ROBERTO MAGRIS
Genres: Hard Bop, Post Bop, World Fusion, Funk Jazz, Classic Fusion • Italy

Born in Trieste (Italy) in 1959 Roberto Magris 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 Curtain, Magris was privileged to be one of the very few West European musicians to collaborate on a regular basis with the East European musicians on the jazz scene. He performed in the former Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, DDR/Eastern Germany, Hungary and Romania. In 1987, he formed the Roberto Magris Quartet that continues to play, record and schedules tours all around the world. This unit has recorded several CDs, among them the classic album Maliblues (Map). In 2006, Magris started his collaboration with musical icon, Art Davis (the legendary bassist for John Coltrane, Dizzy Gillespie, Louis Armstrong and Max Roach as well as other notables) read more...