Interview with Sergio Rubini, Enrico Rava Ivan Tagliavia, video and installation
is back stage in the work of Andrea Camilleri's "Requiem for Chris" after the premiere, held in Parma in September 2006 as part of the event ☛ "Estri Summer" , in which the Master Rava was flanked by the actor ☛ Marco Baliani . Saturday 3 and Sunday, November 4, 2007, in the context of the review ☛ "Palermo Teatro Festival , have trod the scene of the New Montevergini actor Sergio Rubini, Enrico Rava and his group," Enrico Rava New Generation "helped as usual by the clarinetist and saxophonist Mauro Negri.
"I known in Torino, my city [...]. Every time I was living in my friend's house Mondini [...] and then I went to see him. I spent the whole day, I had just started playing the trumpet, Chet and gave me advice. He was very generous [...]». "Years later I happened to play with him. I lived in New York ten years, and there rincontrai Chet that he was back playing after long years of silence. I went to see him, we played together for a time shared the same manager. "We were not friends, but somehow there was a relationship that lasted a long time. Then it was one of my myths. When he played he always managed to give the enormous emotions, even when it was in the form or when the band was not much [...]. But he was so strong in this poem , give this time to play was something so innate that even if he had not wanted would still existed. This was the great thing in his life, while the rest appeared to be a total disaster, I would say at all levels. "
«[...] lived a relationship with music encompassing . I remember once we were in Finland, and was depressissimo, was really bad and said he just could no longer live. "But then he went on stage and played absolutely wonderful. "He had this good fortune, which is also the ours, because the emotions that gave us Chet are unique. Listening to his music very often, I listen to them and his many records almost every day. "
"For example I love the album as a trio with Philip Catherine ☛ called Chet's Choice, where there are moments of incredibly unique." «[...] I remember the first time I heard Chet play. It was in Turin, I think in '59. It was a very bad situation for him, he had a group that had picked up in France, and after playing a Dixieland group, which was the attraction of the evening. So when Chet began his set, three-quarters of the people went away, and being there was tremendous emotion. not infatuation, it's a feeling that was repeated over the years, a cool thing that happens when you are faced someone who really has something special to say .
Cover of the 45 No Jazz in Italy 2, March 1960 (Cetra, EPD-37) Titles of pieces: "Theme for Frank" (M. Lama); "Line for Lyons" (G. Mulligan), "Fine and Dandy" (K. Swift & P. \u200b\u200bJames) Training : Enrico Rava, trumpet; Maurizio Lama, piano; Philip Faguttin, double bass, Franco Mondini, battery.
"Interview with Enrico Rava"
About the accompanying CD anthology necessary Notes:
Among other things, the first piece of the CD (Fine and Dandy, Ed) incision is very old ... I put that piece for a historical reason. It belongs to a record that no one knows. E 'engraving of 1960, I was twenty. Seeing him, it seemed that sound more or less sound now, which amazes me, considering I played for just two years. In addition, in that song There is also a dear friend (Franco Mondini), which in those years was the drummer for Chet, and I wanted it to be somehow present in the anthology.
Francesco Ughi, Jazzitalia
"The best musician of Turin was ☛ Franco Mondini, who played drums as a professional. He was a character known throughout Italy, foreigners knew and called him willingly. And so he happened to work with the Europeans on the ball, they passed by Italy and sometimes even abroad, such as Bobby Jaspar and René Thomas. And even with Chet Baker, in the first period in which was in Italy. "
Stock Jazzitalia, Jazz in Turin with Enrico Rava
"Among the young jazz musicians in Turin, Maurizio Lama was playing the piano better. His family was Roman and had moved to Turin because of his father's work. We were close friends, went out on Sunday with the girls. My first groups of modern jazz were with him. "
