Enrico Rava/ Stefano Bollani, The Third Man

Enrico Rava, Italy's most famous jazz musician and one of Miles Davis's heirs, plays the London jazz festival with his gifted fellow-countryman Bollani on November 21. The pieces here are mostly Rava's (a mix of standard-like forms, ambient tone-poetry and free-improv) plus a few Latin-romance vehicles including the steamily yearning love song Estate, which gets the full Milesian long-tone caress from the trumpet, and a correspondingly brooding sequence of dark trills and murmurings from the piano. Bollani can move from classical rhapsodising to clattering improv with such ingenuity that Rava's airy lines are constantly buoyed up, or prodded to an edge. Jobim's Retrato Em Branco y Preto develops in rich trumpet runs ending in starburst high sounds, Cumpari is like contemporary stride-music, Sweet Light and Felipe are jazzy swingers. But Rava's staccato In Search of Titina - built on skittery ascending figures with dramatic pauses - suggests edgier and more urgent possibilities that this largely dreamy set could perhaps have used a little more of.