New decade, new band, new album. Only trombonist Gianluca Petrella remains from Rava’s previous quintet but these young guys revel in the trumpeter’s music as if flows through their blood. Rava’s return to ECM in 2003 saw his art raised to an even higher plane. In a way, his greatest skill lies in an ability to integrate but transcend seamlessly an enormous range of influences. With Tribe, however, he has achieved its apotheosis, for the compositions and performances here achieve a breadth of content and mood that touches upon the divine. I’m not going to single out particular tracks – what is important is the flow and unfolding of musical ideas. One hears echoes of both Rota and Morricone, those two Italian giants of film composing. One catches glimpses of the music of the Balkans and North Africa that has washed up on Italy’s shores over the centuries and of the Italian brass band tradition. That one hears all this filtered through a sensibility shaped by Miles and Ornette is but a further tribute to Rava. This may well be his best record yet.