Edizione Speciale
Enrico Rava (trumpet, flugelhorn), Francesco Bearzatti (tenor saxophone), Francesco Diodati (guitar), Giovanni Guidi (piano), Gabriele Evangelista (double bass), Enrico Morello (drums)
Rava’s ensemble of young, rising Italian jazz stars, to whom individually and collectively he has acted as mentor, make excellent contributions to a celebratory, adventurous, yet poetic album...
Edizione Speciale
Enrico Rava (trumpet, flugelhorn), Francesco Bearzatti (tenor saxophone), Francesco Diodati (guitar), Giovanni Guidi (piano), Gabriele Evangelista (double bass), Enrico Morello (drums)
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Rava’s ensemble of young, rising Italian jazz stars, to whom individually and collectively he has acted as mentor, make excellent contributions to a celebratory, adventurous, yet poetic album...
About
Enrico Rava, long a key figure in European jazz, has been a mentor for successive generations of Italian players. His celebratory Edizione special, recorded live at the Middelheim Festival in Antwerp, brings together a team of young improvisers who play his music with fire and elan, accompanying his fountain of melodic ideas, while also taking advantage of the free space that the extensive musical forms open up.
The group's repertoire includes material from the trumpeter/flugelhornist's early recording Enrico Rava Quartet (1978) and Wild Dance (2015), plus a rendition of "Once Upon a Summertime" - the English version of Michel Legrand's "La valse des lilas" - as well as the universally known Cuban song "Quizas, Quizas, Quizas".
Contents and tracklist
- Enrico Rava (trumpet), Enrico Rava (flugelhorn), Francesco Bearzatti (tenor saxophone), Francesco Diodati (guitar), Giovanni Guidi (piano), Gabriele Evangelista (double bass), Enrico Morello (drums)
- Recorded: 2019-08-16
- Recording Venue: Jazz Middelheim, Antwerp
- Enrico Rava (flugelhorn), Francesco Bearzatti (tenor saxophone), Francesco Diodati (guitar), Giovanni Guidi (piano), Gabriele Evangelista (double bass), Enrico Morello (drums)
- Recorded: 2019-08-16
- Recording Venue: Jazz Middelheim, Antwerp
- Enrico Rava (flugelhorn), Francesco Bearzatti (tenor saxophone), Francesco Diodati (guitar), Giovanni Guidi (piano), Gabriele Evangelista (double bass), Enrico Morello (drums)
- Recorded: 2019-08-16
- Recording Venue: Jazz Middelheim, Antwerp
- Enrico Rava (flugelhorn), Francesco Bearzatti (tenor saxophone), Francesco Diodati (guitar), Giovanni Guidi (piano), Gabriele Evangelista (double bass), Enrico Morello (drums)
- Recorded: 2019-08-16
- Recording Venue: Jazz Middelheim, Antwerp
- Enrico Rava (flugelhorn), Francesco Bearzatti (tenor saxophone), Francesco Diodati (guitar), Giovanni Guidi (piano), Gabriele Evangelista (double bass), Enrico Morello (drums)
- Recorded: 2019-08-16
- Recording Venue: Jazz Middelheim, Antwerp
- Enrico Rava (flugelhorn), Francesco Bearzatti (tenor saxophone), Francesco Diodati (guitar), Giovanni Guidi (piano), Gabriele Evangelista (double bass), Enrico Morello (drums)
- Recorded: 2019-08-16
- Recording Venue: Jazz Middelheim, Antwerp
Awards and reviews
December 2021 - January 2022
Rava’s ensemble of young, rising Italian jazz stars, to whom individually and collectively he has acted as mentor, make excellent contributions to a celebratory, adventurous, yet poetic album that numbers alongside Easy Living as among Rava’s finest for the ECM label.
February 2022
Despite looking back on his career, Rava’s playing brings a melodic heat throughout, with an unabated sense of the sense of exploration that’s marked his career, and his excellent band not only matches him note for note, but they push him, too.
