Jazz Articles about Roberto Magris

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Roberto Magris Europlane: Check-In

by Jack Bowers
June 29, 2005

Here's a tight, swinging album by a group of world-class musicians who are all but unknown here in the States. Pianist Roberto Magris, from Trieste, Italy, is the leader, and his quintet, Europlane, is so named because its members hail from four European countries. The front line consists of tenor/soprano saxophonists Tony Lakatos (Hungary) and Michael Erian (Austria) backed by Magris, bassist Robert Balzar (Czech Republic) and drummer Gabriele Centis (Italy). A third Italian (I presume), conguero Fulvio Zafret, is ...

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Roberto Magris: Check-in

by Dennis Hollingsworth
May 3, 2005

Roberto Magris is well-known in his native Italy and has been leading different versions of the group Europlane for a number of years. For this set, Check-In, he chose a quintet with two saxophones. Tony Lakatos, an excellent Hungarian musician some may recognize, is half of the two-horn front line. Like many other recent recordings from Europe, this disc demonstrates that jazz is more than alive and well across the pond.These compositions include three standards and five pieces ...

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Roberto Magris Europlane: Check-in

by Jerry D'Souza
April 24, 2005

Roberto Magris leads more than one band, each of which defines a particular mood and approach. One of them is Europlane, the quintet which checks in with this recording on the Black Saint label (currently celebrating its 30th anniversary). This should bring the band wider recognition, considering the fact that the label has an international presence. Magris deserves the exposure; his music is deeply etched with grooves that sing of bop and the blues and the magic of African rhythm, ...

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Roberto Magris Europlane: Check-in

by Chris May
April 17, 2005

Some albums change the world forever and others--greater in number, but still not enough--simply make the world a more enjoyable place. Check-in is one of the latter. It offers late-period top-drawer hard bop writ large and luminous today--there are unmistakable Kind Of Blue and Somethin' Else resonances throughout the set--and although not untouched by developments in the music since '59/'60, it does not attempt significantly to restructure the groove.

What makes the album such a delight is the ...

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Roberto Magris Europlane: Check-in

by C. Michael Bailey
March 29, 2005

Roberto Magris's Check-in began its life as a self-produced recording reviewed earlier in these pages. Now with a new label sponsorship and distribution, this fine recording may find its larger audience. Magris is a pianist born in Trieste, Italy in 1959. Beginning his professional career in the late '70s, Magris went on to front several notable jazz combos, including Europlane (the jazz project from Central European Countries under the sponsorship of INCE-CEI Central European Initiative), the Roberto Magris quartet/quintet/orchestra, Dma ...

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Roberto Magris: Forging Ahead

by Jerry D'Souza
November 8, 2004

Roberto Magris was born in 1959 in Trieste, a city in Italy that sits at the top of the Adriatic Sea. Within its confines are people who had their origins in the surrounding countries among them Slovenia, Croatia, Austria, Hungary and Germany. It is a sort of melting pot, with an effect on the culture of the city including music. This would have an impact on Magris' development as a musician, one that would take him beyond the institutionalized meaning ...