Rava on the Dance Floor

This live album breaks with Enrico Rava's own traditions. In his ECM albums, back to 1974's The Pilgrim And The Stars, Rava has set his own compositions in the foreground. Not this time. On Rava on the Dance Floor the great Italian trumpeter enthusiastically turns his attention to the musical universe of Michael Jackson. And in this unexpected context, drawing also upon the energy of the Parco della Musica Jazz Lab band, he delivers impassioned trumpet playing, vaulting above the spirited arrangements by Mauro Ottolini.

Personnel: Enrico Rava (trumpet), Andrea Tofanelli, Claudio Corvini (trumpet, flugelhorn), Mauro Ottolini (trombone, tuba), Daniele Tittarelli (alto saxophone, flute), Dan Kinzelman (tenor saxophone, clarinet, bass clarinet), Franz Bazzani (keyboard), Giovanni Guidi (piano, Fender Rhodes, toy piano), Dario Deidda (bass), Marcello Giannini (electric guitar), Zeno de Rossi (drums), Ernesto Lopez Maturell (percussion)