Enrico Rava (born 20 August 1939), is an Italian jazz trumpeter. He started on trombone, then changed to the trumpet after hearing

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Career

He was born in

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, Italy.

His first commercial work was as a member of

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's Italian quintet in the mid-1960s; in the late 1960s he was a member of Steve Lacy's group. In 1967, Rava moved to New York City and, one month later, became a member of the group Gas Mask, which had one album released on Tonsil Records in 1970. In the 1970s and 1980s, he worked with John Abercrombie,

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, Richard Galliano,

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Cecil Taylor Cecil Percival Taylor (March 25, 1929April 5, 2018) was an American pianist and poet. Taylor was classically trained and was one of the pioneers of free jazz. His music is characterized by an energetic, physical approach, resulting in complex ...

, and

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. He has also worked with Carla Bley,

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, and

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. Chiefly an exponent of

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jazz, Rava has also played in

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settings. With trumpeter

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, Rava recorded four albums on the influence of

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, and Miles Davis. Also of note are his albums ''Rava'', ''L'Opera Va' '' and ''Carmen'', which are his interpretations of operatic arias and overtures. In 2001, he founded a quintet with pianist Stefano Bollani and toured with Gato Barbieri and

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. In the trio Europeans, he worked with

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and Swiss percussionist Reto Weber. In June 2005, Rava was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Music from

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at the twentieth anniversary of jazz education at the Umbria Jazz Festival, in Perugia, Italy.

Discography

As leader/co-leader

* '' Il Giro Del Giorno in 80 Mondi'' (

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, 1972) * ''Katcharpari'' ( MPS/

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, 1973) * '' The Pilgrim and the Stars'' ( ECM, 1975) * ''Pupa o Crisalide'' (

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, 1975) * ''"Quotation Marks"'' ( Japo, 1976) * ''

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'' (ECM, 1977) * '' Enrico Rava Quartet'' (ECM, 1978) * ''Ah'' Enrico Rava (ECM 1980) * ''Nexus Meets Enrico Rava'' (Four Leaf Clover 1984) * ''Secrets'' (Soul Note, 1987) * ''

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'' with

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(ECM, 1987) * ''Quatre'' with D'Andrea, Vitous, Humair (Gala, 1989) * ''Earthcake'' with D'Andrea, Vitous, Humair (Gala, 1991) * ''Rava L'Opera Va'' (Label Bleu, 1993) * ''Chanson'' (Gala, 1994) * ''Nausicaa'' with

Enrico Pieranunzi Enrico Pieranunzi (born 5 December 1949) is an Italian jazz pianist. He combines classical technique with jazz. Biography The son of Renata Brillantini and Alvaro Pieranunzi, Enrico Pieranunzi was encouraged to study music at a young age. Hi ...

(EGEA, 1994) * ''Bella'' with Pieranunzi, Pietropaoli, Gatto (Philology, 1994) * ''Carmen'' (Label Bleu, 1995) * '' Electric Five'' with

Gianluigi Trovesi Gianluigi Trovesi (born 1944) is an Italian jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, and composer. He has won various Italian jazz awards. He also teaches in Italy. Early life Trovesi was born in Nembro near Bergamo in Lombardy in 1944. He studied harmony ...

(Soul Note, 1995) * ''For Bix and Pops'' (Philology, 1996) * ''Noir'' (Label Bleu, 1996) * ''Italian Ballads'' (Venus, 1996) * ''Icon'' with Claudio Fasoli, Franco D'Andrea, (Flex, 1998) * ''Ragazzi Selvaggi'' (Ricordi, 1998) * ''Certi Angoli Segreti'' (Label Bleu, 1998) * ''Rava Plays Rava'' (Philology, 1999) * ''Duo En Noir'' with

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(Between the Lines, 1999) * ''Shades of Chet'' (Via Veneto, 1999) * ''Renaissance'' (Venus, 2002) * ''Montreal Diary'' (Label Bleu, 2002) * ''Smiling in Hollywood'' (GMG Music, 2002) * ''What a Day!!!'' (Platinum, 2002) * ''Full of Life'' (CAM Jazz, 2003) * '' Easy Living'' (ECM, 2004) * '' Tati'' (ECM, 2005) * ''Jazzitaliano Live 2006'' (Casa Del Jazz, 2006) * '' The Words and the Days'' (ECM, 2007) * ''

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'' (ECM, 2007) * '' New York Days'' (ECM, 2009) * ''Jazzitaliano Live 2009'' (Casa Del Jazz, 2009) * ''

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'' (ECM, 2011) * '' Rava on the Dance Floor'' (ECM, 2012) – live recorded in 2011 * ''The Monash Sessions'' (Jazzhead, 2014) * ''

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'' (ECM, 2015) * ''My Songbook'' (Casa Del Jazz, 2016) * ''Roma'' with

(ECM, 2019) * ''Edizione Speziale'' (ECM, 2021) * ''The Song Is You'' with

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(ECM, 2022) – recorded in 2021 * '' 2 Blues for Cecil'' with

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and William Parker (TUM, 2022) – recorded in 2021

As member

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* ''20th Anniversary Tour'' (Konnex, 1997) * ''At the Philharmonic Cologne'' (MA Music, 1989)

Globe Unity Orchestra The Globe Unity Orchestra is a free jazz ensemble. Globe Unity was formed in autumn 1966 with a commission received by Alexander von Schlippenbach from the Berlin Jazz Festival. It had its debut at the Berliner Philharmonie on 3 November combini ...

* ''Jahrmarkt & Local Fair'' (Po Torch, 1977) * ''Pearls'' (FMP, 1977) * ''Compositions'' (Japo, 1980) * ''Baden-Baden '75'' (FMP, 2011)

Italian Instabile Orchestra The Italian Instabile Orchestra (IIO) is an eighteen piece experimental big band that performs orchestral jazz and avant-garde jazz. Its members include Alberto Mandarini, Bruno Tommaso, Carlo Actis Dato, Daniele Cavallanti, Eugenio Colombo, Gi ...

* ''Italian Instabile Festival'' (Leo, 1998) * ''Litania Sibilante'' (Enja, 2000) * ''Previsioni Del Tempo = Forecast'' (Imprint, 2002)

As sideman

With

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* ''Blue Woods'' (Philology, 2002) * ''Tea for Two'' (Philology, 2005) With

* ''Live'' (Ictus, 2002) * ''Doctor Faustus'' (Ictus, 2006) With

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* ''Nuovi Sentimenti Suite'' (La Voce Del Padrone, 1966) * ''Message'' (BASF, 1973) With Steve Lacy * ''

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'' (GTA, 1966) * '' The Forest and the Zoo'' (

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, 1967) * ''Roba'' (Saravah, 1972) * ''Let's Call This'' (Hat Art, 1986) With

* '' Numatik Swing Band'' (JCOA, 1973) * ''

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'' (Arista/Freedom, 1976) * ''

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'' (Philips, 1979) With

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* ''Aeray Dust'' (Chiaroscuro, 1977) * ''Yellow Wizard'' (Wizard, 1977) – recorded in 1976 With others *

Nicola Arigliano Nicola Arigliano (6 December 1923 – 30 March 2010) was an Italian jazz singer, musician, and occasional actor. Born in Squinzano, Province of Lecce, at young age he ran away from home because of the humiliations received even by family members d ...

, ''Go Man!'' (NuN 2001) *

Barry Altschul Barry Altschul (born January 6, 1943, New York City) is a free jazz and hard bop drummer who first came to notice in the late 1960s for performing with pianists Paul Bley and Chick Corea. Biography Altschul is of Russian Jewish heritage, the s ...

, ''Irina'' (Soul Note, 1983) *

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, ''No Man Is an Island'' (Douglas Music 1997) * Carla Bley, '' Escalator over the Hill'' (JCOA, 1971) *

Salvatore Bonafede Salvatore Bonafede (born August 4, 1962) is an Italian composer and pianist. Early life Son of jewellers, Bonafede was born in Palermo on 4 August 1962. He started playing the piano at the age of four and became interested in jazz thanks to hi ...

, ''Journey to Donnafugata'' (CAM Jazz, 2004) *

Dollar Brand Abdullah Ibrahim (born Adolph Johannes Brand on 9 October 1934 and formerly known as Dollar Brand) is a South African pianist and composer. His music reflects many of the musical influences of his childhood in the multicultural port areas of Cap ...

, ''African Space Program'' (Enja, 1974) *

Barbara Casini Barbara Casini (born 1954 in Florence) is an Italian jazz vocalist and guitarist. While studying piano, she was exposed to bossa nova at the age of 15, which had a marked influence on her musical life. After graduating with a degree in psycho ...

, ''Vento'' (Label Bleu, 2000) *

Mario Castelnuovo Mario Castelnuovo (born 25 January 1955) is an Italian singer-songwriter and composer. Life and career Born in Rome, after the diploma in surveying Castelnuovo studied French literature at the university, specializing in Provençal and Troubadou ...

, ''Come Sara Mio Figlio'' (RCA Italiana 1991) *

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, ''Gris'' (Label Bleu, 1990) *

Ivano Fossati Ivano Alberto Fossati (born 21 September 1951) is an Italian pop singer from Genoa. He was a member of the progressive rock group Delirium and has worked with Fabrizio De André, Riccardo Tesi, Anna Oxa, Mia Martini, Ornella Vanoni, Shirley Bass ...

, ''La Disciplina Della Terra'' (Columbia, 2000) *

Roberto Gatto Roberto Gatto is an Italian jazz drummer, born October 6, 1958 in Rome. He has performed with Lee Konitz, Chet Baker, Bob Berg, Tommy Flanagan, Joe Zawinul, and Joe Lovano. He has composed film music, is the leader of his own jazz group and a ...

, ''Roberto Gatto Plays Rugantino'' (CAM Jazz, 2000) *

George Gruntz George Gruntz (24 June 1932 – 10 January 2013) was a Swiss jazz pianist, organist, harpsichordist, keyboardist, and composer known for the George Gruntz Concert Big Band and his work with Phil Woods, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Don Cherry, Chet Baker, ...

, ''Happening Now!'' (hat ART, 1988) *

Gunter Hampel Gunter Hampel (born 31 August 1937) is a German jazz vibraphonist, clarinettist, saxophonist, flautist, pianist, and composer. He became dedicated to free jazz in the 1960s, developing a record label (Birth Records) and working with Jeanne Lee, ...

, ''Angel'' (Birth, 1972) *

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, ''The State Between Us'' (Accidental, 2019) *

ICP Orchestra Instant Composers Pool (ICP) is an independent Dutch jazz and improvised music label and orchestra. Founded in 1967, the label takes its name from the notion that improvisation is "instant composition". The ICP label has published more than 50 r ...

, ''Live Soncino'' (Instant Composers Pool, 1979) *

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, ''Jazz a Confronto 26'' (Horo, 1976) *

Robin Kenyatta Robin Kenyatta (March 6, 1942 – October 26, 2004) was an American jazz alto saxophonist. Early life Born Robert Prince Haynes in Moncks Corner, South Carolina, Kenyatta grew up in New York City and began playing the saxophone at age 14. He was ...

, ''Terra Nova'' (Atlantic, 1973) *

, ''L'Age Mur'' (Philology, 1998) *

Jimmy Lyons Jimmy Lyons (December 1, 1931 – May 19, 1986) was an American alto saxophone player. He is best known for his long tenure in the Cecil Taylor Unit. Lyons was the only constant member of the band from the mid-1960s until his death. Taylor neve ...

, ''Give It Up'' (Black Saint, 1985) *

Rita Marcotulli Rita Marcotulli (born 10 March 1959) is an Italian jazz pianist and composer. Career Born in Rome, Marcotulli is the daughter of a sound engineer who collaborated with Nino Rota and Ennio Morricone, among others. She started playing piano at ...

, ''The Woman Next Door'' (Label Bleu, 1998) * Gas Mask, ''Their first album'' (Tonsil, 1970) * Banda Osiris, ''L'Imbalsamatore'' (Radiofandango, 2002) *

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, ''Nimeno'' (Label Bleu, 1991) *

Gianluca Petrella Gianluca Petrella is an Italian jazz trombonist. In 2001 he won Italy's Django d'Or Award as well as Musica Jazz's annual critics poll as Best Young Talent. In 2006 and 2007 he was featured in ''Down Beat'' magazine, winning their award for "Bes ...

, ''Il Bidone'' (Spacebone, 2013) *

, ''Ma L'Amore No'' (Soul Note, 1997) *

Enzo Pietropaoli Enzo Pietropaoli (born in 1955) is an Italian jazz bassist. In 1987 with the group Lingomania; in 1988 and 1989 with Enrico Pieranunzi Space Jazz Trio; and in 1999, 2001 and 2003 with Doctor 3 group (with pianist Danilo Rea and drummer Fabrizio Sfe ...

, ''To...'' (Sentemo, 1992) * Quatre, ''Earthcake'' (Label Bleu, 1991) *

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, ''Malia'' (Sony, 2015) * Massimo Ranieri, ''Malia Parte II'' (NAR, 2016) *

, ''Inner Smile'' (Dreyfus, 2011) *

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, ''European Echoes'' (FMP, 1969) * Renato Sellani, ''A Mina'' (Philology, 2004) *

Archie Shepp Archie Shepp (born May 24, 1937) is an American jazz saxophonist, educator and playwright who since the 1960s has played a central part in the development of avant-garde jazz. Biography Early life Shepp was born in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, but ...

, ''

Little Red Moon ''Little Red Moon'' is an album by the American jazz saxophonist Archie Shepp recorded in 1985 and released on the Italian Black Saint/Soul Note, Soul Note label.

'' (Soul Note, 1986) *

, ''

Winged Serpent (Sliding Quadrants) ''Winged Serpent (Sliding Quadrants)'' is an album by Cecil Taylor recorded in Milan, Italy on October 22–24, 1984 and released on the Soul Note label. The album features performances by Taylor with Jimmy Lyons, Enrico Rava, Tomasz Stanko, Fra ...

'' (Soul Note, 1985) * Cecil Taylor, ''

Alms/Tiergarten (Spree) ''Alms/Tiergarten (Spree)'' is a live album by Cecil Taylor with the Cecil Taylor European Orchestra recorded in Berlin on July 2, 1988, as part of month-long series of concerts by Taylor and released on the FMP label. Critical reception The Al ...

'' (FMP, 1989) *

Gianmaria Testa Gianmaria Testa (17 October 1958 – 30 March 2016) was an Italian singer-songwriter and guitarist. Testa began musical performances in 1990 and in the early 1990s, he won two consecutive top prizes at the Recanati Festival. His first album "Mon ...

, ''Altre Latitudinii'' (Le Chant Du Monde, 2003) *

, ''Jazzitaliano Live 2007'' (Casa Del Jazz, 2007) *

Piero Umiliani Piero Umiliani (17 July 1926 – 14 February 2001) was an Italian composer of film scores. Biography Umiliani was born in Florence, Tuscany. Like many of his Italian colleagues at that time, he composed the scores for many exploitation fil ...

, ''Una Bella Grinta'' (CAM Jazz, 1965) *

Ornella Vanoni Ornella Vanoni (; born 22 September 1934) is an Italian singer-songwriter and actress. She is one of the longest-standing Italian artists, having started performing in 1956. She has released about 112 works between LP, EPs and greatest hits alb ...

, ''Ti'' (Columbia/Sony 2004) *

Barney Wilen Bernard "Barney" Jean Wilen (4 March 1937 – 25 May 1996) was a French tenor and soprano saxophonist and jazz composer. Life Wilen was born in Nice, France; his father was an American dentist turned inventor, and his mother was French. He began ...

, ''Passione'' (Venus, 1995)

References

External links

Official site

Interview with Enrico Rava
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