06 Nov 2026, 04:10 PM

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(ECM)The Italian trumpeter’s group – featuring an old friend – rip through originals and free improvisation while balancing late-Miles funk with excellent vocals and horn balladsMiles Davis was the gamechanger behind at least three landmark transformations in jazz-making methods between the late 1940s and the 1960s – yet he was perhaps too instinctively lyrical, and too worldly, to take the freedoms he helped unleash too far from the marketplace. In 1960s Europe, a different story emerged, as African American free jazz innovations by Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane, Albert Ayler and others flowed into cultural traditions from Scandinavia to Spain, Soviet Russia and East Germany, inviting unions with contemporary classical and local folk music along the way.But Miles’s unique sound remained as a key inspiration to two gifted trumpeters in Poland’s Tomasz Stańko (1942-2018) and the Italian Enrico Rava, even as they also drew on European eclecticism. Rava continues to rip through the walls of linear post-bop mazes, and use raw sound as if it were his everyday speech, just as Miles once did – as confirmed by Corners, recorded with his young Fearless Five group plus his longtime friend Joe Lovano on saxophones. Continue reading...

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