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Harry Pepl Archive: Tracce di Jazz (Blog): „L’AVVOCATO DEL DIAVOLO…..“ (22 December 2019). https://www.harrypepl.com/en/archive/press/#p482 (accessed 20 October 2026).
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- Press
- Title
- „L’AVVOCATO DEL DIAVOLO…..“
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- milton56
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- 22 December 2019
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- Tracce di Jazz
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- IT
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- Tracce di Jazz (Blog) · milton56 · Report
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- https://www.harrypepl.com/en/archive/press/#p482
Reply on the same Italian jazz blog to the review of “Volver” published on Wednesday, 18 December 2019. Taking the part of the “devil’s advocate”, as the title has it, the author milton56 sets against his colleague’s enthusiasm the story of how the album came about, as he had heard it about a month earlier from the Italian trumpeter Enrico Rava himself. He explicitly retells it from memory: a second-hand recollection, not a studio log. According to this account, the 1986 session was slow to get going because the Argentine bandoneon player Dino Saluzzi and the American drummer Bruce Ditmas had very different ideas about accompaniment and volume, and Rava mediated. In a deadlocked silence Harry Pepl is said to have struck a chord at random, just to break the silence. The producer Manfred Eicher, founder of the renowned European jazz label ECM, came into the studio full of enthusiasm and …
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