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Roberto Magris: World Gardens
For World Gardens, Magris has chosen a variety of beautiful musical flowers, starting with "Never Can Say Goodbye," a huge pop hit for the Jackson 5 in 1971. The quartet stays close to the original melody for this reverent rendition. Magris sparkles; percussionist Pablo Sanhueza bubbles and pops on this ear-grabbing opening.
The assortment of songs and styles seems, at first blush, an odd one. Masterfully sequenced from the familiar beginning, Magris and company move into a more perilous territory on Berlin-based pianist Benny Lackners "Pilgrim," before moving into the Asian portion of the garden with "Blue Bamboo," a Yunnan folk song, arranged gorgeously by Magris for an exploration of the mysteries of the East.
The album is centerpieced by a trio of Magris-penned tunes—the spritely "Another More Blues," the enlivened "Song For An African Child," and the ebullient "Blues At Lunch—followed by the aptly-named Slovenian folk Song, "Vse Najlepse/All The Most Beautiful Flowers."
After these world travels, the music settles back into America, with a pair of familiar standards. Magris settles"I'm Glad There Is You" and "Stella By Starlight," with night settling in on the garden.
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.
Personnel
Roberto Magris
pianoRoberto Magris: piano; Dominique Sanders: bass; Brian Steever: drums; Pablo Sanhueza: percussions.
Album information
Title: World Gardens | Year Released: 2018 | Record Label: JMOOD* RECORDS
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