Enrico Rava & Stefano Bollani live in Murnau 2009

1. "Dear Old Stockholm" (Trad.)
2. "Interiors" (Enrico Rava)
3. "Cheek to cheek" (Irving Berlin)
4. "Felipe" (Moacir Santos)
5. "All the things you are" (Jerome Kern/Oscar Hammerstein)
6. It ain’t necessarily so (George und Ira Gershwin)
7. Certi angoli secreti

Enrico Rava - trumpet
Stefano Bollani- piano

recorded live at Festival Grenzenlos, Kultur- und Tagungszentrum Murnau, October 24, 2009

Enrico Rava, born in Trieste in 1939, is undoubtedly the most internationally acknowledged Italian jazzman. In forty years of his career as trumpet player, and composer, he has produced more than hundred recordings, thirty of which as a leader.
At the age of six, wanting to become a singer, Stefano Bollani (born Milan 1972) would accompany himself on the family keyboard. A few years later, he recorded a cassette of himself singing and playing, which he sent to his idol Renato Carosone, along with a letter explaining his dream. Carosone replied advising him to listen to a lot of blues and jazz, and so Bollani did.
In 1996, he met Enrico Rava at the Teatro Metastasio in Prato who immediately invited him to play in Paris with him: "You´re young, you don´t have a family. Take the risk, give up pop and devote yourself full-time to the music you love." He would come to consider Rava his mentor after the trumpeter advised him to get out of pop music and make improvisation his priority. Taking Rava´s advice, Bollani backed out of Jovanotti´s tour and flung himself into jazz, language of improvisation and freedom.
But even when they first played together, the relationship was never simply one of teacher and pupil: From the beginning, says the pianist, Rava was open to his melodic propositions, and would take them and build upon them in his own solo statements. This is the model they have followed to date. Together they’ve developed a very wide-ranging musical language that is as congruent as it is quick-witted, unpredictable, and poetic. Bollani puts his phenomenal technique in the service of the music always, and Rava sings on the trumpet in an ever-clearer voice.
Together they recorded several duo albums, the news one called "The Third Man", released in 2007 on ECM.