Results for "Sokratis Sinopoulos"

Sokratis Sinopoulos

Léna (Vasilis Kostas)

By Vasilis Kostas

Label: Artsyndesis
Released: 2026
Track listing: Beyond Syndesis; Reaching for Hope; Eliocharis; Before America; For Léna; Kalesma: To Naourisma tis Vasilikis; Andi And Danielle's Dream; The Sides of the Soul; To Horio

Anders Hagberg, Arek Czernysz Quartet, Coulondre/Dolmen/Privat & more

by Marek J. Śmietański
December 19, 2025

From October's new European releases, I chose 19 remarkable premieres for Episode 118th--with the majority coming from merely three regions: five each from Poland, France, and the Scandinavia. The selection brimmed with daring, unconventional instrumentation, revealing itself most vividly through intimate and startling duets and trios. A superb set... nothing more, nothing less--just pure jazz alchemy, ...

New Music From Brennan, Borgatti, Hilton, Threadgill & More

by Bob Osborne
November 13, 2025

This episode features music from Latin America, North America, Europe, and the Mediterranean region. It begins with rhythmically driven Latin jazz and piano-led ensemble work, followed by experimental compositions using layered electronics, extended techniques, and non-standard forms. Midway, the programme includes modal structures, bowed string textures, and vibraphone-led chamber jazz. The final third presents free improvisation, ...

Enjoy Jazz and More 2020

by Henning Bolte
December 8, 2020

Various venues Enjoy Jazz and More Heidelberg, Mannheim, Ludwigshafen, Schwetzingen October 14-30, 2020 Enjoy Jazz is a festival that stretches across 7 weeks from the beginning of October to halfway through November in the urban area of Mannheim, Ludwigshafen and Heidelberg in southwestern Germany. The long stretch had ...

Eight Winds

By Sokratis Sinopoulos

Label: ECM Records
Released: 2015
Track listing: Eight Winds; Yerma; 21st March; Thrace; Aegean Sea; In Circles; Lyric; Street Dance; Forever; 21st March, var.; Stillness; Eight Winds, var.

Sokratis Sinopoulos: Eight Winds

by Neri Pollastri
November 23, 2015

Ecco un lavoro davvero molto particolare, che prende ispirazione dalla musica tradizionale per realizzare impasti di impianto jazzistico, traendoli per giunta da una regione--la Grecia--la cui tradizione, splendida, è stata piuttosto sottovalutata in questo contesto. Ne è autore Sokratis Sinopoulos, poco più che quarantenne specialista della lyra, strumento tradizionale dell'area egea, che ha coltivato ...

Charles Lloyd: Wild Man Dance

by Dan Bilawsky
May 21, 2015

Wonders seem to never cease where Charles Lloyd is concerned. In a career spanning more than half a century, Lloyd's well of creativity has never run dry. He remains peerless when it comes to producing transcendent music. While plenty of musicians tend to slow down as they get older, the opposite seems to ...

Charles Lloyd at SFJAZZ

by Harry S. Pariser
May 6, 2015

Charles Lloyd SFJAZZ San Francisco, CA April 24-26, 2015 Even in the idiosyncratic world of jazz, Charles Lloyd stands apart. Born in Memphis in 1938, Lloyd is a master of the tenor saxophone and flute. His ethnic mix--Irish, Cherokee, African, and Mongolian--mirrors the vast number of musical styles he has crossed ...

Charles Lloyd 75th Birthday Concerts at the Met Museum and Kennedy Center

February 28, 2013

Tenor saxophone titan Charles Lloyd has been hailed as one of the most restlessly inventive musicians in jazz history. His current quartet - with Jason Moran, piano; Reuben Rogers, bass; and Eric Harland, drums - was honored as the 2011 “#1 Acoustic Group" by the JazzTimes critics poll. “Follow the career of Charles Lloyd," said The ...