System of 5

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System of 5
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Studio album by Pandelis Karayorgis
Released 2011
Recorded June 10, 2008
Studio Firehouse 12, New Haven
Genre Jazz
Length53:16
Label hatOLOGY
Producer Pandelis Karayorgis
Pandelis Karayorgis chronology
Betwixt
(2008)		System of 5
(2011)		Instruments Of Change
(2012)

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. [1]

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

Hathut Records is a Swiss record company and label founded by Werner Xavier Uehlinger in 1974 that specializes in jazz and classical music. The name of the label comes from the artwork of Klaus Baumgartner. Huthut encompasses the labels hat ART, hatOLOGY, and hat NOIR.

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Reception

The All About Jazz review by Glenn Astarita states "The ensemble skirts the free side of matters, but the pianist's compositions are designed with structure. This is not another formulaic post-bop extravaganza, however; Karayorgis and the soloists weave between geometric-like architectures, amid a distinct sense of expressionism." [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.

In another review for All About Jazz Troy Collins says "Expertly negotiating the tenuous divide between inside and outside traditions, System Of 5 is one of Karayorgis' most compelling releases—a stirring session that subtly expands upon the historical jazz continuum, inspired by the lessons of the past." [3]

Track listing

All compositions by Pandelis Karayorgis
  1. "Transit" – 8:00
  2. "Two-ophony" – 7:45
  3. "Elastic" – 9:35
  4. "Seventh Wonder" – 6:32
  5. "Curt's Scape" – 4:13
  6. "Stray Line" – 3:38
  7. "Due East" – 7:31
  8. "Tones Not Notes" – 5:58

Personnel

Trombone type of brass instrument

The trombone is a musical instrument in the brass family. As on all brass instruments, sound is produced when the player's vibrating lips (embouchure) cause the air column inside the instrument to vibrate. Nearly all trombones have a telescoping slide mechanism that varies the length of the instrument to change the pitch. Many modern trombone models also use a valve attachment to lower the pitch of the instrument. Variants such as the valve trombone and superbone have three valves similar to those on the trumpet.

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. ↑ System of 5 at Pandelis Karayorgis
  2. ↑ Astarita, Glenn. System of 5 review at All About Jazz
  3. ↑ Collins, Troy. System of 5 review at All About Jazz
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