Enrico Rava

Biography

Enrico Rava is an Italian jazz trumpeter from Trieste, born in 1939, and the most internationally known Italian jazz musician of his generation. After work with *Gato Barbieri* and *Steve Lacy* and years in the New York avant-garde, he became a leading #ECM Records# artist with albums such as 'The Pilgrim and the Stars' (1975), known for a spare, melodic trumpet style drawn from bebop and free jazz.