Enrico Rava - New York Days

180g Vinyl Double LP Reissue!

New York Days features Italy’s highly inventive jazz musicians Enrico Rava and protégé Stefano Bollani, together with three leading American jazzmen: master drummer Paul Motian, bassist Larry Grenadier, and, in his ECM debut, saxophonist Mark Turner. This album is a magical European / American collaboration, recorded in the jazz capital of the world.

The album is both a transatlantic project and a kind of ‘homecoming.’ Rava found his musical direction while living in New York in the late 60s/early 70s. Since then, an increasingly ‘Italian’ lyricism has also made itself felt in his playing. Rava’s soulful trumpet is strongly contrasted with the lean, analytical playing of Mark Turner. Bollani’s playful harmonic imagination shapes bridges between them. Larry Grenadier is "present and focused in every moment” as Rava says, and Paul Motian is as idiosyncratically creative as ever.

The Rava/Bollani/Motian trio album of 2004, Tati, was a popular and critical success. New York Days takes the combination to the next level.

"The neo-noir textures of Italian trumpeter Enrico Rava's fine ECM release, NEW YORK DAYS, recall evocative, jazz-based film scores such as Gato Barbieri's LAST TANGO IN PARIS or Miles Davis's ELEVATOR TO THE GALLOWS...Rava conjures a rain-soaked, black-and-white urban fantasia on a finely produced, 77-minute set of moody originals...one of the outstanding jazz releases of 2009." -Richard Mortifoglio, allmusic.com

Features:
• 180g Audiophile High Quality Pressing
• Double LP
• Gatefold Jacket

Musicians:
Enrico Rava, trumpet
Stefano Bollani, piano
Mark Turner, tenor saxophone
Larry Grenadier, double-bass
Paul Motian, drums

Selections:
1. Lulu
2. Improvisation I
3. Outsider
4. Certi Angoli Segreti
5. Interiors
6. Thank You, Come Again
7. Count Dracula
8. Luna Urbana
9. Improvisation II
10. Lady Orlando
11. Blancasnow