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| Background information | |
| Born | 1962 |
| Origin | Athens, Greece |
| Genres | Jazz, post-bop, avant-garde jazz |
| Occupation(s) | Musician |
| Instrument(s) | Piano |
| Years active | 1989–present |
| Labels | Cadence, Leo, Clean Feed, hatOLOGY, OkkaDisk, Not Two, Driff |
| Website | Official Website |
Pandelis Karayorgis (born 1962) is a Greek-born and Boston-based pianist, composer and educator.
Karayorgis was born in Athens, Greece in 1962. He began classical piano lessons at the age of 9, but by the end of high school he was in love with jazz and beginning to play gigs while pursuing a degree in economics. In 1985, Karayorgis went to Boston to attend the New England Conservatory, where he earned BM and MM degrees in music while studying with Paul Bley, Jimmy Giuffre, George Russell, and Joe Maneri among others. [1]
He studied and performed extensively the music of Thelonious Monk and Lennie Tristano. In the nineties, he worked closely with violinist Mat Maneri producing several recordings mostly in duo format. During the same time, he also co-led a group with Eric Pakula featuring much of the Tristano repertoire, and collaborated with Argentine saxophonist and composer Guillermo Gregorio. [2]
He recorded for labels such as Cadence, Leo, Nuscope, OkkaDisk, Clean Feed, hatOLOGY, Not Two, and Driff, an artist-run label co-founded by Karayorgis and Jorrit Dijkstra. Some of the most extensive recording/performing collaborations have been with Nate McBride, Curt Newton, Luther Gray, Jef Charland, Randy Peterson, Ken Vandermark and Dave Rempis. His projects include the Pandelis Karayorgis Trio, the electric trio mi3, the quartet Construction Party, the quintet System of 5, and the Whammies, a group dedicated to the music of Steve Lacy. [2]
| Release year | Title | Label | Personnel/Notes |
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| 1989 | Hand Made | Lyra | |
| 1992 | The Other Name | Motive | Solo piano and duos with Mat Maneri (electric violin), Erik Kerr (drums) |
| 1994 | In Time | Leo | Duo with Mat Maneri (electric violin) |
| 1994 | Between Speech & Song | Cadence | As Pakula/Karayorgis/Rosenthal; Eric Pakula (alto sax), Pandelis Karayorgis (piano), Jonathan Robinson (bass), Eric Rosenthal (drums), guest: Mat Maneri (electric violin) |
| 1995 | Lines | Accurate | Quartet co-led by Eric Pakula (alto sax), with Nate McBride, Jonathan Robinson (bass), Eric Rosenthal, John McLellan (drums) |
| 1998 | Lift & Poise | Leo | Duo with Mat Maneri (violin), guests: Joe Maneri (clarinet), John Lockwood (bass) |
| 1998 | Heart and Sack | Leo | Trio with Nate McBride (bass), Randy Peterson (drums) |
| 2001 | Let It | Cadence | Duos and solos with Nate McBride (bass) |
| 2001 | No Such Thing | Boxholder | Collaborative trio with Ken Vandermark (clarinet, tenor sax), Nate McBride (bass) |
| 2001 | Blood Ballad | Leo | Trio with Nate McBride (bass), Randy Peterson (drums) |
| 2002 | Disambiguation | Leo | Quintet co-led by Mat Maneri (violin), with Tony Malaby (tenor sax), Michael Formanek (bass), Randy Peterson (drums) |
| 2004 | Seventeen Pieces | Leo | Solo piano |
| 2005 | We Will Make a Home for You | Clean Feed | As the mi3; trio with Nate McBride (bass), Curt Newton (drums) |
| 2007 | Free Advice | Clean Feed | As the mi3; trio with Nate McBride (bass), Curt Newton (drums) |
| 2007 | Chicago Approach | Nuscope | Collaborative trio with Guillermo Gregorio (clarinet), Nate McBride (bass) |
| 2007 | Foreground Music | Okka Disk | Duo with Ken Vandermark (tenor sax, clarinet) |
| 2008 | Betwixt | hatOLOGY | As the mi3; trio with Nate McBride (bass), Curt Newton (drums) |
| 2011 | System of 5 | hatOLOGY | Quintet with Matt Langley (tenor sax), Jeff Galindo (trombone), Jef Charland (bass), Luther Gray (drums) |
| 2012 | Instruments Of Change | Not Two | As the band Construction Party; quartet with Forbes Graham (trumpet), Dave Rempis (alto sax), Luther Gray (drums) |
| 2013 | Window And Doorway | Driff | Collaborative trio with Guillermo Gregorio (clarinet), Steve Swell (trombone) |
| 2013 | Circuitous | Driff | Quintet with Dave Rempis (tenor, alto & baritone sax), Keefe Jackson (tenor sax, bass & contrabass clarinet), Nate McBride (bass), Frank Rosaly (drums) |
| 2013 | Cocoon | Driff | Trio with Jef Charland (bass), Luther Gray (drums) |
| 2014 | Afterimage | Driff | Quintet with Dave Rempis (tenor, alto & baritone sax), Keefe Jackson (tenor sax, bass & contrabass clarinet), Nate McBride (bass), Frank Rosaly (drums) |
| 2015 | Matchbox | Driff | As the band Matchbox; quartet with Jorrit Dijkstra (alto sax), Nate McBride (bass), Curt Newton (drums) |
| 2015 | Bathysphere | Driff | As the band Bathysphere. |
With The Whammies
With Guillermo Gregorio
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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.
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.
Lift & Poise, subtitled 12 Improvised Movements, is an album by jazz pianist Pandelis Karayorgis and violinist Mat Maneri, which was recorded between 1996 and 1997 and released on Leo Lab, a sublabel of Leo Records. Karayorgis and Maneri play duo and solo free improvisations, as well as trio improvisations with Joe Maneri on clarinet and John Lockwood on bass. The leaders' two solo pieces take their names from the American painter Cy Twombly and a detail of one of his paintings is on the album's cover.
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. 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.
System of 5 is an album by jazz pianist Pandelis Karayorgis, which was recorded in 2008 and released on the Swiss hatOLOGY label. It was the debut recording of a new quintet with saxophonist Matt Langley, trombonist Jeff Galindo, bassist Jef Charland and drummer Luther Gray.
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.
Circuitous 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. He leads a new band with four Chicago-based musicians: saxophonists Dave Rempis and Keefe Jackson, bassist Nate McBride and drummer Frank Rosaly. Karayorgis explains that Tony Williams' seminal album Spring inspired the instrumentation for this project, a quintet with two tenors as the main horns.
Lines is an album by jazz pianist Pandelis Karayorgis and alto saxophonist Eric Pakula, which was recorded in 1995 and released on Accurate. They are joined by bassists Nate McBride and Jonathan Robinson and drummers John McLellan and Eric Rosenthal in various combinations, playing compositions by Lennie Tristano, Lee Konitz, Warne Marsh and Ted Brown, along with some originals.
Free Advice is an album by jazz pianist Pandelis Karayorgis, which was recorded in 2004 and released on the Portuguese Clean Feed label. It was the second recording by mi3, a trio with bassist Nate McBride and drummer Curt Newton. For the group's first album, We Will Make a Home for You, Karayorgis plays the Fender Rhodes electric piano, but for this record he switches to acoustic piano. The album includes covers of pieces by Duke Ellington, Hasaan Ibn Ali and Sun Ra.
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Between Speech & Song is an album by a jazz band co-led by alto saxophonist Eric Pakula, pianist Pandelis Karayorgis and drummer Eric Rosenthal, which was recorded in 1993 and released on Cadence Jazz.
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