New York Days features Italy's highly inventive jazz musicians Enrico Rava and protégé Stefano Bollani, together with three leading American jazzmen: master drummer Paul Motian, bassist Larry Grenadier, and, in his ECM debut, saxophonist Mark Turner. A magical European/American collaboration, recorded in the jazz capital of the world.The CD is both a transatlantic project and a kind of `homecoming'. Rava found his musical direction while living in New York in the late 60s/early 70s. Since then an increasingly `Italian' lyricism has also made itself felt in his playing. Rava's soulful trumpet is strongly contrasted with the lean, analytical playing of Mark Turner. Bollani's playful harmonic imagination shapes bridges between them. Larry Grenadier is "present and focused in "every moment" as Rava says, and Paul Motian is as idiosyncratically creative as ever. The Rava/Bollani/Motian trio album of 2004, Tati was a popular and critical success. New York Days, take the combination to the next level