Release Date: 19 December 2008
Label: ECM Records
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 602517373228
Genres: Jazz
Description
They have been playing together since the early 1990s, Bollani hailing trumpeter Rava as his mentor, and Rava regarding Bollani as “perhaps the most gifted pianist since Art Tatum”. After Rava’s highly acclaimed “Easy Living” (quintet featuring Bollani) and the Rava/Bollani/Paul Motian collaboration “Tati”, comes this superb duo set, recorded in Lugano in November 2006. Here is marvellous linear playing and melodies plucked from the air, two master improvisers making freely lyrical jazz together – inspired by jazz history, South American music (an important source for both musicians), the Italian song tradition, contemporary composition and more, all developed, under Manfred Eicher’s supervision, into a unique programme. The repertoire includes compositions by each of the protagonists, two takes of Antonio Carlos Jobim’s famous ballad “Retrato Em Branco Y Preto”, a reinvention of “Estate” by the Italian singer Bruno Martino (whose own inspirations included Neapolitan folk song as well as jazz ) and spontaneous –yet profoundly melodic – free improvisation on the title track.
Tracklisting
Hakon Aase; Leo Svensson Sander; Ayumi Tanaka; Ole Morten Vagan; Thomas Stronen
Zakir Hussain; Hariprasad Chaurasia; John McLaughlin; Jan Garbarek
Keith Jarrett
Wu Wei; Martin Stegner; Janne Saksala
John Scofield; Dave Holland
Anouar Brahem; Jan Garbarek; Shaukat Hussain
Zehetmair Quartett
Meredith Monk; Ellen Fisher; Katie Geissinger; Joanna Lynn-Jacobs; Allison Sniffin; John Hollenbeck
Weather Report
Thommy Andersson; Kirk Knuffke; Jose Davila
Stephane Galland; Lucia Pires; Louise van den Heuvel
RVB Quartet
Robin Verheyen; Robyn Schulkowsky; Goeyvaerts String Trio
Rima Khcheich; Maarten Ornstein; Juan Rodriguez; Tony Overwater; Joost Lijbaart
Markus Conrad; Caspar van Meel; Afra Mussawisade; Christoph Konig
Le Monde Merveilleux de Pepito; Alexandra Grimal; Lucia Pires; Lynn Cassiers
