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Rava's spectrum is broad. Pat Metheny recently spoke of the trumpeter's "amazing conception of melody and music in general, which instantly offered everything to my ears that I loved to hear, all in one unbelievably beautiful package" (Down Beat, January 2006), and the music's non-demonstrative compendiousness is certainly part of its charm. Rava (born 1939 in Trieste) is one of the few players who has explored almost all of jazz's history. He started out playing Kid Ory-inspired trombone in a Dixieland band, then switched to trumpet after seeing Miles Davis play in Turin with Lester Young in 1956. In the early 1960s, at the urging of Gato Barbieri, he became a full time jazz musician, joining Gato's band in 1964. In Rome he met Steve Lacy and toured widely with him, recording the classic "The Forest and the Zoo" (ESP) in Buenos Aires in 1966. The association with Lacy also brought him into contact with New York's Jazz Composer's Orchestra (Rava plays on Carla Bley's Escalator Over The Hill) and with Cecil Taylor. He made his ECM debut with The Pilgrim And The Stars in 1975, featuring John Abercrombie, Palle Danielsson and Jon Christensen. Later ECM recordings included groups with Roswell Rudd (Enrico Rava Quartet, 1978) and Dino Saluzzi (Volver, 1986). He also toured and recorded with Alex Schlippenbach's Globe Unity Orchestra (Compositions, 1979). But no matter how "free" the context, Rava was always a melodic, singing trumpeter. The lyrical side of his playing, and his composing, has developed over the years, but already in the 1970s Rava was contrasting a mellow `romantic' trumpet sound with freer tendencies. This is one of the subjects of "Dr. Ra and Mr. Va", a piece first heard on The Plot, 1976, revisited now The Words and the Days.

Another of Rava's continuing interests has been the sound-world of Don Cherry and Ornette Coleman. This was touched upon on both Easy Living and on Tati (2004), Enrico's trio recording with Stefano Bollani and Paul Motian. Now the quintet plays Cherry's "Art Deco".

Repertoire, otherwise, is composed by Rava, save for "Traps" by drummer Roberto Gatto, bassist Rosario Bonaccorso's "Sogni proibiti" (forbidden dreams), and the standard "The Wind" - the Russ Freeman tune which Chet Baker used to play. Enrico's "Echoes of Duke" conjures the Ellington of the Cotton Club years, at least in its early moments, while "Serpent" is an undulating piece whose unpredictable trajectory brings late 60s Miles to mind - yet all these are unmistakably stamped with Rava's musical personality. The title track is a particularly affecting instance of his vaulting melodic flair in a free ballad context, "Secrets" a piece he has returned to over the years... In all, a rich and varied programme.

New pianist Andrea Pozza (born 1965 in Genoa) began playing jazz at the age of 13 in the clubs of Genoa. He has accompanied very many American players, amongst them Lee Konitz, Chet Baker, Sli