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Vasilis Xenopoulos & Paul Edis Quartet, the Abbie Finn Trio, the Neil Cowley Trio and more
by Colin Muirhead
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 ...
Continue ReadingVasilis Xenopoulos Paul Edis Quartet: Feels Like Home
by Neil Duggan
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 ...
Continue ReadingTake Five with Vasilis Xenopoulos
by AAJ Staff
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 ...
Continue ReadingVasilis Xenopoulos: The Wind Machine
by Roger Farbey
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 ...
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