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Roberto Magris: Love Is Passing Thru
by Dan McClenaghan
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 ...
read moreStan Getz, Jeremy Pelt & Roberto Magris
by Joe Dimino
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 ...
read moreRoberto Magris & The JM Horns: High Quote
by Jack Bowers
Italian-born pianist/composer Roberto Magris, a paradigm of kinetic energy, records so many albums they can't seem to release 'em fast enough. Although High Quote, on which Magris leads the JM Horns (for JMood Records), was recorded more than a decade ago--in November 2012--its release date was for purposes unknown delayed until 2023. Whatever the reasons, it would be hard to believe they had anything to do with the quality of the music, which is by and large ...
read moreRoberto Magris: Duo & Trio
by Jack Bowers
Italian-born pianist Roberto Magris is a musician to whom the phrase he could play the phone book and make it sound interesting" definitely applies--as it does to the late great Chicago-based saxophone maestro Mark Colby who met Magris in 2016, formed an instant bond and recorded one-half of this superlative album three years later, one year before Colby's untimely death from cancer. Magris and Colby recorded seven tracks in a Chicago studio and planned to record more--enough ...
read moreRoberto Magris: MatchPoint
by Angelo Leonardi
Registrato prima della pandemia e pubblicato lo scorso dicembre, il nuovo album del pianista triestino nasce in uno dei suoi soggiorni statunitensi. Com'è noto Roberto Magris pubblica dal 2007 con l'etichetta di Kansas City JMood Records e, come già successo col disco Live in Miami comprendente Brian Lynch, uno dei suoi approdi" è la metropoli della Florida con la sua nutrita comunità caraibica. Qui lo troviamo a capo di un quartetto comprendente il vibrafonista e percussionista cubano Alfredo ...
read moreRoberto Magris: "Il jazz è un veicolo per contenuti elevati"
by Angelo Leonardi
Nato a Trieste nel 1959, Roberto Magris è dai primi anni ottanta uno dei jazzmen italiani più attivi all'estero, tra i pochissimi a collaborare con i musicisti dell'Est Europa quando esisteva ancora la cosiddetta cortina di ferro." Dei suoi organici ricordiamo il MUH trio, il Gruppo Jazz Marca, l'Europlane Orchestra, il DMA Urban Jazz Funk e l'Alfabeats Nu Jazz con cui ha esplorato i connubi tra jazz e musiche popolari. Dopo i dischi Soul Note con Herb Geller, Tony Lakatos ...
read moreRoberto Magris: Shuffling Ivories
by Edward Blanco
Pianist Roberto Magris follows up his critically-acclaimed album Suite! (JMood Records, 2018) with a duet recording with Chicago-based bassist Eric Hochberg, whom he met while recoding Suite! . Returning to the windy city in November 2019 to promote the release of Suite! , Magris and Hochberg decided to make an album of their own while enduring one of the heaviest winter storms in the history of the city. Over his thirty-plus albums, Magris has often drawn inspiration from ...
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