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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.
LIVE IN HOLLYWOOD
Label: JMood Records
Released: 2026
Track listing: 1. REVEREND DU BOP (Hill) 8:20
2. BLUES FOR MY SLEEPING BABY (Magris) 10:13
3. DARN THAT DREAM (Van Heusen) 15:06
4. CHROMATIC ATMOSPHERE (Magris) 10:40
5. LOLITA (Harris) 5:58
6. A FLOWER IS A LOVESOME THING (Strayhorn) 3:59
7. ST. JAMES INFIRMARY (Redman) 6:09
8. AUDIO NOTEBOOK by Paul Collins 7:10
Total Time: 67:52
ROBERTO MAGRIS TRIO LIVE IN MEXICO CITY
Label: JMood Records
Released: 2026
Track listing: 1. FOR TOMORROW (Tyner) / JOYCIE GIRL (Pullen) 9:27
2. ANOTHER MORE BLUES (Magris) 6:20
3. SONG FOR AN AFRICAN CHILD (Magris) 7:50
4. IF YOU COULD SEE ME NOW (Dameron) 7:50
5. STELLA BY STARLIGHT (Young) 7:30
6. MY ONE AND ONLY LOVE (Wood) 7:52
7. IRAQI BLUES (Magris) 6:55
8. IN LOVE IN VAIN (Kern) 8:03
WIND SUMMIT
Label: JMood Records
Released: 2026
Track listing: 1. THE WAITING GAME (Tina Brooks) 5:11
2. ALONE AGAIN (J.R. Monterose) 8:35
3. SHABOZZ (Gigi Gryce) 4:42
4. A BEING SUCH AS YOU (Walter Davis Jr.) 8:34
5. APRIL MORNING (Rahsaan Roland Kirk) 8:11
6. SOCIAL CALL (Gigi Gryce) 6:26
7. THE BLUE KYU (Roberto Magris) 6:04
Total Time: 47:58
Broken Barriers
Label: JMood Records
Released: 2026
Track listing: Optional Man; Theme for Ernie; Village Blues; Lament; Broken Barriers; Inner Love.
COME LATELY - HERB GELLER/ROBERTO MAGRIS
Label: JMood Records
Released: 2026
Track listing: 1. If I Were A Bell (Frank Loesser) 6:26
2. Strayhorn Medley: Isfahan / Upper Manhattan Medical Group / Orson / Johnny Come Lately (Billy
Strayhorn) 21:53
3. After You (Cole Porter) 5:44
4. Handful Of Stars (Shapiro/Lawrence) 7:29
5. Lonely Woman (Benny Carter) 7:45
6. Key Largo (Herb Geller) 5:12
7. Pretty Women (Stephen Sondheim) 5:18
8. 9:20 Special (Earle Warren) 6:15
Total Time: 66:21
In Action
Label: JMood Records
Released: 2026
Track listing: Disc 1:
Some Other Blues (Coltrane); In Umbra (Razumović); Source Of Life (Magris/Razumović/Ergić);
Black
Nile (Shorter); Double Matrix (Magris/Ilić); Il Mare A Fiume (Magris); You Taught My Heart To
Sing
(Tyner); Hill Of Illusions (Magris); The Plum Blossom (Lateef);
Disc 2:
Spirits Of The Wild (Magris/Razumović/Ilić); Discipline 27-II (Sun Ra); Echoes From The Depths
(Magris/Razumović/Ergić); In Action (Magris); Lanquidity (Sun Ra); Left Alone (Waldron); “A”
Means
Antonia (Razumović); You’ll See (Smith); My Foolish Heart (Washington/Young); Audio Notebook
by
Paul Collins.
Roberto Magris: Broken Barriers
by Angelo Leonardi
Un'incisione live del 2008 dell'Europlane Quintet di Roberto Magris è inclusa tra i suoi cinque album inediti che la JMood Records ha pubblicato di recente. L'evento nasce per celebrare i vent'anni di sodalizio del pianista e compositore triestino con l'etichetta di Kansas City e comprende pregevoli registrazioni con Herb Geller (Come Lately), con Art ...
Roberto Magris e il Questionario di Proust
by Paolo Peviani
Pianista, triestino, classe 1959. Forse perché proveniente da una terra di confine, è sempre stato più attivo e conosciuto all'estero che in Italia. Cittadino del mondo, ha collaborato con musicisti dell'Est Europa quando la cortina di ferro era ancora saldamente in piedi, mentre dall'altra parte dell'oceano Kansas City gli ha riconosciuto la cittadinanza onoraria per meriti ...
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by Jerome Wilson
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