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Sam Reed Meets Roberto Magris: Ready for Reed

By Roberto Magris

Label: J-Mood Records
Released: 2013
Track listing: Jungle Strut; The Swagger; Love You Madly; Paris Blues Revisited; Quasimodo; I Married An Angel; Ready For Reed; Sweet Jenny Lou; Be My Love; Stopstart.

Roberto Magris: Sam Reed Meets Roberto Magris: Ready for Reed

by C. Michael Bailey
August 31, 2013

Italian pianist Roberto Magris has become the hard bop keeper-of-the- flame with recent J-Mood releases including Mating Call (2010), Morgan Rewind: A Tribute to Lee Morgan Vol. 1 (2012) and One Night in With Hope and More...Vol. 1 (2012), volume designations making clear there is more to come. On Sam Reed Meets Roberto Magris: Ready For ...

Roberto Magris’ Journey to the Heart of Hard Bop

by C. Michael Bailey
July 29, 2012

Italian pianist and composer Roberto Magris has carved his name in jazz stone over the past decade with recordings like Check-In (Black Saint, 2005), Il Bello Del Jazz (Black Saint, 2006) and Current Views (Black Saint, 2010) with his ensemble Europlane, and Kansas City Bound (Pami, 2009) and Mating Call (JMood, 2010) (which foreshadows the hard ...

Roberto Magris Quintet: Morgan Rewind: A Tribute to Lee Morgan Vol. 1

by Jerry D'Souza
September 12, 2011

It isn't always easy paying tribute to a legend, but pianist Roberto Magris does it quite successfully on this tip of the hat to Lee Morgan, one of the defining figures of hard bop. Magris succeeds because he has a trumpeter, in Brandon Lee, who is not afraid of being adventurous, and a more than adept ...

Roberto Magris Quintet: Morgan Rewind: A Tribute To Lee Morgan Vol. 1

by Edward Blanco
May 6, 2011

With this first installment of a two-CD tribute to Lee Morgan, Italian jazz pianist/composer Roberto Magris delivers Morgan Rewind: A Tribute To Lee Morgan Vol. 1. A longtime fan of the late trumpeter, since his humble beginnings in the '70s, Magris gladly accepted a challenge from Paul Collins, producer of the Kansas City jazz label JMood ...

Mating Call

By Roberto Magris

Label: J-Mood Records
Released: 2010
Track listing: Optional Man; Hill of Illusion; Lament; Theme For Ernie; Mating Call; Europlane Blues; Lonely Town.

Mating Call

Label: J-Mood Records
Released: 2010
Track listing: Optional Man; Hill of Illusions; Lament; Theme for Ernie; Mating Call; Europlane Blues; Lonely Town.

Roberto Magris Quintet: Mating Call

by Jack Bowers
November 3, 2010

Even though drummer Idris Muhammad may be the only member of the group to elicit nods of recognition here in the States, Italian pianist Roberto Magris' quintet is world-class in every respect, consistently affirming its singular prowess on Mating Call, the second release from Paul Collins' Kansas City-based J-Mood Records. Magris also headlined the label's initial ...

Roberto Magris Quintet: Mating Call

by AAJ Italy Staff
October 7, 2010

La relazione tra Roberto Magris e gli Stati Uniti (in particolare con Kansas City, di cui è cittadino onorario) si fa proficua. Dopo aver registrato nel 2007 uno splendido lavoro in trio col bassista Art Davis e in attesa che venga pubblicata una recente session dedicata alla musica di Lee Morgan (in un quintetto con Albert ...

Roberto Magris Quintet: Mating Call

by Jerry D'Souza
August 28, 2010

Pianist Roberto Magris has never shied away from exploring, whether bringing European and American jazz musicians into the ambit of his Europlane Orchestra, or merging hip-hop, new age music and new jazz with his Alfabeats Nu Jazz. For Mating Call, Magris set his sights firmly on mainstream jazz, with three of his originals and four other ...