Cocoon (Pandelis Karayorgis album)

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Cocoon
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Studio album by Pandelis Karayorgis
Released 2013
Recorded June 20, 2012
Studio Fraser Performance WGBH, Boston
Genre Jazz
Length60:37
Label Driff
Pandelis Karayorgis chronology
Circuitous
(2013)		Cocoon
(2013)		The Whammies Play the Music of Steve Lacy, Vol. 2
(2013)

Cocoon is an album by jazz pianist Pandelis Karayorgis, which was recorded in 2012 and released on Driff, an artist-run label co-founded by Karayorgis and Jorrit Dijkstra. It was the debut recording of his trio with bassist Jef Charland and drummer Luther Gray. [1]

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

Contents

Reception

The All About Jazz review by Mark Corroto states "Karayorgis' music is a blotter for the music of Herbie Nichols, Thelonious Monk, and Andrew Hill. Like these skilled innovators, the signature on these compositions (six out of ten here) is his explanation of swing. The pianist combines the playfulness of Alexander von Schlippenbach with the physicality of Don Pullen to create a slightly unbalanced sound." [2]

<i>All About Jazz</i> comprehensive American website for jazz enthusiasts and professionals, based in Philadelphia

All About Jazz is a website established by Michael Ricci in 1995. A volunteer staff publishes news, album reviews, articles, videos, and listings of concerts and other events having to do with jazz. Ricci maintains a related site, Jazz Near You, about local concerts and events.

Herbie Nichols American musician

Herbert Horatio Nichols was an American jazz pianist and composer who wrote the jazz standard "Lady Sings the Blues". Obscure during his lifetime, he is now highly regarded by many musicians and critics.

Thelonious Monk American jazz pianist and composer

Thelonious Sphere Monk was an American jazz pianist and composer. He had a unique improvisational style and made numerous contributions to the standard jazz repertoire, including "'Round Midnight", "Blue Monk", "Straight, No Chaser", "Ruby, My Dear", "In Walked Bud", and "Well, You Needn't". Monk is the second-most-recorded jazz composer after Duke Ellington, which is particularly remarkable as Ellington composed more than a thousand pieces, whereas Monk wrote about 70.

The Point of Departure review by Troy Collins says "Subtly recalling past antecedents in their vanguard reinterpretations of classic piano trio tenets, Karayorgis' longstanding partnership with Charland and Gray has merited widespread critical acclaim; Cocoon is a certifiable document of their enduring, congenial rapport." [3]

Track listing

All compositions by Pandelis Karayorgis except as indicated
  1. "Cocoon" – 5:37
  2. "Downed" (Gray) – 6:48
  3. "Idiosynchronicity" (Charland) – 4:35
  4. "You Took My Coffee and Left" – 5:12
  5. "Sideways Glance" – 5:46
  6. "Settling" – 9:37
  7. "Red" – 5:54
  8. "Hopscotch" (Charland) – 4:04
  9. "Jabberwocky" (Gray) – 6:46
  10. "Incandescent" – 6:18

Personnel

Piano musical instrument

The piano is an acoustic, stringed musical instrument invented in Italy by Bartolomeo Cristofori around the year 1700, in which the strings are struck by hammers. It is played using a keyboard, which is a row of keys that the performer presses down or strikes with the fingers and thumbs of both hands to cause the hammers to strike the strings.

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. ↑ Cocoon at Pandelis Karayorgis
  2. ↑ Corroto, Mark. Cocoon review at All About Jazz
  3. ↑ Collins, Troy. Cocoon review at Point of Departure
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