Results for "Tania Giannouli"

When Then

March 20, 2021

Album: In Fading Light
By Tania Giannouli
Label: Rattle Records
Released: 2020
Duration: 04:21

A Mixed Bag of New Releases

by Bob Osborne
March 18, 2021

A mixed bag of great new sounds. After last year's successful big band outing, Blue Soul, guitarist Dave Stryker is back with his hard-driving, deep grooving B3 organ group on his new recording—Baker's Circle. The Tania Giannouli Trio's unique sounds have been described as Manfred Eicher's dream of a Mediterranean holiday. Tom Swafford and Zachary Swanson ...

Soojin Suh, Damon Locks, Gretchen Parlato, Daniele Sepe & Other New Releases

by Ludovico Granvassu
March 12, 2021

This week we feature plenty of jazz for social justice, exciting piano players and young ensembles, unearthed live gems that are coming out during these COVID times both to remind us of the power of live music and to remedy the lack of new live recordings, and the album that confirms Gretchen Parlato's role in the ...

In Fading Light

By Tania Giannouli

Label: Rattle Records
Released: 2020

Tania Giannouli

Greek pianist, composer, improviser and bandleader. She studied classical music (Piano Soloist and Composition diplomas) and Agriculture (MS on Food Technology, AUA). She explores jazz as the most creative music form and regularly employs improvisation in her practice. She makes jazz of the kind where improvisation is just the starting point and somewhere out there - or something deep inside - is the aim. Ιnspired by many different traditions and influences, her music and interdisciplinary projects span an impressive range of styles - a creative and borderless amalgamation of the global today’s reality.


Enjoy Jazz 2019

by Henning Bolte
December 2, 2019

Alte Feuerwache and other venues Enjoy Jazz And More Mannheim, Heidelberg, Ludwigshafen, Germany October 27--November 1, 15-16, 2019 Enjoy Jazz And More this year lead me through two sections of its seven-week concert-series in October/November, with a great diversity of concerts ranging from seasoned German clarinet master Rolf Kühn to advanced ...

Rewa

By Tania Giannouli

Label: Rattle Records
Released: 2018
Track listing: A Forgotten Land: First Light, A Forgotten Land: The Uprooted Tree, Triptychon, Dark Star: EnTrance, Dark Star: Fading Light, Undivided, Yfasma, Prisma, Spell, Timeless, Te Tangi A Mutu

Kip Hanrahan, Ingrid Jensen and other great new releases

by Ludovico Granvassu
September 25, 2018

The bonanza of new releases goes on. So let's dive right in and find out more about the much-awaited return of Kip Hanrahan; music inspired by fictional or real whales (courtesy of David Crowell & Simon Jermyn and Garth Stevenson); a heart-felt Kenny Wheeler Tribute by Ingrid Jensen and Steve Treseler, the second installment of Nicole ...

Transcendence

By Tania Giannouli

Label: Rattle Records
Released: 2015
Track listing: The Weeping Willow; The Sea; Sun Dance; The Time Will Come; Faster Than Wear; From Foreign Lands; Obsession; Mad World; Untold.

Tania Giannouli Ensemble: Transcendence

by Eyal Hareuveni
September 20, 2015

Athens-based composer-pianist Tania Giannouli's main area of interest is mixed-media--combining music with poetic texts, visuals, theater plays or art installations. Similarly, Giannouli compositions for her sophomore album Transcendence (after Forest Stories, a duet with Portuguese reed player Paulo Chagas, Rattle Records, 2011) blends elements from her classically-trained background, contemporary music, and European chamber jazz--inspired by the ...