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Article: Live Review

Federica Michisanti Trioness al Pinocchio di Firenze

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by Neri Pollastri

Firenze Pinocchio Live Jazz 10.2.2024 Sulla scia dello strepitoso successo tributatole dalla stampa specializzata con la triplice vittoria nel Top Jazz 2023, Federica Michisanti si è presentata per la prima volta assoluta sul palco fiorentino del Pinocchio e lo ha fatto con una formazione inedita, evoluzione del suo Trioness, ma con il ...

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Article: Interview

Federica Michisanti, un preciso disegno musicale

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by Neri Pollastri

Federica Michisanti, un preciso disegno musicale Contrabbassista, bassista elettrica, compositrice e band leader romana sulla cresta dell'onda da una decina d'anni, Federica Michisanti è autrice del recente album Afternoons, registrato in quartetto con musicisti del calibro di Louis Sclavis, Vincent Courtois e Michele Rabbia, che le è giustamente valso un'impressionante cascata di premi nell'ultimo ...

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Article: In Pictures

Steve Coleman Five Elements Sala degli Arazzi-Piacenza Jazz Festival 2024

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by Danilo Codazzi

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News: Recording

JMood Records Releases 'Love Is Passing Thru' by Roberto Magris

JMood Records Releases 'Love Is Passing Thru' by Roberto Magris

JMood Records is pleased to announce the CD release of Love Is Passing Thru by Roberto Magris. “Love Is Passing Thru” is a project recorded by Roberto’s Italian quartet after a concert tour in the Far-East almost 20 years ago. “This music is still so fresh with outstanding musicianship and musical ideas recorded at the Grammy-award ...

Article: Interview

Joe Lovano: da New York a Bergamo

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by Libero Farnè

Joe Lovano è di casa in Italia. Non so quanto in questo possa influire l'origine siciliana della sua famiglia; penso che la ragione sia da ricercare piuttosto, oltre che nell'estroversa giovialità del carattere, nella sua vocazione di globetrotter che lo ha portato in ogni angolo del mondo con le più svariate formazioni, sue o di altri ...


About Roberto Magris

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Musician

Roberto Magris

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Born in Trieste, in Italy, in 1959, after a career of forty-five years with concerts all over the world, he is a renowned and appreciated musician on the international jazz scene today. He has 47 recordings to his credit, including 3 CDs for the Soulnote/Black Saint label and 31 CDs in the USA for the Kansas City's JMood label, together with musicians such as Art Davis (bassist for John Coltrane), Albert Tootie Heath, Ira Sullivan, Idris Muhammad, Herb Geller, Brian Lynch (2 Grammy Award Winner), Mark Colby, Tony Lakatos, Eric Jacobson, Sam Reed, Paul Carr, Jim Mair, Eric Hochberg, Hermon Mehari, Logan Richardson, Kendall Moore, Brandon Lee, Alfredo Chacon, Rodolfo Zuniga and others. In the USA, he has mostly frequented the jazz scenes of Kansas City, of which he is also an honorary citizen, Los Angeles, Miami and Chicago, and has directed numerous groups and played as a bandleader in famous jazz venues such as The Jazz Bakery in Los Angeles, Catalina Jazz Club in Hollywood, The Blue Room in Kansas City, WDNA Jazz Gallery in Miami, The Jazz Showcase in Chicago, The Jazz Estate in Milwaukee, The Caspe Terrace in Des Moines, The Love Jazz Club in Omaha, The Schwartz’s Jazz Point in Cincinnati. His CDs Live in Miami, Shuffling Ivories, Match Point and Duo & Trio, were voted by several American critics among the Best Jazz Albums of 2018, 2020, 2021, 2022, and his CD Suite! passed the first round of selection for the Jazz Grammy Award nomination in 2019. In Europe, he has directed the Europlane Orchestra (a central-European jazz venture sponsored by INCE-Central European Initiative), his Italian quartet, the Gruppo Jazz Marca, the Alfabeats Nu Jazz band and, in the period 2016-2020, he was active with the MUH Trio (Magris-Uhlir-Helesic Trio), with a hundred concerts and 2 CDs recorded in Prague, where the trio had its base. In 2024 he re-started after two decades his Roberto Magris Europlane group with some of the best musicians from Central Europe and recorded live the Cd Freedom is peace. In the same year he also recorded the Cd Lovely day(s), the first solo piano album in his career, the Cd Let’s change! in Chicago, and started a new collaboration with Croatian saxophonist Denis Razz, recording the album In Action. In 2025 Magris has released his first solo piano album Lovely Day(s). Numerous interviews and reviews of his CDs were published by the major jazz magazines and websites, including Down Beat, JazzTimes, Cadence, Jazziz, All About Jazz, New York City Jazz Record, Jazzwax, Riffides, Chicago Jazz Magazine, Jazz Inside, Jazzhot , Musica Jazz, Jazz Journal International, Jazzwise, Citizen Jazz, Jazzpodium, Concerto, Union Disk  Japan and many others. A profile of Magris is also included in the book The Jazz Stories Project, published in the USA by Cadence Media LLC in 2018.

Article: Live Review

Un dicembre di produzioni originali al PARC di Firenze

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by Neri Pollastri

P.A.R.C. ex Scuderie Granducali, Piazzale delle Cascine Firenze 14-16 Dicembre 2023 Gli spazi delle ex Scuderie Granducali, al centro del parco delle Cascine, stanno diventando il luogo di riferimento per l'esplorazione di territori musicali originali a Firenze. Così, come già nello stesso mese dell'anno precedente e poi nella primavera scorsa, gli spazi a disposizione ...

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Article: My Favourite Things

Luca Missiti e il Questionario di Proust

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by Paolo Peviani

Musicista, arrangiatore, direttore d'orchestra e docente di armonia e arrangiamento presso i Civici Corsi di Jazz di Milano di cui, dallo scorso anno, Luca Missiti è anche Coordinatore didattico. Ha fondato la Monday Orchestra, di cui è anche direttore. Il tratto principale della mia musica Cerco di scrivere musica che ...

Article: Book Review

Livio Minafra, Ugo Sbisà: Jazz Europeo - Non di solo passaporto

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by Giuseppe Segala

Jazz Europeo--Non di solo passaporto Livio Minafra, Ugo Sbisà 212 Pagine ISBN: # 979-1281664005 I Quaderni di Digressione 2023 D'accordo, il jazz non ha bisogno di passaporti. Il passaporto è la musica stessa. Piuttosto, ha bisogno di passepartout, di una chiave universale che possa aprire le porte massicce ...

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Article: Live Review

Ferdinando Romano 4tet al Pinocchio

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by Neri Pollastri

Ferdinando Romano 4tet Pinocchio Live Jazz Firenze 2.2.2024 Tagliato il traguardo del 2023 del Top Jazz di Musica Jazz --un po' a sorpresa, ma con indubbio merito --al secondo posto tra i musicisti italiani, al terzo tra i dischi e al quarto tra le formazioni, Ferdinando Romano ha portato il ...


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