Enrico Rava - E penso a te ( L. Battisti )

Italian jazzista Enrico Rava’s love for Miles Davis’ music drove him to trumpet and flugelhorn, and he got his official start in 1964 scoring soundtracks with Argentine saxophonist Gato Barbieri before releasing his own album two years later. Rava hasn’t paused to take a breath since, and was the lucky 13th (and first Italian) to bag the prestigious JAZZPAR Prize, which is grudgingly doled out to jazz laureates each year. The mostly-Danish JAZZPAR 2002