''Circuitous'' is an album by jazz pianist

Pandelis Karayorgis Pandelis Karayorgis (born 1962) is a Greek-born and Boston-based pianist, composer and educator. Life and career 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 wa ...

, 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 ''

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'' inspired the instrumentation for this project, a quintet with two tenors as the main horns.''Circuitous''
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Reception

In a double review for ''

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'' Josef Woodard notes that "the Chicago-based quintet steers perceptions toward comparisons to classic jazz quintet paradigm, different in form and function though it may be."Woodard, Josef. ''Circuitous'' review. ''Down Beat'' February 14: page 91. Print. The

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review by Glenn Astarita states "Never one to run short on creative sparks, the pianist is a sly arranger, and these works are asymmetrically synched within organization and improvisation. Moreover, several of these pieces are influenced by

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, primarily from an unconventional rhythmic standpoint amid odd-metered expressionism."Astarita, Glenn
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The Point of Departure review by Troy Collins says "Karayorgis' Chicago quintet offers an intriguing alternative to his Boston-based ensemble, ''System Of 5''. Similar, but distinct from its East Coast counterpart, the lineup documented on ''Circuitous'' explores territory consistent with Karayorgis' oeuvre, which demonstrates a masterful reinvention of post-bop vernacular, expertly balancing the accessibility of the mainstream with the vitalizing freedom of the avant-garde."Collins, Troy
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Track listing

:''All compositions by Pandelis Karayorgis'' # "Undertow" – 6:04 # "Nudge" – 6:30 # "Swarm" – 9:37 # "Circuitous" – 5:30 # "Vortex" – 8:52 # "Evenfall" – 4:36 # "Blue Line" – 9:15 # "Here in July" – 5:18 # "Souvenir" – 5:26

Personnel

* Dave Rempis -

tenor sax The tenor saxophone is a medium-sized member of the saxophone family, a group of instruments invented by Adolphe Sax in the 1840s. The tenor and the alto are the two most commonly used saxophones. The tenor is pitched in the key of B (while th ...

alto sax The alto saxophone is a member of the saxophone family of woodwind instruments. Saxophones were invented by Belgian instrument designer Adolphe Sax in the 1840s and patented in 1846. The alto saxophone is pitched in E, smaller than the B tenor ...

baritone sax The baritone saxophone is a member of the saxophone family of instruments, larger (and lower-pitched) than the tenor saxophone, but smaller (and higher-pitched) than the bass. It is the lowest-pitched saxophone in common use - the bass, contra ...

*Keefe Jackson - tenor sax,

bass clarinet The bass clarinet is a musical instrument of the clarinet family. Like the more common soprano B clarinet, it is usually pitched in B (meaning it is a transposing instrument on which a written C sounds as B), but it plays notes an octave bel ...

contrabass clarinet The contrabass clarinet (also pedal clarinet, after the pedals of pipe organs) and contra-alto clarinet are the two largest members of the clarinet family that are in common usage. Modern contrabass clarinets are transposing instruments pitched ...

piano The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a keyboa ...

*Nate McBride -

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*Frank Rosaly -

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References

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