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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 40 recordings to his credit, including 3 CDs for the Soulnote/Black Saint label and 24 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 , 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.
Roberto Magris Sextet: Sun Stone
by Jerome Wilson
Roberto Magris, the prolific Italian pianist who spends a lot of his time in America, has recorded with several different types of groups in his career. This is his first outing with a new straight--ahead sextet that includes Chicago legend Ira Sullivan on alto and soprano saxophones and flute, and it is a strong one.
Sun Stone
Label: JMood Records
Released: 2019
Track listing: Sun Stone; Innamorati a Milano; Planet of Love; Maliblues; Beauty Is Forever; Look at the Stars; Sun Stone II.
Suite!
Label: JMood Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: Disc 1: In The Wake of Poseidon; Sunset Breeze; A Message For A world To Come; Too Yung 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 by Paul Collins.
Roberto Magris Sextet: Sun Stone
by Jack Bowers
Italian-born pianist Roberto Magris likes to change things up. He can be seen and heard leading groups from trio to octet and beyond, and meshing quite comfortably into groups of all shapes and sizes. On Sun Stone, his fifteenth recording for JMood Records, Magris fronts an admirable sextet whose front-line includes the venerable Ira Sullivan on ...
JMOOD Records Releases Roberto Magris Sextet Latest CD "SunStone"
JMOOD RECORDS IS PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE THE NEW CD RELEASE: “SUNSTONE” by THE ROBERTO MAGRIS SEXTET “Over a thousand years ago," jazz impresario Paul Collins states, “very talented sailors were able to navigate oceans and seas without the use of magnetic compasses and at the times even maps!" Since then, scientists have discovered in sunken ships ...
Coleman Hawkins, Oscar Pettiford and More
by Joe Dimino
This week we start with veteran Toronto jazz sax cat Joey Berkley and then move to legends like Sonny Rollins, Coleman Hawkins, Clifford Brown and Louis Armstrong. We also profile new work by Dave Bass, Gretje Angell, Miguel Zenón and Roberto Magris. From there, we hear some Twin Peaks music from Johnny Jewel and wrap it ...
Roberto Magris: World Gardens
by Jerome Wilson
Pianist Roberto Magris is originally from Italy but he has played all over the world, but to a great extent he has chosen Kansas City as his base. He has encountered a lot of different sounds in his travels and that is reflected in the wide variety of the music he creates on this set.
Live in Miami @ the WDNA Jazz Gallery
Label: JMood Records
Released: 2018
Track listing: African Mood; What Blues?; Song for an African Child; April Morning; Chachanada; Il Bello Del Jazz;; A Flower Is a Lovesome Thing; Standard Life; Blues for My Sleeping Baby.
World Gardens
Label: JMood Records
Released: 2018
Track listing: Never Can Say Goodbye; Pilgrim; Blue Bamboo; Another More Blues; Song For An African Child; Blues At Lunch!;
Vse Najlepse Rozice / All The Most Beautiful Flowers; High Priest; I’m Glad There Is You; Stella By Starlight; Audio Notebook.
