World Gardens is an album by jazz pianist Roberto Magris released on the JMood label in 2018, featuring performances by Magris with his trio from Kansas City.[1][2][3][4][5][6]

World Gardens
Studio album by
Released2018
RecordedSeptember 29, 2015, and November 1, 2016
StudioChapman Recording Studio, Lenexa, Kansas
GenreJazz
Length77:01
LabelJMood
JM-16
ProducerPaul Collins
Roberto Magris chronology
Live in Miami @ The WDNA Jazz Gallery
(2017)
World Gardens
(2018)
Sun Stone
(2019)

Reception edit

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
All About Jazz     [7]
All About Jazz     [8]
Concerto     [9]
Jazz ‘n More     [10]
JazzWax[11]
JazzdaGama[12]
Chicago Jazz Magazine[13]
IAJRC Journal[14]
Salt Peanuts[15]
Jazzrytmit[16]

The All About Jazz review by Dan McClenaghan awarded the album 4 stars and called its content "a variety of beautiful musical flowers",[7] while the more subdued All About Jazz review by Jerome Wilson awarded the album 3 ½ stars and noted it as "a fine representation of the scope and joy of (Magris's) piano abilities."[8]

Track listing edit

  1. Never Can Say Goodbye (Clifton Davis) - 6:20
  2. Pilgrim (Lackner/Nievergelt/Perkins) - 7:50
  3. Blue Bamboo (Yunnan folk song) - 9:12
  4. Another More Blues (Roberto Magris) - 5:13
  5. Song for an African Child (Roberto Magris) - 7:56
  6. Blues at Lunch! (Roberto Magris) - 7:49
  7. Vse Najlepse Rozice / All the Most Beautiful Flowers (Slovenia folk song) - 4:02
  8. High Priest (Andrew Cyrille) - 6:23
  9. I’m Glad There is You (Jimmy Dorsey/Paul Madeira) - 9:19
  10. Stella by Starlight (Victor Young) - 9:32
  11. Audio Notebook - 2:59

Personnel edit

Musicians edit

Production edit

References edit

  1. ^ "Roberto Magris: World Gardens". All Music.
  2. ^ "Roberto Magris: World Gardens". Roots Music Report.
  3. ^ "Roberto Magris: World Gardens". Jazz Week.
  4. ^ "Roberto Magris: World Gardens". JMood Records.
  5. ^ Mick Carlon. "Roberto Magris: Eyes to the Swinging Future". Jazz Times.
  6. ^ "Roberto Magris: World Gardens". Jazz Music Archives.
  7. ^ a b Dan McClenaghan (December 14, 2018). "Roberto Magris: World Gardens". All About Jazz.
  8. ^ a b Jerome Wilson (March 14, 2019). "Roberto Magris: World Gardens". All About Jazz.
  9. ^ Wolfgang Weitlaner (February 2019). "Roberto Magris: World Gardens". Concerto (in German). No. 1. p. 54.
  10. ^ Luca D’Alessandro (March 2019). "Roberto Magris: World Gardens". Jazz ‘n More (in German). No. 2.
  11. ^ Marc Myers (December 11, 2018). "Roberto Magris: World Gardens". JazzWax.
  12. ^ Raul D’Gama Rose (March 1, 2019). "Roberto Magris: World Gardens". JazzdaGama.
  13. ^ Randy Freedman (March 4, 2019). "Roberto Magris: World Gardens". Chicago Jazz Magazine.
  14. ^ Dick Raichelson (2019). "Roberto Magris: World Gardens". IAJRC Journal. Vol. 50, no. 4.
  15. ^ Jan Granlie (April 1, 2019). "Roberto Magris Sextet: Sun Stone". Salt Peanuts (in Norwegian).
  16. ^ Jouko Kirstila (November 19, 2018). "Roberto Magris Sextet: Sun Stone". Jazzrytmit (in Finnish).