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George Cotsirilos

Originally from Chicago, George Cotsirilos has been a member of the San Francisco Bay Area jazz community for many years and has performed with a wide variety of artists, from San Francisco jazz fixtures like Eddie Marshall, Mel Martin, Pharaoh Sanders and Mark Levine to internationally recognized blues singer Etta James, Bill Evans bassist Chuck Israels, and the jazz/soul vocal group, The Whispers. His latest album, In The Wee Hours, a collection of originals and standards performed on solo nylon string acoustic guitar, was released on May 22, 2026 and it has been greated with excellent notices. His 2022 quartet CD, Refuge, received wide acclaim, was named a Downbeat  Editors' Pick and Downbeat named it one of the best albums of 2022. His 2018 quartet CD, Mostly In Blue, recieved equal acclaim and Downbeat  named it one of the best albums of 2018. Cotsirilos's earlier trio CD's, On The Rebop, Past Present and Variations have also been well recieved: for example, Washington Post  jazz critic, Royal Stokes named the 2013 trio recording, Variations one of the most notable recordings of 2013.

In the Wee Hours

By George Cotsirilos

Label: OA2 Records
Released: 2026
Track listing: A Nameless Poet; Come Sunday; Gale; Haunted Heart; Do Nothing Till You Hear From Me; Providence; Like Someone in Love; In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning; The Night We Called It a Day; When Sunny Gets Blue; This is All I Ask.

Do Nothing Till You Hear From Me

June 15, 2026

Album: In the Wee Hours
By George Cotsirilos
Label: OA2 Records
Released: 2026
Duration: 03:27

Jacques Lesure, Lakecia Benjamin, Emmet Cohen, Carlos Henriquez and more

by Benjamin Boddie
June 3, 2026

Today's Music--Right Now! Fantastic music by Jacques Lesure, Lakecia Benjamin, Emmet Cohen, Malene Mortensen & Christian Sands, Vladimir Redzic, Jan Harbeck Quartet, Carlos Henriquez, Charlie Wood, JabFung, Malcolm Strachan, Andrew Moorhead, Altin Sencalar, Russ Spiegel, Javon Jackson, Eva Cortes, Virginia MacDonald, New Jazz Underground, Faye Carol, Chris Hazelton, Ben Markley Big Band, Charles Ruggiero, Billy Childs, ...

Refuge

By George Cotsirilos

Label: OA2 Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Devolution; Refuge; Planet Roxoid; Igualmente; The Three Doves; Slacker; Aftermath; A Faint Light; Smoke Signal; Let's Make A Break For It.

George Cotsirilos Quartet: Refuge

by Jack Bowers
June 18, 2022

At a troubling and turbulent time, when many jazz albums seek to convey a “message," the only statement that Chicago-bred, San Francisco-based guitarist George Cotsirilos and his able quartet wish to make on Refuge is that swing remains king in their domain, wielding its magisterial influence over ten of Cotsirilos' sunny compositions and arrangements.

George Cotsirilos: 'Refuge'

June 2, 2022

I loved George Cotsirilos's guitar the moment I heard it. His sound is shrewd and seasoned and he has a refined sense of history. There's ample swing, soul-jazz and a keen sense of fusion in his playing, and I can hear Grant Green's plucking, Pat Metheny's articulation, Joe Pass's chords and John Scofield's note-bending in his ...

Devolution

May 4, 2022

Album: Refuge
By George Cotsirilos
Label: OA2 Records
Released: 2022
Duration: 04:58

San Francisco Bay Area Guitarist/Composer George Cotsirilos Deepens His Explorations With New Quartet Date 'Refuge,' Due May 20 On Oa2 Records

April 20, 2022

George Cotsirilos pushes into new frontiers with the May 20 release of Refuge (OA2). The guitarist and composer’s follow-up to his acclaimed 2018 album Mostly in Blue again features his quartet—pianist Keith Saunders, bassist Robb Fisher, and drummer Ron Marabuto—but repositions them both in pursuit of new challenges and, if anything, even more “in blue.” Cotsirilos ...

Mostly in Blue

By George Cotsirilos

Label: OA2 Records
Released: 2018
Track listing: Mostly in Blue; Wes Side Blues; I Wish I Knew; Ms. Luna; Blue Dusk; Crazeology; Lights Out; Down, Not Out