band is not unlike that of the Gerry Mulligan Quartet with Chet Baker. But makeup is where the similarities end. Rava's sense of adventure is wide-ranging and his restraint in tempo and multi-textural dynamics surpasses the concerns of Mulligan's pioneering experiments in harmony. For instance, the sprightly read of "Surrey With the Fringe on Top" is a commingling of two contrapuntal melodies meeting in the center of a harmonic structure geared to open on either end. On "Mystère," Girotto's statement of theme is halted after six notes before Rava enters, playing around those same notes and eventually creating a melody that whispers by on the changes, or perhaps in spite of them. The funky blues syncopation in Girotto's composition "Miss MG" plays on the staccato concerns of bebop before opening onto a theme that could have been written by Jimmy Giuffre for clarinet -- but here it is scripted for baritone sax and leads into of the most delightfully beguiling solos on the record. On other standards, such as "Moonlight in Vermont" and "Nature Boy," economy of space becomes the prime consideration for how the lyric line is developed. Tempos are taken slowly and purposefully and the ends of lines bleed into one another so that the notion of voice and song is ever present in the improvisation as well as in the theme and its variations. The title cut is the only real anomaly here, with its brisk tempo and flighty front-line statement, moving like something out of a Jack Sheldon/Art Pepper date with shifting time signatures. Ultimately, it's Rava, as soloist, arranger, and bandleader, who holds the keys to the smoky, lustrous world of sound and enchantment. And he uses his musicians to great purpose as they move all around the harmonic world, bringing out hidden delights and wonderfully executed tunes. ~Thom Jurek

Full Of Life

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Robin Kenyatta - Terra Nova

Styles: Flute And Saxophone Jazz
Year: 1973
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 35:52
Size: 82,4 MB
Art: Front

(4:03)  1. Temptation Took Control of Me (And I Fell)
(9:01)  2. Need Your Love So Bad
(4:56)  3. Terra Nova
(3:46)  4. You Are the Sunshine of My Life
(3:51)  5. Freedom Jazz Dance
(3:22)  6. Mother Earth (Provides for Me)
(3:15)  7. Touch
(3:35)  8. Island Shakedown

Backing off a bit from the outright funky fusion of 1972's Gypsy Man, Terra Nova nonetheless finds saxophonist Robin Kenyatta still indulging his newfound love of electricity and rhythmically altered jazz-funk tempered by his newfound love of Caribbean music. This Michael Cuscuna-produced date showcases Kenyatta's alto in three different settings though half of them feature him in an octet with a pair of electric guitarists and two pianists, an organist, bassist, drummer, and no less than Ralph MacDonald on percussion. The feel on most of these cuts is informed by bubbling funky reggae and calypso. Eric Kaz's "Temptation Took Control (And I Fell)" and " Mother Earth (Provides for Me)," Stevie Wonder's "You Are the Sunshine of My Life," Eddie Harris' "Freedom Jazz Dance" and the originals "Island Shakedown" and the title track (that add saxophonist Carlos Garnett, trumpeter Enrico Rava, and trombonist Jonas Gwangwa), are all drenched in these rhythms. The remaining two numbers include a tough, Ray Charles  inflected soul-jazz version of Little Willie John's "Need Your Love So Bad," and the straight up proto-smooth jazz tune "Touch." These latter two numbers make the recording feel a bit schizy, but nonetheless extremely enjoyable though in 1973 it must have felt like it was coming from left-field and has dated well This is a prime example of the wide range of musical interests Kenyatta attempted to integrate during the '70s. Wounded Bird finally made this set available on CD in 2008. ~ Thom Jurek http://www.allmusic.com/album/terra-nova-mw0000793923

Personnel: Robin Kenyatta (flute, saxophone, soprano saxophone, alto saxophone); Betty Jack Davis (vocals); Hux Brown (guitar); Carlos Garnett (tenor saxophone); Enrico Rava (trumpet); Jonas Gwangwa (trombone); Neville Hinds, Pat Rebillot (piano, electric piano); Gladstone Anderson (piano); Sonny Burke , Winston Wright (organ); Ron Carter (bass instrument, electric bass); Jackie Jackson , Boris Gardiner (electric bass); Ray Lucas, Winston Grennan (drums); Ralph MacDonald (congas, percussion).

Terra Nova

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Tiziana Ghiglioni - I'll be Around

Styles: Vocal 
Year: 1989
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 39:22
Size: 90,6 MB
Art: Front

(6:15)  1. Am I Blue
(5:14)  2. They Can't Take that Away from Me
(7:18)  3. You Don't Know what Love Is
(3:21)  4. All or Nothing at All
(5:16)  5. Glad to Be Unhappy
(2:48)  6. I'll Be Around
(2:22)  7. Yesterdays
(4:16)  8. Where Are You?
(0:20)  9. Darn that Dream
(2:08) 10. But not for Me

Tiziana Ghiglioni began his musical training in the seventies, attending the seminars of the pianist and composer Giorgio Gaslini and studying vocal technique with the soprano Gabriella Ravazzi. Among the first professional experience is the theater tour with the Shakespeare / Ellington show with the same Giorgio Gaslini and Giorgio Albertazzi .In the early eighties he began his career as a jazz singer and bandleader immediately obtaining the attention of audiences and critics thanks to the reviews of the journalist and jazz historian Arrigo Polillo who commented very positively both his first public performances is his first album ( "Lonely Woman" of 1981 ) engraved with certain emerging young among them Piero Leveratto and Luigi Bonafede .The reception of the first disc is such that in the second etching ( "Sounds of Love" of 1983 ) the singer is joined by internationally renowned musicians like Kenny Drew on piano and Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen on bass. In subsequent years Ghiglioni affirms its leading role in the Italian jazz working with some of the most famous national jazz musicians (including Luca Flores , Enrico Pieranunzi , Paolo Fresu , Franco D'Andrea , Gianluigi Trovesi and Enrico Rava ) and international ( including Chet Baker , Steve Lacy , Mal Waldron , Paul Bley and Lee Konitz ).

Despite being very appreciated for its executions of the traditional jazz repertoire, Ghiglioni shows a particular predilection for the free jazz and for contamination. She herself said that her passion for jazz was born after listening saxophonist Archie Shepp , one of the protagonists of the movement free. No coincidence that in his first incision is deeply involved with a piece by Ornette Coleman "Lonely Woman", which also became the title of the album. This interest in the avant-garde is witnessed, among others, from the album "SONB" of 1992 , which earned her second place in the ranking of the best albums of the magazine Musica Jazz and the nickname "First Lady" of Italian jazz (for by the then director of Pino Candini magazine). Among the most recent experiments you can cite the disc "Rotella Variations", signed together with the violinist Emanuele Parrini : an ambitious attempt to carry into music by the contemporary suggestions Mimmo Rotella .

In 2009 she was President of the Artistic Committee of the 3rd edition of the Italian Jazz Awards - Luca Flores. He currently resides between Genoa and Milan. He is professor of jazz singing teacher at the conservatory of Rovigo. On 23 and 24 June 2012 was the guest of honor at the end of essay academy year cultural musician "La Fenice" in Gioia del Colle. He sang with the children of the school who have also received from her a certificate of "Master Class". Translate by Google  https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiziana_Ghiglioni

Personnel: Vocals – Tiziana Ghiglioni; Piano – Mal Waldron; Trumpet – Enrico Rava

I'll be Around

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Enrico Rava - Chanson

Styles: Trumpet Jazz
Year: 2002
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 56:49
Size: 131,0 MB
Art: Front

(4:18)  1. Diva
(3:03)  2. Could Be a Tango
(1:51)  3. Bellflower
(2:22)  4. Balls
(4:26)  5. Autoritratto
(2:17)  6. Que Reste -T-Il De Nos Amours
(1:57)  7. Palami D'Amore Mariu'
(3:28)  8. What's New
(2:08)  9. My Crazy Valentine
(3:20) 10. Blue in Green
(4:40) 11. The Door Without the Door
(3:18) 12. Question
(5:14) 13. Giselle
(2:58) 14. Feuiles D'Automne
(3:31) 15. Parks
(7:49) 16. Spleen

This hugely popular trumpet player (born in Trieste, Italy in 1939) almost single-handedly brought Italian jazz to international attention. He began playing Dixieland trombone in Turin, but after hearing Miles Davis, switched instruments and embraced the modern style. Other key meetings were with Gato Barbieri, with whom he recorded movie soundtracks in 1962, and Chet Baker. He began to play with Steve Lacy; he also teamed up with South African expatriates Louis Moholo and John Dyani and recorded The Forest and the Zoo (ESP) live in Argentina. In 1967, he moved to New York, playing with Roswell Rudd, Marion Brown, Rashied Ali, Cecil Taylor, and Charlie Haden. In a brief return to Europe, Rava recorded with Lee Konitz (Stereokonitz, RCA) and Manfred Schoof (European Echoes, FMP). From 1969 to 1976, he was back in New York, recording Escalator Over the Hill with Carla Bley's Jazz Composers' Orchestra. After his first album as a leader, Il Giro del Giorno in 80 Mondi (Black Saint), he began to lead his own pianoless quartets and quintets. His recorded output numbers 100 records, 30 as a leader.

ECM has reissued some of his essential recordings of the '70s, like The Pilgrim and the Stars, The Plot, and Enrico Rava Quartet, while Soul Note and Label Bleu published CDs by his innovative Electric Five (in reality a sextet, as he always excludes himself from the count), which includes two electric guitars. With keyboard master Franco D'Andrea and trumpeter Paolo Fresu, Rava recorded Bix and Pop (Philology) and Shades of Chet, tributes to Bix Beiderbecke and Armstrong, and to Chet Baker, respectively. Also of note are Rava, L'opera Va and Carmen, gorgeous readings of opera arias. In 2001, he created a new quintet with young talents Gianluca Petrella, Stefano Bollani, Rosario Bonaccorso, and Roberto Gatto, and toured with old friends Roswell Rudd and Gato Barbieri, releasing Easy Living with them in 2004 on ECM. Three years later, after Bollani, who had struck out as a solo player, was replaced by Andrea Pozza, The Words and the Days came out. In 2007, Rava and pianist Stefano Bollani released The Third Man on ECM. Rava followed the released in 2009 with New York Days, a collection of moody originals with a film noir tinge, backed by a band that included Bollani, tenor saxophonist Mark Turner, bassist Larry Grenadier, and drummer Paul Motian. Rava broke in a new all-Italian quintet for Tribe, which was issued by ECM in the fall of 2011. Its members included trombonist Gianluca Petrella, pianist Giovanni Guidi, bassist Gabriele Evangelista, and drummer Fabrizio Sferra. Guitarist Giacomo Ancillotto also guested on the set, expanding the lineup on various selections. Rava made a wide left turn for 2012's On the Dance Floor. Amazingly, the trumpeter only became aware of pop singer Michael Jackson's music after his death, and he became obsessed with it. The album, his tribute to what he considers the late singer's contribution to 20th century music, was recorded with Parco della Musica Jazz Lab at the Rome Auditorium; it is entirely comprised of Jackson's material. http://www.allmusic.com/artist/enrico-rava-mn0000182392/biography

Chanson

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Enrico Rava & Paolo Fresu - Shades of Chet

Styles: Trumpet Jazz
Year: 1999
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 58:47
Size: 134,9 MB
Art: Front

(5:28)  1. Doodlin'
(9:55)  2. My funny Valentine
(5:18)  3. Anthropology
(7:27)  4. Retrato em branco e preto
(7:03)  5. Doxy
(7:34)  6. You can't go home again
(7:15)  7. Line for Lyons
(3:29)  8. Strike up the band
(5:14)  9. Donna

Trumpeter and composer Enrico Rava is one of the Italian musicians even more internationally acclaimed jazz. Born in Trieste in 1939, Rava has learned to play by himself under the influence of Miles Davis and Chet Baker. In the 60s he moved first to Rome, where he began playing with musicians as Gato Barbieri and Steve Lacy, and then in Buenos Aires and New York. During his long career Rava has collaborated with major names in jazz (John Abercrombie, Lee Konitz, Pat Metheny) and pop music (Gino Paoli, Ornella Vanoni) and has also published numerous discs of their group leader. 

~ Mariano Prunes  https://itunes.apple.com/it/artist/enrico-rava/id6473819#fullText

Personnel: Enrico Rava - trumpet, fluegelhorn;  Paolo Fresu - trumpet, fluegelhorn;  Stefano Bollani – piano;  Enzo Pietropaoli - double bass;  Roberto Gatto - drums

Shades of Chet

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