Easy Living (Enrico Rava album)

Easy Living is an album by Italian jazz trumpeter and composer Enrico Rava recorded in June 2003 and released on ECM the following year. The quintet features trombonist Gianluca Petrella and rhythm section Stefano Bollani, Rosario Bonaccorso and Roberto Gatto.[1]

Easy Living
Studio album by
Released2004
RecordedJune 2003
StudioArtesuono Recording Studio
Udine, Italy
GenreJazz
Length54:44
LabelECM
ECM 1760
ProducerManfred Eicher
Enrico Rava chronology
Full of Life
(2003)
Easy Living
(2004)
Enrico Rava Plays Miles Davis
(2004)

Reception edit

The AllMusic review by Thom Jurek awarded the album 4½ stars stating, "Easy Living is a relaxed, low-key affair that is nonetheless fully engaged and deceptive in its pastoral appearance... for all of its warmth and beauty, for all of its free-flowing interplay between the front line and the shimmering rhythms, this is as adventurous and poetic as jazz can be in the new century."[2]

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic     [2]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings    [3]

Track listing edit

All tracks are written by Enrico Rava, except as noted.

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Cromosomi" 8:26
2."Drops" 2:28
3."Sand" 9:18
4."Easy Living"4:14
5."Algir Dalbughi" 6:36
6."Blancasnow" 2:35
7."Traveling Night" 7:12
8."Hornette and the Drums Thing" 7:10
9."Rain" 6:46

Personnel edit

References edit

  1. ^ ECM discography Archived 2009-12-26 at the Wayback Machine accessed October 26, 2011
  2. ^ a b Jurek, T. Allmusic Review accessed October 26, 2011
  3. ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1194. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.