Results for "Roberto Magris Europlane"

Il Bello Del Jazz

Label: Soul Note
Released: 2006
Track listing: No Sadness; Stray Form; Some Other Spring; Key Largo; A New town Is A Blue Town; Here I

Roberto Magris Europlane: Il Bello Del Jazz

by Budd Kopman
December 7, 2006

Il Bello Del Jazz is surely one of the most entrancing mainstream albums of the year. This group swings so effortlessly and with such sureness that its music transcends such labels as mainstream and becomes the simple the Ellingtonian “good." While this release sounds entirely different than Apparition, it has that same smile-inducing warmth that comes ...

Roberto Magris Europlane: Il Bello Del Jazz

by Ken Kase
December 3, 2006

Italian pianist Roberto Magris has been engaging in projects that cover a wide variety of styles for over twenty years. But his best qualities as a pianist and composer have always been in the straight-ahead jazz idiom. Magris clearly has a strong command of his instrument, displaying an innate romanticism that recalls pianists of a bygone ...

Roberto Magris Europlane: Il Bello del Jazz

by Jim Santella
August 30, 2006

Pianist Roberto Magris leads a stellar mainstream quartet on this album, and guitarist Darko Jurkovic makes it a quintet on “No Sadness, “Parker's Pen, “Deception and “Il Bello del Jazz. Alto saxophonist Herb Geller provides a warm reflection that gives the ensemble a large portion of its lyrical texture. He and Magris come together with a ...

Roberto Magris Europlane: Il Bello Del Jazz

by Jack Bowers
August 23, 2006

This album isn't entirely new to me, as pianist Roberto Magris was kind enough to share an advance copy more than a year ago, before the contract with Soul Note Records had been signed. On this auspicious occasion, Magris' Europlane quartet is accompanied by one of the world's outstanding alto saxophonists, American expatriate Herb Geller, who ...

Roberto Magris Europlane: Il Bello Del Jazz

by Jerry D'Souza
August 12, 2006

The Roberto Magris Europlane has had an evolving lineup that shifts from quartet to orchestra. On Il Bello Del Jazz, Magris settles for a quintet featuring Herb Geller. The leader is confident in several settings, from acid jazz to funk, free jazz and even rap. Here, he settles into the mainstream with what he calls a ...

Check-In

Label: Black Saint
Released: 2005
Track listing: I Remember You; Blues For My Sleeping Baby; African Mood; Luci Lontane; What Blues?; Why Did I Choose You; I Concentrate On You; Che Cosa C'E'.

Roberto Magris Europlane: Check-In

by Jack Bowers
June 29, 2005

Here's a tight, swinging album by a group of world-class musicians who are all but unknown here in the States. Pianist Roberto Magris, from Trieste, Italy, is the leader, and his quintet, Europlane, is so named because its members hail from four European countries. The front line consists of tenor/soprano saxophonists Tony Lakatos (Hungary) and Michael ...

Roberto Magris Europlane: Check-in

by Jerry D'Souza
April 24, 2005

Roberto Magris leads more than one band, each of which defines a particular mood and approach. One of them is Europlane, the quintet which checks in with this recording on the Black Saint label (currently celebrating its 30th anniversary). This should bring the band wider recognition, considering the fact that the label has an international presence. ...

Roberto Magris Europlane: Check-in

by Chris May
April 17, 2005

Some albums change the world forever and others--greater in number, but still not enough--simply make the world a more enjoyable place. Check-in is one of the latter. It offers late-period top-drawer hard bop writ large and luminous today--there are unmistakable Kind Of Blue and Somethin' Else resonances throughout the set--and although not untouched by developments in ...