Tokyo. “Enrico Rava and Japanese Friends” is the name of Enrico Rava’s Japanese tour starting on December 15 at the Italian Cultural Institute of Tokyo and will continue on the 16th in Fukuoka at the Shikiori Club, on the 17th at the Garaman Hall in Okinawa and 18 at Knowledge Club in Osaka. Accompanied for the first time by a whole Japanese formation composed of pianist Makiko Hirabayashi, bassist Seigo Matsunata and drummer Yoshigaki Yasuhiro, Rava will perform his own pieces. (9Colonne)