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Roberto Magris: Kansas City Outbound
by AAJ Italy Staff
Roberto Magris è più conosciuto nel suo ruolo di leader e compositore che in quello di pianista e non è casuale visto che da vent'anni non pubblicava un disco come principale solista. Questo lavoro colma la lacuna e ci ricorda le pregevoli doti di Magris anche in quest'ambito. Il suo piano trio s'è formato negli Stati Uniti e nasce dall'incontro nel 1986 col grande contrabbassista Art Davis, durante una serie di concerti tenuti dall'artista triestino al Catalina Jazz Club di ...
Continue ReadingRoberto Magris / Big Band Ritmo Sinfonica Citta di Verona: Restless Spirits
by Raul d'Gama Rose
Even if pianist and composer Roberto Magris could have performed Restless Spirits with a small ensemble, he probably would not have done so. Here is the conundrum: might Magris have created this music in a large ensemble because he intended it to reflect a secret narrative that ponders the journey of the soul? The trick is to follow the sequence of the repertoire. This is a musical suite, which could very well have been cleverly developed to mirror that dramatic ...
Continue ReadingRoberto Magris e Big Band Ritmo Sinfonica "Città di Verona": Restless Spirits
by AAJ Italy Staff
Come si legge nelle note di copertina «la Big Band Ritmo Sinfonica “Città di Verona"..., fondata nel 1946 per iniziativa di alcuni musicisti dell'orchestra sinfonica di Verona, si è evoluta negli anni verso una formidabile formazione jazzistica, condotta prima da Mario Pezzotta e Renzo Nardini e, dal 1995, da Marco Pasetto». L'organico dell'orchestra, che in questo caso esegue brani di Roberto Magris, è imponente: oltre quaranta elementi, di cui sei flauti, quattordici ance compreso un fagotto, quindici ottoni (fra cui ...
Continue ReadingRoberto Magris Trio: Kansas City Outbound
by Dan McClenaghan
Italian pianist Roberto Magris has, much in the mode of American piano icon Jessica Williams, melded multiple influences to shape his style. He channels McCoy Tyner, John Coltrane's pianist in his 1960's rise to jazz stardom, on Kansas City Outbound's opener/title tune. Dense chords and a powerful percussive attack are the well-executed game plan for the tune. Considering the bassist on this piano trio set, the connection's not surprising. In a small degree of Coltrane/Tyner separation, the late Art Davis, ...
Continue ReadingRoberto Magris: Kansas City Outbound and Restless Spirits
by Jerry D'Souza
Pianist Roberto Magris has scoped a wide segment of styles over his career. His main calling is in mainstream jazz, but he has sailed into several other tributaries, including progressive jazz with Alfabeats Nu Jazz and acid jazz with DMA Urban Jazz funk. Whatever the milieu, Magris plays with a focused sense for development and an assured knack for improvising.
Roberto Magris Trio Kansas City Outbound Pami 2009
Magris works in the “classic" trio ...
Continue ReadingAlfabeats Nu Jazz: Stones
by John Kelman
For those who think that authentic, urban-informed jazz is the unique purview of North American musicians, one need only look to Stones. Emerging from the ashes of the more electronica-centric Italian group DMA, the equally all-Italian Alfabeats Nu Jazz makes music that sounds like it could be coming from the streets of any large American city--or does it?
The Alfabeats member who will be best known to American audiences is Roberto Magris, whose mainstream Europlane group released the critically well-received ...
Continue ReadingRoberto Magris Europlane: Il Bello Del Jazz
by Budd Kopman
Il Bello Del Jazz is surely one of the most entrancing mainstream albums of the year. This group swings so effortlessly and with such sureness that its music transcends such labels as mainstream and becomes the simple the Ellingtonian “good." While this release sounds entirely different than Apparition, it has that same smile-inducing warmth that comes from musicians who have lived this music and are playing from within it. Herb Geller, regardless of his age (77), is ...
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