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George Cotsirilos: George Cotsirilos Trio - Variations
by C. Michael Bailey
Variations, guitarist George Cotsirilos' sixth recording, is a well-behaved trio affair in keeping with his more recent recordings like Past Present (OA2 Records, 2010). Cotsirilos plays with an acoustically round electric tone that never gets in the way of his fluid lines and well- considered melodies. His seven original compositions all have standards handle to them, ...
George Cotsirilos: Past Present
by AAJ Italy Staff
George Cotsirilos è un chitarrista americano (nato a Chicago) che si è messo in luce sin dagli anni novanta in diversi contesti che lo hanno anche visto passare da Etta James a Pharoah Sanders, salto forse meno complicato di quello che sembra sulla carta. In questo album Cotsirilos esplora in trio un repertorio mainstream costituito da ...
Past Present
Label: Origin Records
Released: 2010
Track listing: Good Wood; Without a Song; The Way You Look Tonight; Franny's Jump; Past
PResent; Rosie's Tune; Cafe 4 Cats; Bittersweet; What Kind of Fool Am I;
Cual Problema?
George Cotsirilos: Past Present
by Raul d'Gama Rose
George Cotsirilos' meticulous and tasteful guitar work is marked by remarkably subtle shifts in accents, and minute changes in expression and dynamics. On Past Present, he also displays an impeccable sense of timin,g especially in revealing the hidden rhythms of complex melodies. His approach to harmony is whimsical, but patently beautiful at all times. He is ...
George Cotsirilos Trio: Past Present
by Woodrow Wilkins
This recording delivers vintage jazz guitar but nothing that sounds trite or old. The George Cotsirilos Trio delivers that with a mix of original tunes and standards on Past Present. Born in Chicago, Cotsirilos has been a fixture in the San Francisco area since the early 1990s. Trained with the violin, he switched to ...
George Cotsirilos: Past Present
by Bruce Lindsay
Guitarist George Cotsirilos has nearly thirty years experience as a musician, working with acts as diverse as Etta James and Pharoah Sanders. He was also, with bassist Robb Fisher, a founding member of the San Francisco Nighthawks. Past Present is the second album from the Cotsirilos Trio, following On The Rebop (OA2 Records, 2005), and it's ...
JazzWeek Radio Chart: April 19, 2010
TW LW 2W Artist TW LW Move Add Rpts Peak Wks 1 10 49 Catherine Russell Inside This Heart Of Mine (World Village/Harmonia Mundi) 235 118 +117 24 62 1 3 2 5 5 Mike LeDonne The Groover (Savant) 166 149 +17 4 51 2 8 3 1 2 Rufus Reid Out Front (Motema) 157 169 ...
George Cotsirilos Trio: Past Present
by C. Michael Bailey
Mainstream guitar trio jazz possesses a soundtrack quality that makes it perfect for sleek and sophisticated noir movies boasting sardonic shamuses and dangerous dames. George Cotsirilos typifies this type of jazz guitar playing. If jazz guitar had an aroma, Cotsirilos' brand would smell of Yardley Soap, single-malt scotch, and unfiltered cigarettes in close quarters: dark and ...
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