Results for "JMOOD* RECORDS"

A Step Into Light

Label: JMOOD* RECORDS
Released: 2020
Track listing: A Step Into Light; The Meaning of the Blues; What is this thing Called Love; Waltz for Sonny; Continued Light; Italy; Giulio; Lush Life; Our Blues; Here We Are.

Suite!

By ROBERTO MAGRIS

Label: JMOOD* RECORDS
Released: 2020
Track listing: Disc 1 — In the Wake of Poseidon; Sunset Breeze; A Message for a World to Come; Too Young to Go Steady; Suite!; Circles of Existence. Disc 2 (End of a) Summertime; Perfect Peace; (You’re My Everything) Yes I Am!; Love Creation; One with the Sun; Never Let Me Go; Chicago Nights; The Island of Nowhere; Imagine; Audio Notebook.

Roberto Magris: Suite!

By JEROME WILSON

Roberto Magris, the Italian pianist who spends a good bit of time in the United States, records prolifically. His latest release is a 2CD set that covers a lot of ground, encompassing sparkling hard bop, spiritual jazz, solo piano work and soulful excursions that feature electric keyboards. For much of the CD Magris plays ...

The MUH Trio: A Step Into Light

By JACK BOWERS

The “MUH" in the MUH Trio is an acronym depicting the surnames of its members, pianist Roberto Magris, bassist Frantisek Uhlir and drummer Jaromir Helesic. Magris is from Italy, Uhlir and Helesic from the Czech Republic. A Step Into Light isn't their first walk around the block; they've been working together on and off for years, ...

Sun Stone

Album: Sun Stone
By ROBERTO MAGRIS
Label: JMOOD* RECORDS
Released: 2019
Duration: 11:00

Sunset Breeze

Album: Suite!
By ROBERTO MAGRIS
Label: JMOOD* RECORDS
Released: 2019
Duration: 10:36

Roberto Magris: Suite!

By JACK BOWERS

When appraising a new recording by Roberto Magris, Rule No. 1 is always to expect the unexpected. On eighteen previous albums, the Italian-born pianist has produced tributes to Lee Morgan, Elmo Hope and Cannonball Adderley, welcomed guest artists Herb Geller, Sam Reed and Ira Sullivan, and led groups ranging from trio to septet, all for Kansas ...

Roberto Magris: Suite!

By EDWARD BLANCO

Veteran jazz pianist Roberto Magris expands his collaboration with the Kansas City-based JMood label, recording almost two hours of uncommon traditional jazz and offering a mixture of re-arranged standards and original compositions covering fifteen tracks, nicely presented in a double CD package. The majority of the session was recorded while in Chicago in November of 2018. ...

Roberto Magris: Suite!

By KARL ACKERMANN

Italian pianist/composer Roberto Magris could not have anticipated the urgent need for a positive message when he recorded Suite! in 2018. The newly released double album reflects Magris' belief that a better world is coming and his certainty is conveyed in a sprawling program of poetry, original compositions, and some surprising covers. He has recorded as ...

Roberto Magris: Suite!

By DAN MCCLENAGHAN

Italian pianist Roberto Magris began his jazz career in the late 1970s, releasing a handful of excellent albums on Soul Note Records. He picked up steam in his collaboration with Kansas City's JMood Records in 2008 on Kansas City Outbound. As a pianist and a bandleader, Magris seems to have soaked up numerous influences--mid-sixties Blue Note ...