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Roberto Magris & The JM Horns: High Quote

by Jack Bowers
October 9, 2023

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 ...

Duo & Trio

By Roberto Magris

Label: JMood Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Cool World! (Magris); Bellarosa (Elmo Hope); Some Other Time (Bernstein); Melody For "C" (Sonny Clark); Papa's Got A Brand New Rag (Magris); Cherokee (Noble); Old Folks (Shuman); Samba Rasta (Andrew Hill); In The Springtime Of My Soul (Magris); A Rhyme For Angela (Kurt Weill); Blues For Herbie "G" (Magris)

Roberto Magris Duo & Trio

By Roberto Magris

Label: JMood Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Cool World!; Bellarosa; Some Other Time; Melody for "C"; Papa's Got a Brand New Rag; Cherokee; Old Folks; Samba Rasta; In the Springtime of My Soul; A Rhyme for Angela; Blues for Herbie "G".

Roberto Magris: Duo & Trio

by Jack Bowers
October 8, 2022

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 ...

Roberto Magris Septet: Morgan Rewind: A Tribute to Lee Morgan, Vol. 2

by Jack Bowers
July 29, 2014

Not only is Italian pianist / composer Roberto Magris conversant with jazz history and tradition, he honors it, as he has done in a series of albums devoted to the music of pianist Elmo Hope, alto saxophonist Julian “Cannonball" Adderley and trumpeter Lee Morgan who is saluted here in a second two-disc volume. Whereas young lion ...

Roberto Magris Septet: Morgan Rewind: A Tribute To Lee Morgan Vol. 2

by Edward Blanco
June 12, 2014

Hard-bop trumpeter Lee Morgan was the first jazz idol of Italian pianist Roberto Magris influencing his music to this day. Recording a homage to the late young icon was a natural evolution that culminated in the release of Morgan Rewind: A Tribute To Lee Morgan Vol.1 (J-Mood Records, 2011). Magris now presents an audacious follow up ...

Roberto Magris Trio: One Night In With Hope And More… Vol. 2

by Edward Blanco
June 9, 2014

Italian pianist Roberto Magris has always had an affinity for the classic jazz trio format and the bebop sound which, he documents so well on the previous One Night In With Hope and More...Vol. 1 (J-Mood Records, 2012), the first session of an originally planned two-set project. The eagerly anticipated follow up part-two, comes to light ...

Roberto Magris Trio: One Night In With Hope And More…vol. 2

by C. Michael Bailey
March 12, 2014

Italian pianist and composer Roberto Magris continues his pilgrimage to the heart of hard bop with the release of his second volume of One Night In With Hope And More.... Volume 1 was critically well considered, focusing on the music of Elmo Hope, Andrew Hill, and Barry Harris. Magris' journey began several years earlier with the ...

Roberto Magris: Cannonball Funk 'n Friends / One Night in with Hope . . . Vol. 2

by Jack Bowers
September 30, 2013

Pianist Roberto Magris, who logs so much time in studios that he should be awarded Frequent Recording points, is back with two more albums, the first by a quintet with alto Jim Mair sitting in for Julian “Cannonball" Adderley and trumpeter Hermon Mehari for Cannonball's brother, Nat, the second a trio session billed as Vol. 2 ...