https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFczSmVMfp4

#music #jazz #fusion #EnricoRava

The Forest and the Zoo is an album by Steve Lacy. It was released by ESP.

The music comes from a concert in Argentina.[2] The quartet is made up of Lacy on soprano saxophone, Enrico Rava on trumpet, Johnny Dyani on bass, and Louis Moholo on drums.

The Allmusic review by Thom Jurek awarded the album 3½ stars stating "This is not normally considered an essential part of Lacy's very large catalog, but in the 21st century it does deserve to be heartily and critically reexamined. The cover painting by the late artist Bob Thompson makes the set worth owning simply for its beauty. ".[2] An All About Jazz reviewer concluded: "Rather than the liberating spirituality sought after in so much free jazz Lacy's unit remains light-hearted and whimsical, even as it soars above the ground below."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kIFRYjTAfw&list=RD-kIFRYjTAfw&start_radio=1

#SteveLacy #EnricoRava #JohnnyDyani #LouisMoholo #Jazz #FreeJazz #Music #ESPDisk

Sortie by Steve Lacy, released on Polydor in 1966.

ILY wrote on Rate My Music:

Delineated by the 11-minute "Sortie", a scattered and disconnected fresco of bright-colored convulsions, Sortie delivered constant battles of mutual completeness between Steve Lacy on the saxophone and Enrico Rava on the trumpet, predating the manic funk-jazz of Miles Davis in the '70s. "Black Elk" and the 14-minute "Living T Blues" were cut from the same cloth, both depicting eye-catching episodes of feverish imagination and contained shudders.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCT-ZXM4dL0&list=RDXCT-ZXM4dL0&start_radio=1

#SteveLacy #FreeJazz #SopranoSax #EnricoRava #Jazz #Music

Ended the week and started the weekend with The Song Is You by Enrico Rava / Fred Hersch , released on ECM In 2022.

Tyran Grillo wrote for ECM Reviews:

Pianist Fred Hersch makes his ECM debut in intimately grand fashion with maestro Enrico Rava on flugelhorn. Their meeting at Lugano’s Auditorio Stelio Molo RSI yields some of the most effortless jazz you’ll likely hear this year. Hersch’s opening embrace eases us into Antônio Carlos Jobim’s “Retrato em Branco e Preto” as if the set could open no other way, fanning expository poetry in place of lantern flame. An old-town quality prevails, navigating cobblestone streets on tiptoe yet never losing its footing.

https://ecmreviews.com/2022/09/05/enrico-rava-fred-hersch-the-song-is-you-ecm-2746/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcNUb1ptDfQ&list=OLAK5uy_neaQOPmGmbkqd7_isjFW4Uil5aj9pF_rw

#EnricoRava #flugelhorn #FredHersch #jazzpiano #ecm #ecmreviews #jazz #ManfredEicher

Another entry from my Best of Jazz in 2022 list:

The Song Is You — Enrico Rava & Fred Hersch (ECM)

This is one of those unexpected pairings that makes you wonder why it didn’t happen years ago. Both play with a wise beauty, but trumpeter Rava plays with a kind of elegiac gratitude for a long, well-lived life of music

#jazz #enricorava #fredhersch
https://artsfuse.org/266318/arts-feature-the-best-jazz-albums-of-2022/