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Roberto Magris Sextet: Live in Miami @ the WDNA Jazz Gallery
by Jerome Wilson
Roberto Magris is an Italian pianist who has an eclectic range of interests but is heavily in thrall to the masters of American bebop. On this particular live recording he leads a sextet that gives that language a pronounced Latin twist leading to a set of fiery performances. Magris uses two horn players, trumpeter Brian Lynch and tenor saxophonist Jonathan Gomez, who are explosive throughout, especially on the tunes that have an underlying Latin flavor such as “African ...
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by Jack Bowers
Since recording his first album as a leader in 1982, Italian-born pianist Roberto Magris has added thirty more to his impressive resume, the most recent of which is this high-powered sextet date, Live in Miami @ the WDNA Jazz Gallery. The session is somewhat of a departure in that most of Magris' earlier albums have been set down in a studio, either in the U.S. or abroad. And while he has recorded in more than forty countries, this was Magris' ...
Continue ReadingRoberto Magris: Roberto Magris Sextet Live In Miami @ The WDNA Jazz Gallery
by Karl Ackermann
Italian pianist and composer Roberto Magris is restless in his stylistic approach. With more than two-dozen recordings as a leader/co-leader he has covered numerous sub-genres in a variety of group formats. Magris' career is steeped in bebop but with Enigmatix (JMood Records, 2015), with his American trio, he takes a modern European jazz approach with an underlying global flavor. As co-leader of the MUH Trio on Prague After Dark (JMood, 2017), Magris and his Czech Republic partners opted for a ...
Continue ReadingIl meglio del 2016 secondo Maurizio Zerbo
by Maurizio Zerbo
il 2016 non è stato particolarmente felice per chi ama il jazz, non mi è stato facile stilare questa lista di 12 CD da consigliare. Particolarmente degni di nota il nuovo album di Dino e Franco Piana e soprattutto l'omaggio di Brian Lynch allo sfortunato trombettista Woody Shaw. Da amare e consigliare anche le ristampe Blue Note di Herbie Hancock e Wayne Shorter. AA.VV. Jazz from America on Disques Vogue (Sony) Chet Baker Italian ...
Continue ReadingBrian Lynch: Madera Latino - A Latin Jazz Perspective on the Music of Woody Shaw
by Maurizio Zerbo
I ritmi asimettrici appartenenti alla tradizione afrocubana sostanziano questo straordinario doppio CD di Brian Lynch, che con Woody Shaw condivide il triste destino di essere musicista grandissimo, ma poco esposto alla luce dei grandi palcoscenici. Con il trombettista scomparso, Lynch ha anche in comune l'amore per una dimensione espressiva a tutto tondo, capace di incorporare sia una dimensione lirica e notturna, sia una cifra più energica. Emblematica è in tal senso l'opera in esame, che incorpora l'andamento ...
Continue ReadingBrian Lynch, Emmet Cohn: Questioned Answer
by Maurizio Zerbo
Per l'ennesima volta Brian Lynch si conferma come uno dei migliori trombettisti jazz in circolazione. Questo CD mette in bella mostra tutte le sue potenzialità artistiche, facendone cogliere tutta quella poetica espressività che solo i grandi musicisti possiedono. Alla testa di un superbo quartetto, Lynch sfodera doti artistiche che non hanno nulla da invidiare a quelle di nomi più altisonanti, in particolare raffinato gusto armonico come compositore e improvvisatore e fraseggio estremamente elegante. Senza voler essere a ...
Continue ReadingBrian Lynch and Emmet Cohen: Questioned Answer
by Dan Bilawsky
Four highly regarded musicians from three different age groups come together for a two-leader session resulting in one terrific album. That's Questioned Answer by the numbers, but there's a lot more to the story than basic numerics. The partnership between veteran trumpeter Brian Lynch and rising star pianist Emmet Cohen was born out of serendipity and mutual appreciation. Lynch first heard Cohen when they were both working the 2011 Jazz Cruise--the former as a featured soloist and ...
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