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Roberto Magris: Mating Call
by C. Michael Bailey
For the contemporary jazz composer, inclusion of standards on a recording can sweeten the offering for those more traditional tastes. If the standard is treated with invention and grace, it can also inform those tastes, encouraging further listening. Italian pianist/composer Roberto Magris achieves both with Tadd Dameron's “Mating Call." Dameron's performance of his composition appeared on ...
Jazz Musician of the Day: Roberto Magris
All About Jazz is celebrating Roberto Magris' birthday today! JAZZ MUSICIAN OF THE DAY Roberto MagrisBorn 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 ...
Roberto Magris Quintet: Mating Call
by Edward Blanco
In 2008, Italian jazz pianist Roberto Magris came to Kansas City to record Kansas City Outbound (PCAMI 2008) in a trio setting with the late bassist, Dr. Art Davis. Mating Call builds on that success; a straight-ahead project reconnecting with the area on the upstart Kansas City-based J-Mood Records, another evolution from Paul Collins of PCAMI ...
Roberto Magris and The Europlane Orchestra: Current Views
by Jack Bowers
Although barely known here in the States, Italian composer/arranger/pianist Roberto Magris has been making a name for himself in Europe with a number of rewarding enterprises, among which is his Europlane Orchestra, formed in 1998 to embrace musicians from throughout central Europe. On Current Views, Magris's seventh recording for Soul Note Records, the sidemen hail from ...
Roberto Magris and The Europlane Orchestra: Current Views
by Raul d'Gama Rose
Redefining his relationship with contemporary music. Roberto Magris' Current Views finds the artist in a renewed setting with his Europlane Orchestra, but this time the ensemble is slightly smaller--featuring at any given time, anything from a septet to an octet. The album title suggests new perspectives on Magris' philosophy with regard to the use of sound ...
Roberto Magris & The Europlane Orchestra: Current Views
by Edward Blanco
Italian pianist Roberto Magris--originally from Trieste--has been a busy artist of late, having both recorded and produced seven albums in the past five years, including Current Views , a selection of live recordings made in Italy from 2001 to 2003. This album finds Magris with The Europlane Orchestra, a group he founded in 1998 as a ...
Roberto Magris: Kansas City Outbound
by AAJ Italy Staff
Roberto Magris è più conosciuto nel suo ruolo di leader e compositore che in quello di pianista e non è casuale visto che da vent'anni non pubblicava un disco come principale solista. Questo lavoro colma la lacuna e ci ricorda le pregevoli doti di Magris anche in quest'ambito. Il suo piano trio s'è formato negli Stati ...
Restless Spirits
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2009
Track listing: African Mood; Blues for My Sleeping Baby; Peaceful Heart; Ambiguous; Restless Spirits; Short & Shorter; Standard Life; Mali Blues; Ambiguous (alternate take).
Roberto Magris / Big Band Ritmo Sinfonica Citta di Verona: Restless Spirits
by Raul d'Gama Rose
Even if pianist and composer Roberto Magris could have performed Restless Spirits with a small ensemble, he probably would not have done so. Here is the conundrum: might Magris have created this music in a large ensemble because he intended it to reflect a secret narrative that ponders the journey of the soul? The trick is ...
Roberto Magris e Big Band Ritmo Sinfonica "Città di Verona": Restless Spirits
by AAJ Italy Staff
Come si legge nelle note di copertina «la Big Band Ritmo Sinfonica “Città di Verona"..., fondata nel 1946 per iniziativa di alcuni musicisti dell'orchestra sinfonica di Verona, si è evoluta negli anni verso una formidabile formazione jazzistica, condotta prima da Mario Pezzotta e Renzo Nardini e, dal 1995, da Marco Pasetto». L'organico dell'orchestra, che in questo ...
