Enrico Rava at 80

Enrico’s early ECM album, 'The Pilgrim and the Stars' (1975), already set high standards. Since then the great trumpeter has gone from strength to strength, releasing a series of truly exceptional albums, including 'Tati', 'The Words and The Days', 'The Third Man', 'New York Days' and 'Tribe', which presents Rava at his most lyrically inspired, leading a band of bright young talents.
His band has become a kind of finishing school for Italian jazz musicians, and many of his sidemen have gone on to become distinguished bandleaders in their own right, recent examples being Stefano Bollani, Giovanni Guidi and Gianluca Petrella.