Credits:

Enrico Rava

Description:

A new work by Enrico Rava, a veteran of the Italian jazz establishment, is now available.A central figure in the European jazz scene and a mentor to successive generations of Italian players, Rava's celebrated "Edizione special," recorded live at the Middelheim Festival in Antwerp, is an exciting work in which a group of young improvisers play his music The young improvisers play his music with fire and flamboyance, leaning on his fountain of melodic ideas and taking advantage of the free space opened by the wide range of musical forms in this exciting work! The group's repertoire includes material from the trumpeter/flugelhornist's early recordings of the Enrico Rava Quartet (1978) and Wild Dance (2015), as well as the English version of Michel Legrand's "La valse des lilas" and a performance of "Once Upon a Summertime," the English version of Michel Legrand's "La valse des lilas.Including the Cuban standard "Quizas, Quizas, Quizas" that everyone knows! [Personnel] Enrico Rava(tp,flgh) Francesco Bearzatti(ts) Francesco Diodati(g)Giovanni Guidi(p) Gabriele Evangelista(double-b) Enrico Morello:(ds)

Tracklisting:

1.Infant
2.Once Upon A Summertime / Theme for Jessica Tatum
3.Wild Dance
4.The Fearless Five
5.Le Solite Cose / Diva
6.Quizas, Quizas, Quizas