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Dimitri Vassilakis
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Dimitri Vassilakis is a celebrated award winning saxophonist / vocalist / composer / educator. Has recorded 5 albums for the historic Candid Label in London "Labyrinth" was voted 2nd jazz album of the year at the BBC Internet poll and was album of the month March 2002 for BBC Music Magazine. New album "Across The Universe" recorded in New York,with top jazzmen from all continents, is out on Candid Records 50th anniversary edition.
Has played all around the globe, notably at Birdland NY, Yale,Natural History Museum Washington DC for the SmithsonianInstitute and Jazz appreciation month, Onassis CulturalCentre New York, Sweet Rhythm and Zinc New York, LondonJazz Festival Royal Festival Hall, South Africa Tour and majorfestivals in Europe and the Balkans, while reviewers refer tohim as the Greek god of jazz…Has played and recorded among others with: Jeff "Tain"Watts, Dave Liebman, Marc Johnson, Abdullah Ibrahim,Essiet Essiet, Jamie Cullum, Adam Nussbaum, TheodosiiSpassov, Ralph Peterson, Andy Sheppard, Milcho Leviev,Ron Affif, Juliet Kelly.
Dimitri Vassilakis At The ZInc Bar "Across The Universe" Album Launch Monday June 6th at the Zinc Bar
Monday June 6th 9-11pm The Zinc Bar 82 West 3rd Street (btw Thompson & Sullivan) Greenwich Village 212-477-ZINC (9462) Also Appearing Thursday June 2nd 7-9pm Onassis Cultural Centre Atrium 645 5th Ave New York, 10019 (212) 486-4448 Dimitri ...
Parallel Lines
Label: Candid Records
Released: 2006
Track listing: Parallel Lines; Little One; Ocean; Swinging Second; Soul Eyes; James; Ocean Groove; Little One Groove; Parallel Lines Groove; The Drum Think.
Dimitri Vassilakis: Parallel Lines
by Mark F. Turner
Parallel Lines--an album that's filled with exquisite musicianship, fire, and hard-swinging grooves--could justifiably put Greek saxophonist Dimitrios Vassilakis on the who's who list of world-class reed players. Born in Athens, Greece and living in London, he is also an educator pursing a PhD while teaching and lecturing in the Music Department at Makedonia University in Thessalonica. ...
Dimitri Vassilakis: Parallel Lines
by Chris May
Greek saxophonist Dimitri Vassilakis' third album for Candid is a one-course, big plate feast of rugged, gruff-toned tenor saxophone and high-torque bass and drums. It swings hard from start to finish, with only the halfway point “Soul Eyes" providing a pause, and does both Vassilakis and his primary influence, Sonny Rollins, proud. It was released in ...
