Jazz Articles about Floros Floridis

About Floros Floridis

Album Review

Savina Yannatou / Barry Guy / Ramon Lopez / Floros Floridis: Kouarteto

Read "Kouarteto" reviewed by John Sharpe

by John Sharpe
March 5, 2025

Four seasoned improvisers unite to telling effect on Kouartéto. Their pedigrees go back a long way. Greek vocalist Savina Yannatou, English bassist Barry Guy and Spanish drummer Ramon Lopez have been colleagues in Guy's Blue Shroud Band for the past 14 years, though Attikos (Maya, 2010) documenting bassist and singer in tandem at Amsterdam's esteemed Bimhuis predates that. Clarinetist Floros Floridis' association with the singer stretches back further still, not surprising as he has been at the forefront of the ...

Radio & Podcasts

Floros Floridis, Tyshawn Sorey & Phil Haynes’ Daydream Trio

by Maurice Hogue
December 2, 2024

This episode is a truly mixed bag featuring drummer-led piano trios, the saxophone playing of a true jazz legend in Greece, live recordings from New York, and the usual music from faraway lands. Drummer Tyshawn Sorey has been hailed as one of the most important creators of our time, and his recent The Susceptible Now continues a string of albums of deconstructed and altered music. Fellow drummer Phil Haynes, part of the rarely-recorded and rarely-seen Daydream Trio, delves into the ...

Album Review

Penetralia: Grix

by John Sharpe
July 10, 2015

Three Greeks based in the musical melting pot of Berlin comprise the cooperative Penetralia. Best known may be reedman Floros Floridis, who has worked with both late master bassist Peter Kowald and drummer Gunter Baby" Sommer (on the bassist's Off The Road (Rogue Art, 2007) DVD). Completing the trio are Antonis Anissegos on piano and Yorgos Dimitriadis on drums. As a trio they evoke varied antecedent ranging from clarinetist Jimmy Giuffre's chamber trio to pianist Cecil Taylor's bass less threesome ...