Jazz Articles about Pandelis Karayorgis

Pandelis Karayorgis / Nate McBride / Curt Newton: Betwixt

by Chris May
June 5, 2008

Tutored early on by Paul Bley, and with Thelonious Monk and Lennie Tristano his most pronounced formative influences, Pandelis Karayorgis isn't the most likely pianist to become a late-adopter of the Fender Rhodes. But after some twenty years recording with an acoustic instrument, on Betwixt Karayorgis exclusively plays the electric Fender Rhodes.

Or perhaps that should be “rebirths" the Rhodes. Karayorgis comprehensively wrenches the instrument from its 1970s fusion legacy and offers it up to post-modern jazz and ...

MI3 - Pandelis Karayorgis, Nate McBride, Curt Newton: Free Advice

by AAJ Italy Staff
May 6, 2008

MI3 è una formazione nata a Boston, costituita da due dei componenti del “Boston trio” di Ken Vandermark (contrabbasso e batteria) e dal pianista Karayorgis (di origini greche). Free Advice, loro secondo album, esce come il precedente per l’etichetta portoghese Clean Feed, e già dal titolo denuncia l’ambito nel quale si muove: “free” o “New Thing”. Se nel precedente We Will Make a Home for You, registrato dal vivo, Karayorgis si cimentava al Fender Rodes dando vita a sonorità funk ...

The Pandelis Karayorgis Trio: Heart And Sack

by Glenn Astarita
January 1, 1999

Boston based pianist Pandelis Karayorgis and young bassist Nate McBride are both graduates of the prestigious New England Conservatory of Music while Karayorgis also studied under master pianist-improviser Paul Bley. Perhaps Bley’s lasting influence serves as a paradigm or a foundation for this fine new recording titled “Heart and Sack”. Not without an identity of his own, Karayorgis shows characteristics that pay homage to the masters but fortifies his individual prowess with gifted chops and a strikingly personal approach.

While ...

The Pandelis Karayorgis Trio: Heart and Sack

by Robert Spencer
December 1, 1998

The liner notes to this disc quote the Greek modernist composer Iannis Xenakis; while Heart and Sack by the Pandelis Karayorgis Trio does not have Xenakis' spiky amelodicism, pianist Karayorgis is clearly aware of the territory staked out by Xenakis and his peers. These ten tracks all have a solid jazz sense of forward motion, courtesy the fine drummer Randy Peterson and the superlative bassist Nate McBride, not to mention the directed sensibilities of Karayorgis himself. However, Karayorgis, while never ...