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Roberto Magris Europlane for Jazz: Freedom Is Peace

Read "Freedom Is Peace" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
February 16, 2025

After twenty years making beautiful music elsewhere, the members of Italian-born pianist and composer Roberto Magris' stellar sextet, Europlane, have reunited to record a second album, Freedom Is Peace, a sequel to the ensemble's impressive debut, Check-In (Soul Note, 2005). As before, snugly swinging bop-centered jazz is the order of the day; and as before, Magris heads an all- star lineup of world-class musicians from half a dozen European countries. To enhance its impetus and immediacy, Freedom ...

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Roberto Magris: Freedom Is Peace

Read "Freedom Is Peace" reviewed by Edward Blanco

by Edward Blanco
January 21, 2025

In 1998 international recording artist Roberto Magris formed a quintet of talented European musicians and called them his Europlane band which performed actively throughout Europe until 2003. More than twenty years later, the pianist assembles a new Europlane group and presents their first recording with Freedom is Peace, a powerful and captivating session of jazz with a soul-searching social conscious message reflective of the turbulent times we live in today and affirming that jazz can be a political statement which ...

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Ari Erev: Close to Home

Read "Close to Home" reviewed by Edward Blanco

by Edward Blanco
September 16, 2021

Pianist and composer Ari Erev here delivers an intimate musical portrait containing a selection of light jazz music intended to convey a warm personal story. As the Israeli pianist states, the album “tells my story of family members, close friends and familiar places, to whom I relate and feel deep emotions towards." Along with eight original compositions, Erev adds reimagined songs by Paul Simon, Keith Jarrett and fellow Israeli artist Efraim Shamir. He also touches on bossa nova with the ...