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JAZZTIMES SU RAVA

Il portale web Jazztimes apre oggi con una bella fotografia e conseguente intervista a Enrico Rava ed al suo progetto sulle musiche di Michael Jackson.

L'autore dell'articolo, Michael J. West, alla fine del pezzo traccia una breve storia dei brani di Jackson utilizzati dai jazzisti nel corso del tempo.

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"I think that Michael Jackson was a giant of 20th-century music.” The sentiment is growing lately within jazz, particularly since Jackson’s untimely death in 2009. But the King of Pop’s disciples tend to skew young—the children of the 1980s who grew up with massive hit records like Thriller and Bad. The speaker here, however, is 73-year-old Enrico Rava, the trumpeter from Trieste, Italy. He was so impressed by Jackson’s music, in fact, that he performed two concerts of it in Rome in 2011. Those shows are now Rava’s latest album for the ECM label, On the Dance Floor.

“Usually I play my own music,” he says. “But in this case I wanted to play something that I really like. So I said, ‘OK, I love this music so much I’m going to do something with it.’”

When pint-sized Michael and his brothers hit it big, Rava was 30 and working on the New York jazz scene. He was back in Italy as the singer gained worldwide superstardom in the ’80s, and Rava barely noticed. Not that he could miss Jackson entirely. “He was on every jukebox, all over the world,” he acknowledges. “But I was young and very ‘only jazz.’ I never really concentrated on it.”

http://jazztimes.com/articles/76216-enrico-rava-and-rome-s-pm-jazz-lab-honor-michael-jackson