Enrico Rava

Enrico Rava (born 1939 in Trieste) is an Italian jazz trumpeter and bandleader. He started on trombone, switched to trumpet after hearing Miles Davis, and moved between bebop and avant-garde jazz. He is best known for a long series of albums on ECM from the 1970s onward. Enrico Rava first worked with Gato Barbieri in the 1960s and then played in Steve Lacy's group. He moved to New York in 1967, joined Gas Mask and played with Cecil Taylor, Roswell Rudd and Carla Bley.