Enrico Rava Quintet

Secrets is a quintet album by the trumpeter Enrico Rava, recorded in Milan in July 1986 for Soul Note and released in 1987. Rava wrote six of the seven pieces, and the band puts pianist John Taylor next to an electric guitar, in place of a second horn. Two long tracks of almost eleven minutes each, the title piece and Monky Tonk, frame a programme that also runs to short miniatures.

The session was recorded by Giancarlo Barigozzi at his studio in Milan on July 7 and 8, 1986, and produced by Giovanni Bonandrini. Rava plays trumpet and flugelhorn, with Augusto Mancinelli on electric guitar, Taylor on piano, Furio Di Castri on double bass and Bruce Ditmas on drums. The album opens with Cornette, a prelude of just over a minute, before the ten-minute title track. Da Silva comes next at almost ten minutes, then Holiday For Strings, the one piece not by Rava, at a little over three. The second half follows the same plan: Tomo Y Recuerdo at eight minutes, the brief Planet Earth, and Monky Tonk to close, the longest track on the record. The original LP carried liner notes by Gary G. Vercelli.

Soul Note CD 121164-2, which Discogs lists as a reissue manufactured in Italy not before the mid-2000s, of the album first released in 1987 on LP and CD as SN 1164.