Enrico Rava


Enrico Rava, is an Italian jazz trumpeter. He started on trombone, then changed to the trumpet after hearing Miles Davis.

Career

He was born in Trieste, Italy.
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 released on Tonsil Records in 1970.
In the 1970s and 1980s, he worked with John Abercrombie, Andrea Centazzo, Gil Evans, Richard Galliano, Joe Henderson, Joe Lovano, Pat Metheny, Michel Petrucciani, Cecil Taylor, and 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.
In 2023, Rava assembled a band of young Italian jazz musicians called The Fearless Five, consisting of Matteo Paggi on trombone, Francesco Ponticelli on double bass, drummer and singer Evita Polidoro, and guitarist Francesco Diodati, and began touring the major European jazz festivals. In July 2024, he released the album Fearless Five with this new band, featuring new versions of some of his most famous songs such as "Lavori Casalinghi" and "The Trial".

Discography

As leader/co-leader

Il Giro Del Giorno in 80 Mondi Katcharpari The Pilgrim and the Stars Pupa o Crisalide "Quotation Marks" The Plot Enrico Rava Quartet Ah Enrico Rava Opening Night Enrico Rava Quartet Andanada Enrico Rava Quintet Nexus Meets Enrico Rava Secrets Volver (Enrico Rava / [Dino Saluzzi Quintet album)|Volver] with Dino Saluzzi Quatre with D'Andrea, Vitous, Humair Earthcake with D'Andrea, Vitous, Humair Rava L'Opera Va Chanson Nausicaa with Enrico Pieranunzi Bella with Pieranunzi, Pietropaoli, Gatto Carmen Electric Five with Gianluigi Trovesi For Bix and Pops Noir Italian Ballads Icon with Claudio Fasoli, Franco D'Andrea, Ragazzi Selvaggi Certi Angoli Segreti Rava Plays Rava Duo En Noir with Ran Blake Shades of Chet Renaissance Montreal Diary Smiling in Hollywood What a Day!!! Full of Life Easy Living Tati Jazzitaliano Live 2006 The Words and the Days The [Third Man (album)|The Third Man] New York Days Jazzitaliano Live 2009 Tribe Rava on [the Dance Floor] – live recorded in 2011The Monash Sessions Wild Dance My Songbook Roma with Joe Lovano Edizione Speziale The Song Is You with Fred Hersch – recorded in 20212 Blues for Cecil with Andrew Cyrille and William Parker – recorded in 2021
  • ''Fearless Five''

As member

European Jazz Ensemble20th Anniversary Tour At the Philharmonic Cologne
Globe Unity OrchestraJahrmarkt & Local Fair Pearls Compositions Baden-Baden '75
ICP OrchestraLive Soncino ICP Orchestra
Italian Instabile OrchestraItalian Instabile Festival Litania Sibilante
  • ''Previsioni Del Tempo = Forecast''

As sideman

With Gianni BassoBlue Woods Tea for Two
With Andrea CentazzoLive Doctor Faustus
With Giorgio GasliniNuovi Sentimenti Suite Message
With Steve LacySortie The Forest and the Zoo Roba Let's Call This
With Roswell RuddNumatik Swing Band Inside Job Blown Bone
With Bruce DitmasAeray Dust Yellow Wizard – recorded in 1976
With others