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Roberto Magris

International jazz pianist and composer Roberto Magris (b. 1959) from Trieste, Italy, has over 32 recordings to his credit and has toured in over 42 different countries in Europe, America, Asia, Africa and Australia, performing at top jazz clubs, theatres and festivals around the world. Since 2006, Magris has mainly focused his musical interests in the USA by becoming the leading recording artist and musical director of JMood Records, the Kansas City jazz label, releasing 18 CDs under his name (“Suite!”, “Sun Stone”, “World Gardens”, “Roberto Magris Sextet Live in Miami @ The WDNA Jazz Gallery”, which was chosen by Down Beat magazine as one of the best recordings of 2018, “Enigmatix”, “Aliens in a bebop planet” and “Morgan Rewind”, among the others)

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.

Sun Stone

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

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Sunset Breeze

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

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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 ...

Mary Halvorson, Arthur Briggs, Theo Hill and More

By JOE DIMINO

This week we open with innovative guitarist Mary Halvorson. She brings great insights on her career and this new COVID-19 jazz world. We also listen and interview New York City pianist Theo Hill, who is now in Costa Rica during the global pandemic. Finally, we hear from Roberto Magris in Italy during the quarantine.

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 ...