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Jazz Musician of the Day: Roberto Magris

Jazz Musician of the Day: Roberto Magris

All About Jazz is celebrating Roberto Magris' birthday today! Born in Trieste (Italy) in 1959 and began his jazz career in the late ‘70s. He has recorded 18 albums with his own groups and has played concerts in 39 different countries in Europe, America, Asia, Africa and Australia, also performing at several top jazz festivals and ...

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Morgan Rewind: A Tribute to Lee Morgan, Vol. 1

Label: JMood Records
Released: 2011
Track listing: Croquet Ballet; Party Time; Desert Moonlight; Lee-Too; Ceora; Hocus Pocus; Eclipso; Mr. Kenyatta; Lee Morganized; Audio Liner Notes (interview with Tootie Heath).

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

Read "Morgan Rewind: A Tribute to Lee Morgan Vol. 1" reviewed by Jerry D'Souza


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 ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Roberto Magris

Jazz Musician of the Day: Roberto Magris

All About Jazz is celebrating Roberto Magris' birthday today! Born in Trieste (Italy) in 1959 and began his jazz career in the late ‘70s. In the ‘80s, he led a jazz trio named “Gruppo Jazz Marca", whose recordings were reissued in 2006, as collector’s items, by the English label Arision. During the times of the “iron ...

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

Read "Morgan Rewind: A Tribute to Lee Morgan, Vol. 1" reviewed by Jack Bowers


For one who left us far too soon (he was shot to death at age 33), Edward Lee Morgan left quite an extensive legacy as a trumpeter, composer and recording artist. In paying tribute to Morgan, pianist Roberto Magris has a splendid idea. What he does not have, of course, is Lee Morgan or any of ...

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

Read "Morgan Rewind: A Tribute To Lee Morgan Vol. 1" reviewed by Edward Blanco


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 ...

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Current Views

Label: Soul Note
Released: 2010
Track listing: The Story Teller; Dukish Interlude; In Love In Vain; Hombres; React!; Steady Mood; For Naima.

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Mating Call

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

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Roberto Magris Quintet: Mating Call

Read "Mating Call" reviewed by Jack Bowers


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 ...

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Roberto Magris Quintet: Mating Call

Read "Mating Call" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


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 ...


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