Enrico Rava
The Italian trumpet player Enrico Rava recorded October 1999 with the Michael Flügel Quartet a great live concert at the Birdland Jazz Club of Neuburg. Neuburg is a city in the south of Germany in upper Bavaria. Its jazz club is one of the oldest in Germany. It was founded in 1958, which means that it will celebrate its 50th birthday next year, like the Porgy en Bess Jazz club in Terneuzen (southwest part of the Netherlands) did a few months ago in April of this year.
Enrico Rava is rather unknown here in the Netherlands. He was born in 1943 in Trieste, learned himself to play the trumpet and he started his career with the band of Gato Barbieri in 1964. He toured around the world with Steve Lacy in the 1960s. In the 1970s he played with Roswell Rudd and the Jazz Composer's Orchestra and founded in 1976 his own quartet. During the next decades this quartet consisted different musicians like Roswell Rudd and Giovanni Tommaso to name some.
Nowadays he becomes more and more active as a composer, especially for big bands. He led big bands with special guests like Albert Mangeldorff, Alexander Schlippenbach and Roswell Rudd. Rava is a fiery and lyrical trumpet player, who plays in this album with the Michael Flügel Quartet: Four hungry German lions and a grey Italian wolf - the liner notes say, featuring Michael Flügel at the piano, Frank Lauber on alto saxophone, Dietmar Fuhr at the bass and Dejan Terzic on drums. Half of the tracks are compositions by Enrico Rava, like Diva, a Rava favourite in double waltz-time. My Funny Valentine is one of the standard on this album, a great ballad, made famous by Chet Baker of course.
For me, it was my first introduction to Enrico Rava and it would be great to hear him play somewhere some time.
I found two film fragments I love to share with you where you can hear and see Enrico Rava in concert. Hope you like it.
Round About Midnight
Keep swinging
Hans Koert
keepswinging@live.nl
To my last contribution
MY TURNTABLE
george gershwin/on screen III-early recordings of the 20s (2) = hank mobley/soul station = ted weems o/marvellous = andré popp o/delirium in hi-fi = lennie tristano-warne marsh/intuition = eddie palmieri/vamonos pa'l monte = be bop revisited/vol 2 = enrico rava-michael flügel quartet/live at birdland neuburg = yes2jazz agency/promo cd
Keep Swinging Oscar Aleman Flexible Records Choro Music Hit of the week - Durium
Nederlands ( To the English translation )


Ik vond twee filmregmenten waarin we Enrico Rava bezig zien en horen in zijn eigen kwintet.
Enrico Rava Quintet
Round About Midnight
Keep swinging
Hans Koert
keepswinging@live.nl
Naar mijn laatste bijdrage !
MIJN DRAAITAFEL
george gershwin/on screen III-early recordings of the 20s (2) = hank mobley/soul station = ted weems o/marvellous = andré popp o/delirium in hi-fi = lennie tristano-warne marsh/intuition = eddie palmieri/vamonos pa'l monte = be bop revisited/vol 2 = enrico rava-michael flügel quartet/live at birdland neuburg = yes2jazz agency/promo cd
Keep Swinging Oscar Aleman Flexible Records Choro Music Hit of the week - Durium
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