Disambiguation (Pandelis Karayorgis album)

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Disambiguation
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Studio album by Pandelis Karayorgis, Mat Maneri
Released 2002
Recorded June 2001
Studio Acoustic Recording, Brooklyn
Genre Jazz
Length48:32
Label Leo
Producer Pandelis Karayorgis, Leo Feigin
Pandelis Karayorgis chronology
Blood Ballad
(2001)		Disambiguation
(2002)		 Seventeen Pieces
(2004)
Mat Maneri chronology
Blue Decco
(2000)		Disambiguation
(2002)		Sustain
(2002)

Disambiguation is an album by a quintet co-led by jazz pianist Pandelis Karayorgis and violinist Mat Maneri, which was recorded in 2001 and released on the English Leo label. [1] Maneri had the idea to ask Karayorgis to write pieces for a quintet date with saxophonist Tony Malaby and bassist Michael Formanek already in mind. Drummer Randy Peterson was on pianist's trio and has long played with Mat in Joe Maneri's quartet. [2]

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

Mat Maneri American composer, improviser and jazz violin and viola player

Mat Maneri is an American composer, violin, and viola player. He is the son of the saxophonist Joe Maneri. and his wife Sonja Maneri.

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

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In his review for AllMusic, François Couture states "It falls to the jazzmen's credit that Disambiguation sounds so unforced and rehearsed, and flows so naturally. The pianist and violist know each other well enough to share a level of comfort that often finds improv musicians turning lazy and remaining on previously charted ground." [3]

AllMusic Online music database

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The Penguin Guide to Jazz notes that " Pandelis's Monk influence is very evident, and he swings more easily and relaxedly than on most of his previous records." [4]

<i>The Penguin Guide to Jazz</i> book

The Penguin Guide to Jazz is a reference work containing an encyclopedic directory of jazz recordings on CD which are currently available in Europe or the United States. The first nine editions were compiled by Richard Cook and Brian Morton, two well known chroniclers of jazz resident in the United Kingdom.

The JazzTimes review by Ron Wynn says "Pianist Pandelis Karayorgis has constructed five pieces on Disambiguation that are difficult to follow, but rewarding for those willing to hear them." [5]

JazzTimes is an American magazine devoted to jazz. Published 10 times a year, it was founded in Washington, D.C. in 1970 by Ira Davidson Sabin (1928–2018) as a newsletter called Radio Free Jazz. Sabine founded Radio Free Jazz to complement his Washington, D.C. record store that he founded in 1962. As a newsletter, it informed consumers of the latest jazz releases and provided jazz broadcasters with news and backstories related to playlists.

Track listing

All compositions by Pandelis Karayorgis
  1. "Case in Point" – 8:32
  2. "Three Plus Three" – 10:01
  3. "Matutinal" – 8:47
  4. "Disambiguation" – 11:50
  5. "Home" – 9:22

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.

Violin bowed string instrument, usually with four strings tuned in perfect fifths

The violin, sometimes known as a fiddle, is a wooden string instrument in the violin family. Most violins have a hollow wooden body. It is the smallest and highest-pitched instrument in the family in regular use. Smaller violin-type instruments exist, including the violino piccolo and the kit violin, but these are virtually unused. The violin typically has four strings tuned in perfect fifths, and is most commonly played by drawing a bow across its strings, though it can also be played by plucking the strings with the fingers (pizzicato) and by striking the strings with the wooden side of the bow.

Tony Malaby American musician

Tony Malaby is a jazz tenor saxophonist. Malaby moved to New York City in 1995 and has played with several notable jazz groups, including Charlie Haden’s Liberation Music Orchestra, Paul Motian's Electric Bebop Band, Mark Helias's Open Loose, Fred Hersch's Trio + 2 and Walt Whitman project, and bands led by Mario Pavone, Chris Lightcap, Bobby Previte, Tom Varner, Marty Ehrlich, Angelica Sanchez, Mark Dresser, and Kenny Wheeler. Other collaborators have included Tom Rainey, Christian Lillinger, Ben Monder, Eivind Opsvik, Nasheet Waits, Samo Salamon and Michael Formanek. His first album as a co-leader was Cosas with Joey Sellers.

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References

  1. ↑ Disambiguation at Pandelis Karayorgis
  2. ↑ Original Liner Notes by Kevin Whitehead
  3. 1 2 Couture, François. Pandelis Karayorgis – Disambiguation: Review at AllMusic . Retrieved August 13, 2015.
  4. 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.
  5. ↑ Wynn, Ron. Disambiguation review at JazzTimes
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