Artist: Enrico Rava, The Parco della Musica Jazz Lab
Album: Rava On the Dance Floor (Live at the Rome Auditorium)
Genre: Jazz
Release Date: 2012/2016
Audio Format:: FLAC (tracks) 24 bit, 48 kHz
Duration: 56:23
Total Tracks: 9
Total Size: 662 MB

Tracklist:

1. Enrico Rava, The Parco della Musica Jazz Lab – Speechless (06:37)
2. Enrico Rava, The Parco della Musica Jazz Lab – They Don’t Care About Us (07:54)
3. Enrico Rava, The Parco della Musica Jazz Lab – Thriller (06:17)
4. Enrico Rava, The Parco della Musica Jazz Lab – Privacy (05:43)
5. Enrico Rava, The Parco della Musica Jazz Lab – Smile (03:29)
6. Enrico Rava, The Parco della Musica Jazz Lab – I Just Can’t Stop Loving You / Smooth Criminal (09:13)
7. Enrico Rava, The Parco della Musica Jazz Lab – Little Susie (03:53)
8. Enrico Rava, The Parco della Musica Jazz Lab – Blood On The Dance Floor (05:05)
9. Enrico Rava, The Parco della Musica Jazz Lab – History (08:08)

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This live album breaks with Enrico Rava’s own traditions. In his ECM albums, all the way back to 1974’s The Pilgrim And The Stars, Rava has set his own compositions in the foreground. Not this time. Nor does he pay tribute to aspects of jazz history. Instead, on Rava On The Dance Floor the great Italian trumpeter enthusiastically turns his attention to the musical universe of the late Michael Jackson. And in this unexpected context, drawing also upon the energy of the Parco della Musica Jazz Lab band, he delivers impassioned and extroverted trumpet playing.Rava acknowledges that he had paid scant attention to Michael Jackson during the singer’s earthly existence, and it wasn’t until June 2009 and the days after Jackson’s death that Enrico, curiosity piqued by the intensity of the media coverage, began to listen to his music in earnest, finding himself more and more attracted by its range of possibilities. “What finally convinced me,” he says, “was the contagious riff of ‘Smooth Criminal.’

The fact is that, from a certain moment on, Michael Jackson simply invaded my life. My wife and I bought all the Jackson discs and videos we could find. And my long and dull road trips were transformed into enthusiastic listening sessions. It became clear to me that for years I had ignored one of the great protagonists of 20th century music and dance. A total artist, a perfectionist, a genius. I was especially knocked out by the film This is it, which documents the rehearsals for that extraordinary show. How amazing to see that 50-Year old Peter Pan, so fragile and vulnerable, transformed into a benevolent but absolute authority on stage, in control of every small detail, correcting a spotlight, the emphasis of a bass note, a dancer’s step, or the length of a musical pause.”