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Vasilis Xenopoulos

Saxophonist, composer and educator, Vasilis Xenopoulos is one of the most accomplished Greek jazz musicians of his generation and a genuine representative of straight ahead jazz. London became his permanent home after graduating with honors from the Berklee College of Music in Boston and gradually established himself as one of London’s up and coming jazz saxophonists. He has worked with some of the best musicians of the International Jazz Scene as a band leader, a section leader and as a guest soloist at various projects. In 2009 he formed “The Xtet" and their debut album “Loud City" containing 8 original compositions was released on 33Jazz Records in 2011

Modus Operandi

By Five-Way Split

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2026
Track listing: Dr. Stol; Modus Operandi; Soho Soiree; Two Little Alphas; Dreamsville; Pandora's Box; Viennese Whirlwind; Sunday In New York; X.O. Buzz.

Five-Way Split: Modus Operandi

by Neil Duggan
March 12, 2026

Five-Way Split is a London-based quintet that builds its foundations on the music of bands such as Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, the Max Roach Quintet and the Horace Silver Quintet. This throwback to the hard-bop groups of the 1950s and '60s is infused with the band's brand of contemporary charm as they swing through ...

Feels Like Home

By Vasilis Xenopoulos

Label: Ubuntu Music
Released: 2024
Track listing: Going Home; The Coast; Lockdown London; Coming Home to You; Memories of Home; Get Off My Lawn; From Something To Somewhere; Mikey’s Samba.

Neil Duggan's Best Jazz Albums Of 2024

by Neil Duggan
December 10, 2024

When writing a review, an album receives intense, repeated listening. Once the review is completed, attention swiftly shifts to the next musical work. During breaks from critical listening, these albums remained favorites, enjoyed simply for the pure pleasure they brought. Albums by Oded Tzur (reviewed here) and Lynne Arriale (reviewed here) could also be added to ...

Vasilis Xenopoulos Paul Edis Quartet: Feels Like Home

by Neil Duggan
May 10, 2024

The various meanings of home are the themes behind Feels Like Home--somewhere to belong to, a place to rejoin loved ones, a birthplace. This is the second album from Vasilis Xenopoulos and Paul Edis. They began playing together 20 years ago, when they both relocated to London to study. It follows on from A Narrow Escape ...

Signs of Life by Zoöphyte

By Peter Jones

Label: Howlin' Werewolf
Released: 2020
Track listing: Los Retablos; Füsun; Stone Cold Killah; House on the Corner; Olive, Butterfly & Stork; (Feel Like I'm) Chained to a Rock; The Caribou; What's Your Favourite Planet?; My Dreams Are All in Black and White; Füsun (alt take)

Zoöphyte: Signs Of Life

by Ian Patterson
July 14, 2020

A zoophyte is the ancient Greek term for an invertebrate animal resembling a plant. So, an odd name for a band, perhaps. Mythical zoophytes, like the plant that grew sheep as its fruit, were commonplace in Medieval herbals--tomes describing the culinary, toxic, hallucinatory, aromatic, and magical qualities of plants. These were, in less scientific times, attempts ...

DEXTERITY

By Vasilis Xenopoulos

Label: AVJ PRODUCTIONS (www.avjproductions.com)
Released: 2019

Take Five with Vasilis Xenopoulos

by AAJ Staff
May 27, 2019

About Vasilis Xenopoulos Saxophonist, composer and educator Vasilis Xenopoulos is one of the most accomplished Greek jazz musicians of his generation and a genuine representative of straight ahead jazz. London became his permanent home after graduating with honors from the Berklee College of Music in Boston and gradually established himself as one of London's ...