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Lefteris Kordis: Mediterrana

Read "Mediterrana" reviewed by Neri Pollastri


Da tempo residente negli Stati Uniti e oggi professore al Berklee College, il pianista e compositore Lefteris Kordis è però originario di Atene e mostra di non aver dimenticato la musica ascoltata in giovane età e le tradizioni musicali delle sue terre, studiate nel corso della sua formazione artistica. Questo disco, basato su formazioni variabili di traccia in traccia, è dedicato alla Grecia e ne riprende, rielaborandoli, temi e atmosfere. Tre dei brani sono in trio (uno è ...

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Alec Spiegelman / Lefteris Kordis / Thor Thorvaldsson: Bebop Trio

Read "Bebop Trio" reviewed by Mark Corroto


The theme of “walk, don't run" occurs throughout the entirety of Bebop Trio, a suite of improvisations on the sometimes pell-mell music of Herbie Nichols, Lennie Tristano, Elmo Hope, Bud Powell, George Shearing and Duke Ellington. Played by three accommodating and adaptive musicians, the familiar and frenetic becomes casual and conversant. Where Powell's “Celia" is usually consumed with a bebop pulse, the trio skirts the conventional approach, serving the meal as mere aroma, though there is quite enough ...

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Clarinet

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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Mediterrana

Inner Circle Music
2016

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Bebop Trio

Creative Nation Music
2011

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