Jazz Articles about Lukas Oravec

About Lukas Oravec

Album Review

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 ...

Album Review

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 ...