Italian trumpeter Enrico Rava doing a tribute to the late King of Pop, Michael Jackson? Italian trumpeter Enrico Rava doing a tribute to the late King of Pop, Michael Jackson, on ECM? If either of ...

You have to be in the mood for this, because most of it is extremely spacey and subdued, but Rava is a wonderful trumpet player, and his quintet play with such delicacy that these nine pieces will ...

No one can ever accuse the Italians of making anaemic art. From Dante to Puccini they have never been frightened of passion and drama. If you don't feel anything when you encounter Italian art, ...

For some, jazz is an either/or: either it's deeply and clearly rooted in the American tradition, or it isn't jazz. What's not necessarily apparent with musicians seemingly distanced from that ...

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With the passing last year of Kenny Wheeler, Enrico Rava assumes the mantle of Europe's elder statesman of the trumpet (at 74, he is three years older than Tomasz Stanko), and there is certainly some ...

It's taken Enrico Rava, the Miles Davis-inspired trumpeter from Trieste, until his 70s to hit the dance floor. This live album is dedicated to Michael Jackson, who Rava said he didn't discover until ...

Italian trumpeter Enrico Rava is normally to be heard playing his own spacious, quietly restrained compositions, but a chance encounter with the music of Michael Jackson shortly after the King of ...