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Roberto Magris: Broken Barriers

Read "Broken Barriers" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi

by Angelo Leonardi
September 21, 2026

Un'incisione live del 2008 dell'Europlane Quintet di Roberto Magris è inclusa tra i suoi cinque album inediti che la JMood Records ha pubblicato di recente. L'evento nasce per celebrare i vent'anni di sodalizio del pianista e compositore triestino con l'etichetta di Kansas City e comprende pregevoli registrazioni con Herb Geller (Come Lately), con Art Davis (Live In Hollywood), dell'ensemble Wind Summit (Roberto Magris / Wind Summit) e del suo trio più recente (Live in Mexico City). Le incisioni ...

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Roberto Di Gioia: Web Web - Kover Kover

Read "Web Web - Kover Kover" reviewed by Andy Crowther

by Andy Crowther
April 24, 2026

Web Web are a “German supergroup" releasing mostly their own material on the Munich-based Compost Records. All are heavily influenced by the spiritual sounds of the legendary Black Jazz and Strata East labels, the grooves of ethio-jazz, and the more experimental kraut-rock leanings of bands like Embryo. But their 2025 album Plexus Plexus tellingly included a cover of Moondog's “Bird's Lament." April 2026 sees the release of Kover Kover, where the band cover 14 songs for a whole album in ...

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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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Jeremy Monteiro: Sings

by Ian Patterson
December 12, 2023

Singapore's King of Swing, as pianist Jeremy Monteiro is fondly known in the Lion City-state, has been plying his professional craft since 1976. Since then, Monteiro has played thousands of gigs, many of those with the likes of James Moody, Jimmy Cobb, Michael Brecker, Benny Golson, Charlie Haden, Jay Anderson and Ernie Watts. Talk about paying your dues. When you add to that list Simon and Garfunkel and English troubadour Earl Okin, it is fair to say that this is ...

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Jim McNeely/Frankfurt Radio Big Band: Rituals

by Jack Bowers
October 23, 2022

The first thirty-three minutes or so of Rituals, the latest album by the excellent Frankfurt Radio (hr) Big Band, is an homage to Igor Stravinsky's symphonic suite The Rite of Spring, which premiered in Paris in 1913, reimagined “in the Stravinsky spirit" by the group's director, Jim McNeely, in a big-band framework and featuring the acclaimed American tenor saxophonist Chris Potter. The first three movements are designated “Adoration," the next two “Sacrifice," and McNeely has added a sixth, “Rituals Rebirth," ...

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Jim McNeely Frankfurt Radio Big Band feat. Chris Potter: Rituals

Read "Rituals" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi

by Angelo Leonardi
April 25, 2022

Commissionata dall'Alte Oper Frankfurt a Jim McNeely nell'ambito del festival dedicato a Stravinsky del 2013, quest'originale esecuzione de “Le Sacre du Printemps" è stata registrata due anni dopo in studio e viene pubblicata solo ora. Assieme all'arrangiatore di Chicago, i protagonisti sono Chris Potter al sax tenore e soprano, e la Frankfurt Radio Big Band. La presenza di una figura solista chiarisce da subito che non si tratta di una rivisitazione de “La sagra della primavera" ma ...