Enrico Rava
Italian jazz trumpeter

Enrico Rava

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Italian jazz trumpeter
Gender:
Male
Places:
Italy
Is:
MusicianComposerTrumpeterJazz musicianMusic arrangerFilm score composerSinger
Work field:
Film, TV, Stage & RadioMusic
Birth:
20 August 1939(Trieste, regional decentralization entity of Trieste, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Kingdom of Italy)
Star sign:
Leo
Genres:
Jazz
Instruments:
TrumpetFlugelhorn
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Introduction

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

Career

Enrico Rava in 2005

His first commercial work was as a member of Gato Barbieri'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 on Tonsil Records in 1970.

In the 1970s and 1980s he worked withJohn Abercrombie, Andrea Centazzo, Gil Evans, Richard Galliano, Joe Henderson, Joe Lovano, Pat Metheny, Michel Petrucciani, Cecil Taylor, Miroslav Vitouš. He has also worked with Carla Bley, Lee Konitz, Jeanne Lee, Paul Motian, and Roswell Rudd. Chiefly an exponent of bebop jazz, Rava has also played in avant-garde jazz settings.

With trumpeter Paolo Fresu, Rava recorded four albums on the influence of Bix Beiderbecke, Louis Armstrong, Chet Baker, 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 Aldo Romano. In the trio Europeans, he worked with Eberhard Weber and Swiss percussionist Reto Weber.

In June 2005, Rava was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Music from Berklee College of Music at the twentieth anniversary of jazz education at the Umbria Jazz Festival, in Perugia, Italy.

Discography

As leader

  • Il Giro Del Giorno in 80 Mondi (Black Saint, 1972)
  • Katcharpari (MPS/BASF, 1973)
  • The Pilgrim and the Stars (ECM, 1975)
  • The Plot (ECM, 1976)
  • "Quotation Marks" (JAPO, 1976)
  • Enrico Rava Quartet (ECM, 1978)
  • Opening Night (ECM, 1981)
  • Andanada (Soul Note, 1983)
  • String Band (Soul Note, 1984)
  • Nexus Meets Enrico Rava (Four Leaf Clover, 1985)
  • Secrets (Soul Note, 1986)
  • Volver with Dino Saluzzi (ECM, 1986)
  • Animals (Inak, 1987)
  • Nausicaa with Enrico Pieranunzi (EGEA, 1993)
  • Rava, L'Opera Va (Blue, 1993)
  • For Bix and Pops (Philology, 1994)
  • Electric Five with Gianluigi Trovesi (Soul Note, 1994)
  • Italian Ballads with Richard Galliano (Music Masters, 1996)
  • Noir (JMS, 1997)
  • Carmen (Label Bleu, 1997)
  • Certi Angoli Segreti (Label Bleu, 1998)
  • Shades of Chet (Via Veneto Jazz, 1999)
  • Rava Plays Rava (Philology, 1999)
  • Live at Birdland (Challenge, 2000)
  • Duo en Noir with Ran Blake (Between the Lines, 2000 )
  • Beyond Fellini (WEA/Warner, 2002)
  • Renaissance (Venus, 2003)
  • Happiness Is... (Stunt, 2003)
  • Full of Life (CAM Jazz, 2003)
  • Easy Living (ECM, 2003)
  • Montreal Diary/A: Plays Miles Davis (Label Bleu, 2004)
  • Montréal Diary/B (Label Bleu, 2004) with Stefano Bollani
  • Tati (ECM, 2004)
  • Chanson (Duck, 2006)
  • What a Day (Duck, 2006)
  • Quatre (Duck, 2006)
  • The Words and the Days (ECM, 2007)
  • The Third Man (ECM, 2007)
  • Live at JazzBo '90 (Philology, 2007)
  • New York Days (ECM, 2009)
  • Tribe (ECM, 2010)
  • Rava on the Dance Floor (ECM, 2012)
  • The Monash Sessions (Jazzhead, 2013)
  • Wild Dance (ECM, 2015)
  • My Songbook (Casa dell Jazz, 2016)
  • Roma (ECM, 2019) with Joe Lovano

As sideman

With Italian Instabile Orchestra

  • 1991 Live in Noci and Rive-De Gier
  • 1994 Skies of Europe
  • 2002 Previsioni del Tempo: Forecast
  • 2000 Litania Sibilante

With Steve Lacy

  • Sortie (GTA, 1966)
  • The Forest and the Zoo (ESP-Disk, 1967)

With others