Blood Ballad

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Blood Ballad
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Studio album by Pandelis Karayorgis
Released 2001
Recorded April 25 & 26, 2000
Studio Acoustic Recording, Brooklyn
Genre Jazz
Length55:06
Label Leo
Pandelis Karayorgis chronology
No Such Thing
(2001)		Blood Ballad
(2001)		 Disambiguation
(2002)

Blood Ballad is an album by jazz pianist Pandelis Karayorgis, which was recorded in 2000 and released on the English Leo label. It was the second album featuring his trio with bassist Nate McBride and drummer Randy Peterson. The title piece was inspired by Billy Strayhorn; "Centennial" is a tribute to Duke Ellington on hundredth anniversary of his birth. [1]

Pandelis Karayorgis is a Greek-born and Boston-based pianist, composer and educator.

Leo Records is a British record company and label which releases jazz from Russian, American, and British musicians. It concentrates on free jazz.

Billy Strayhorn American musician, composer, lyricist and arranger

William Thomas Strayhorn was an American jazz composer, pianist, lyricist, and arranger, best remembered for his long-time collaboration with bandleader and composer Duke Ellington that lasted nearly three decades. His compositions include "Take the 'A' Train", "Chelsea Bridge", "A Flower Is a Lovesome Thing", and "Lush Life".

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In his review for AllMusic, François Couture states "Tighter and more diverse than Heart and Sack , it is also paradoxically a little less exciting. Karayorgis' sense of melody and harmony truly are his own; his playing is as immediately identifiable as Mat Maneri, another Bostonian and regular acolyte." [2]

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<i>Heart and Sack</i> 1998 studio album by Pandelis Karayorgis

Heart and Sack is an album by jazz pianist Pandelis Karayorgis, which was recorded in 1998 and released on Leo Lab, a sublabel of Leo Records. It was the debut recording of his trio with bassist Nate McBride and drummer Randy Peterson.

The Penguin Guide to Jazz notes that "The opening sequence of 'In The Cracks Of Four' and 'Blood Ballad' probably represents Pandelis's best moments on record and a very good place to start exploring his music." [3]

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Track listing

All compositions by Pandelis Karayorgis except as indicated
  1. "In the Cracks of Four" – 6:05
  2. "Blood Ballad" – 6:29
  3. "Coming Out of Nothing" – 7:00
  4. "Ask" – 8:20
  5. "Stomp on One" – 4:36
  6. "Tomorrow Was" – 6:55
  7. "Centennial" – 5:44
  8. "Don't Ask" – 3:48
  9. "One Up, One Down" (John Coltrane) – 6:06

Personnel

Piano musical instrument

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Double bass Acoustic stringed instrument of the violin family

The double bass, or simply the bass, is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra.

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References

  1. ↑ Blood Ballad at Pandelis Karayorgis
  2. 1 2 Couture, François. Pandelis Karayorgis – Blood Ballad: Review at AllMusic . Retrieved August 12, 2015.
  3. 1 2 Cook, Richard; Brian Morton (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD. The Penguin Guide to Jazz (9th ed.). London: Penguin. p. 809. ISBN   0141034017.
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