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Five-Way Split: Modus Operandi

Read "Modus Operandi" reviewed by Neil Duggan

by Neil Duggan
March 12, 2026

Five-Way Split is a London-based quintet that builds its foundations on the music of bands such as Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, the Max Roach Quintet and the Horace Silver Quintet. This throwback to the hard-bop groups of the 1950s and '60s is infused with the band's brand of contemporary charm as they swing through nine bright tracks that include original compositions and inventive covers. One thing--among several--that sets the album apart is the quality of the ...

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Vasilis Xenopoulos & Paul Edis Quartet, the Abbie Finn Trio, the Neil Cowley Trio and more

by Colin Muirhead
April 20, 2025

Featuring new music by Knats, Georgia Mancio & Alan Broadbent, Fergus McCreadie, Andrea Vicari, plus previews of gigs by the Vasilis Xenopoulos & Paul Edis Quartet, the Abbie Finn Trio, the Neil Cowley Trio and more. Playlist Knats “Miz (feat. Anatole Muster)" from Knats (Gearbox Records) 00:00 Vasilis Xenopoulos and Paul Edis Quartet “The Coast" from Feels Like Home (Ubuntu Music) 06:33 Abbie Finn Trio “Sheila's Song" from Stotties for Three (Self-released) 13:01 Georgia Mancio & Alan Broadbent ...

Album Review

Vasilis Xenopoulos Paul Edis Quartet: Feels Like Home

Read "Feels Like Home" reviewed by Neil Duggan

by Neil Duggan
May 10, 2024

The various meanings of home are the themes behind Feels Like Home--somewhere to belong to, a place to rejoin loved ones, a birthplace. This is the second album from Vasilis Xenopoulos and Paul Edis. They began playing together 20 years ago, when they both relocated to London to study. It follows on from A Narrow Escape (Paul Edis Music, 2016). Leading Greek saxophonist Xenopoulos is a flag-waver for straight-ahead jazz and can be found as co-leader of the ...

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Take Five with Vasilis Xenopoulos

by AAJ Staff
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. 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 ...

Album Review

Vasilis Xenopoulos: The Wind Machine

Read "The Wind Machine" reviewed by Roger Farbey

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 Herman band's “Four Brothers" kicks off sharply and smartly followed by “The Groove Merchant." Already the listener can discern a class act in the ...