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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 ...

Radio & Podcasts

George Cables, Steve Allee, Camille Thurman, Lloyd McNeil, Roberto Magris

by Cheryl K.
December 23, 2024

During this week's two-hour program of Jazz and improvised music, cuts from new releases by octogenarian pianist George Cables, saxophonist Camille Thurman with the Darrell Green Quartet, the Lloyd McNeil Quartet from 1970, the re-release of Green Cosmos's only album, pianist Roberto Magris, and holiday tunes from George Kahn and Jazz & Blues Revue and pianist Donald Vega. Playlist Bobby Timmons “God Bless the Child" from Sweet and Soulful Sounds (Riverside) 5:05 George Cables “Morning Song" from I ...

Album Review

Roberto Magris: Love Is Passing Thru

Read "Love Is Passing Thru" reviewed by Edward Blanco

by Edward Blanco
June 5, 2024

Long recognized as one of the finest jazz pianists around, Roberto Magris has an extensive discography documenting his talents as a composer and his skills as a virtuoso pianist. In 2005, Magris and his all-Italian quartet of saxophonist Ettore Martin, bassist Danilo Gallo and drummer and percussionist Enzo Carpentieri toured the Far East and upon their return the group recorded Love is Passing Thru. However, it was not released until 2024 through JMood Records. The passing of drummer Carpentieri and ...

Album Review

Roberto Magris: Love Is Passing Thru

Read "Love Is Passing Thru" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
March 28, 2024

Love Is Passing Thru, by Italian pianist Roberto Magris and his quartet, was actually recorded almost two decades ago, in January and February 2005, shortly after a concert tour in the Far East, and was to be released on the Black Saint/Soul Note label before it was sold and went under. Fast forward to 2024, and Magris, now with Kansas City's JMood label, decided that in light of the passing a year ago of drummer and percussionist Enzo Carpentieri, the ...

Album Review

Roberto Magris: Love Is Passing Thru

Read "Love Is Passing Thru" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
March 18, 2024

Italian pianist Roberto Magris started his jazz journey on his home turf, notably with a trio of albums on the Soul Note label: Check-In (2005), Il Bello del Jazz (2006) and Current Views (2009). But his profile rose substantially when he got involved with JMood Records, beginning with Kansas City Outbound (2008). He offered his masterpiece on the label in 2020 with Suite! , a sumptuous double CD showcasing an artist who adheres very much to the tradition but who ...

Radio & Podcasts

Stan Getz, Jeremy Pelt & Roberto Magris

by Joe Dimino
October 29, 2023

We start the 826th Episode of Neon Jazz with Italian pianist & composer Roberto Magris with music from his 2023 release High Quote. He has always had a distinct and deep Kansas City connection and off this latest album, it is finally seeing the light of day after over a decade of being in the can and features a bevy of great KC jazz talent. We also hear from the Italian pianist Enrico Pieranunzi with a special album dedicated to ...