Electric Five

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Electric Five
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Studio album by
ReleasedDecember 31, 1995
RecordedSeptember 29–30, 1994
Genre Jazz
Length42:42
Label SoulNote
Producer Giovanni Bonandrini
Enrico Rava chronology
For Bix and Pops
(1994)
Electric Five
(1995)
Italian Ballads
(1996)

Electric Five is an album by Italian jazz trumpeter and composer Enrico Rava recorded in 1994 and released on the Soul Note label. [1]

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As it was written in JazzTimes 5/96 review: "ELECTRIC FIVE is an aural approximation of a Fellini film: surrealistic, indulgent in its broad humor, and ultimately big-hearted...". [3]

Track listing

All compositions by Enrico Rava except as indicated
  1. ″Da Silva″ - 5:31
  2. "Fragile" - 3:41
  3. "The Fearless Five" - 4:26
  4. "Lavori Casalinghi" - 5:19
  5. "Milestones" (Miles Davis)- 5:05
  6. "Overboard" - 6:55
  7. "La Strada" (Nino Rota) - 1:52
  8. "Fefè" - 4:48
  9. "Satie" - 4:39
  10. "Lady Orlando" - 2:28
  11. "Boplicity" (Cleo Henry) - 3:16
  • Recorded at MU REC Studio, Milano, Italy, 1994-09-29 and 1994-09-30

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