Pandelis Karayorgis
Pandelis Karayorgis (* 1962 in Athens ) is a from Greece originating American jazz - pianist and composer .
biography
Karayorgis came to the United States in 1985 and studied at the New England Conservatory a . a. with Paul Bley , Jimmy Giuffre , George Russell , Dave Holland and Joe Maneri (composition). He then worked with the violinist and violist Mat Maneri in the early 1990s ; In the 1991 production for the Leo label , they also recorded Karayorgis' compositions Speaking and Part II of a Name as a duo . In 1996/97, Karayorgis' first album was created on Leo under his own name ( Lift & Poise ), on which Mat Maneri and his father, the saxophonist Joe Maneri and the bassist John Lockwood participated.
In 1998 he worked in a trio with Mat Maneri and the Argentine saxophonist and composer Guillermo Gregorio ( Red Cube (d) ) as well as with the bassist Nate McBride and the drummer Randy Peterson , with whom he recorded his second album Heart and Sack for Leo , with interpretation from titles like Eric Dolphy's Miss Ann , Ellington's Frustration, and Ken McIntyre's composition Lautir . This was followed in 1999 by the duo album Let It , and in 2001 by trio Blood Ballad , with Coltrane's One Up, One Down and Karayorgis' own compositions Blood Balad and In the Cracks of Four .
In 2001 he began working with Ken Vandermark , initially in a trio with Nate McBride ( No Such Thing ); In 2002 he led a quintet with Vandermark, Mat Maneri, Tony Malaby , Michael Formanek and Randy Peterson ( Disambiguation ). In 2004 Karayorgis played - in contrast to his previous work - a solo album with the standard repertoire in which he played titles such as Ugly Beauty , Criss Cross by Monk , Gazzelloni by Dolphy or Deep Bronze by Sun Ra . He is currently a member of the mi3 trio (with Curt Newton and Nate McBride ) and leads his own trio with Daniel Levin and Curt Newton.
Karayorgis' early recordings are heavily influenced by Monk and Paul Bley, according to Richard Cook and Brian Morton.
Discographic notes
- Mat Maneri / Karayorgis: In Time (Leo Lab, 1993)
- Guillermo Gregorio / Mat Maneri / Karayorgis: Red Cube (d) ( HatHut Records , 1998)
- Karayorgis / McBride: Let It (Cadence Jazz Records, 1999)
- Karayorgis / Mat Maneri / Randy Peterson: Blood Ballad (Leo, 2001)
- Pandelis Karayorgis Trio: Carameluia
- Guillermo Gregorio / Karayorgis / McBride: Chicago Approach
- Wed3: We Will Make A Home For You
- Seventeen Pieces ( Leo Records , 2004) solo
- Foreground Music (Atavistic, 2007), with Ken Vandermark
- Mi3: Free Advice (Clean Freed, 2007) with Curt Newton and Nate McBride
- Betwixt (HatOLOGY, 2008), with Curt Newton and Nate McBride.
- System of 5 (HatOLOGY, 2008), with Matt Langley , Jeff Galindo
- Cliff (Stiff, 2018), with Damon Smith , Eric Rosenthal
- Pools (2018), with Nate McBride , Luther Gray
- Jorrit Dijkstra , Jeb Bishop , Pandelis Karayorgis, Nate McBride : Cutout (2020)
- Pandelis Karayorgis, Nate McBride, Damon Smith, Luther Gray, Eric Rosenthal: Cliff Pools (Driff, 2020)
- Precipice (2020), with Damon Smith, Eric Rosenthal
literature
- Richard Cook , Brian Morton: The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings. 9th edition. Penguin, London 2008, ISBN 978-0-14-103401-0 .
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Karayorgis, pandelis |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American jazz pianist and composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1962 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Athens , Greece |