Jazz Articles about Petros Klampanis

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Album Review

Oded Tzur: In The Arms Of A True Believer

Read "In The Arms Of A True Believer" reviewed by David Bruggink

by David Bruggink
October 30, 2026

Just months after Make A Sound (Sky River Music, 2026), the first full album on his new label, Sky River Music, saxophonist Oded Tzur returns with a confident, exhilarating set of compositions. In the Arms of a True Believer reunites him with past collaborators Petros Klampanis (bass), Nitai Hershkovits (piano), and Cyrano Almeida (drums), and adds two new voices: Anais Benoit on piccolo and Corentin Morvan on euphonium. The pair brings a sprightly, intricate melodicism to the music. Longtime followers will notice this evolution right ...

Album Review

Rachel Eckroth & John Hadfield, featuring Petros Klampanis: Olhos de Gato

Read "Olhos de Gato" reviewed by Katchie Cartwright

by Katchie Cartwright
December 1, 2025

Rachel Eckroth and John Hadfield were in Greece to record Speaking In Tongues (Adhyâropa Records, 2025). The freewheeling piano-drum duo found themselves with an extra day in Athens after finishing the recording, so they decided to enlist bassist Petros Klampanis for another little session, just for fun. No expectations, just a bit of free improvisation. At one point, they pulled out Carla Bley's “Olhos de Gato" (aka “Sad Song"). The piece is deep and beautiful, in the kind ...

Radio & Podcasts

Petros Klampanis, Julia Hülsmann, Nomade Orchestra, Eugenia Choe & More

by Ludovico Granvassu
March 1, 2025

From Brazil to Korea, with a few European stops, a journey around today's jazz world.Happy listening!Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 Nomade Orquestra “Revolução Dos Cocos" Terceiro Mundo (NuBlu) 0:16 Host talks 5:50 Renee Rosnes “Trilhos Urbanos" Crossing Paths (Smoke Sessions) 7:44 Host talks 12:47 Julia Hülsmann “Trick" Under the Surface (ECM) 14:18 Petros Klampanis “Stenahoria" Latent Info (Enja) 19:59 Host talks 27:00 Elisabetta Antonini, Alessandro Contini feat. Nils ...

Album Review

Oded Tzur: My Prophet

Read "My Prophet" reviewed by Neri Pollastri

by Neri Pollastri
December 23, 2024

Terzo album per ECM per il tenorsassofonista di Tel Aviv, ormai da anni residente a New York, Oded Tzúr, ancora una volta attivo con il suo quartetto, nel quale tuttavia c'è adesso un nuovo batterista --il brasiliano Cyrano Almeida. La musica proposta dall'artista conserva la cifra originale che gli conoscevamo e che egli trae dal suo studio con il flautista indiano Hariprasad Chaurasia, che gli permette da un lato di fondere culture musicali tra loro diversissime, dall'altro di produrre con ...

Album Review

Oded Tzur: My Prophet

Read "My Prophet" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic

by Mike Jurkovic
June 13, 2024

Simultaneously an open call to prayer and a frisky dance of the debutantes, “Epilogue" and “Child You" beckon and pirouette the muse, the spirit, the higher gods of our calling to come and celebrate My Prophet. Crazy good from the solemn “Epilogue" to the rattling closer, “Last Bike Ride In Paris," My Prophet is the current crown jewel in the burgeoning basket of jewels that Israeli-born but Brooklyn-wise saxophonist Oded Tzur has given the world. His fifth overall--including ...

Album Review

Oded Tzur: My Prophet

by Chris May
May 31, 2024

Much like listening to late period John Coltrane or modern-day Charles Lloyd, listening to Oded Tzur is akin to a spiritual experience. The tenor saxophonist's fifth album, My Prophet, is his most affecting yet. Simultaneously corporeal and metaphysical, soulful and cerebral. Inexplicably, despite having four breathtakingly singular and near-perfect albums out and about already, not to mention wall-to-wall media affirmation, Brooklyn-based, Tel Aviv-born Tzur is still a relatively niche name. At its most passionate, his music lacks ...

Album Review

Petros Klampanis: Tora Collective

Read "Tora Collective" reviewed by John Chacona

by John Chacona
May 15, 2023

Some ideas work better on paper than on record. Take the attempts to fuse jazz and Greek popular music. There is, to be sure, a certain logic to the notion. Both traditions share an emphasis on virtuosic improvisation and a foundation in dance rhythms. Rebetika, the mournful songs of heartache, alienation and drug use brought to Greece in the population exchanges of a century ago, is, with some reason, called “the Greek blues."