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Vasilis Xenopoulos

Saxophonist, composer and educator, Vasilis Xenopoulos is one of the most accomplished Greek jazz musicians of his generation and a genuine representative of straight ahead jazz. London became his permanent home after graduating with honors from the Berklee College of Music in Boston and gradually established himself as one of London’s up and coming jazz saxophonists. He has worked with some of the best musicians of the International Jazz Scene as a band leader, a section leader and as a guest soloist at various projects. In 2009 he formed “The Xtet" and their debut album “Loud City" containing 8 original compositions was released on 33Jazz Records in 2011

Feels Like Home

Label: Ubuntu Music
Released: 2024
Track listing: Going Home; The Coast; Lockdown London; Coming Home to You; Memories of Home; Get Off My Lawn; From Something To Somewhere; Mikey’s Samba.

Signs of Life by Zoöphyte

By Peter Jones

Label: Howlin' Werewolf
Released: 2020
Track listing: Los Retablos; Füsun; Stone Cold Killah; House on the Corner; Olive, Butterfly & Stork; (Feel Like I'm) Chained to a Rock; The Caribou; What's Your Favourite Planet?; My Dreams Are All in Black and White; Füsun (alt take)

Zoöphyte: Signs Of Life

by Ian Patterson
July 14, 2020

A zoophyte is the ancient Greek term for an invertebrate animal resembling a plant. So, an odd name for a band, perhaps. Mythical zoophytes, like the plant that grew sheep as its fruit, were commonplace in Medieval herbals--tomes describing the culinary, toxic, hallucinatory, aromatic, and magical qualities of plants. These were, in less scientific times, attempts ...

DEXTERITY

By Vasilis Xenopoulos

Label: AVJ PRODUCTIONS (www.avjproductions.com)
Released: 2019

Take Five with Vasilis Xenopoulos

by Vasilis Xenopoulos
May 27, 2019

About Vasilis Xenopoulos Saxophonist, composer and educator Vasilis Xenopoulos is one of the most accomplished Greek jazz musicians of his generation and a genuine representative of straight ahead jazz. jny: London became his permanent home after graduating with honors from the Berklee College of Music in jny: Boston and gradually established himself as one ...

Sidekicks

By Vasilis Xenopoulos

Label: Trio Records
Released: 2017

A Narrow Escape

By Vasilis Xenopoulos

Label: Paul Edis Music
Released: 2017

The Wind Machine

By Vasilis Xenopoulos

Label: 33 Jazz
Released: 2014
Track listing: Four Brothers; The Groove Merchant; Tin Tin Deo; Corner Pocket; The Fun Club; The Wind Machine; Prelude to a Kiss/Sophisticated Lady; Splanky; Playhouse.

Vasilis Xenopoulos: The Wind Machine

by Roger Farbey
May 4, 2014

It would be easy, too easy, to write-off Greek-born (now U.K. resident) Vasilis Xenopoulos as yet another mainstream jazz musician. This would be a grave mistake because, as witnessed here in this, his second album, Xenopoulos breathes brave new life into old standards. Not only that, but these numbers are executed with superb skill. The Woody ...