Pandelis Karayorgis
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>the mi3: Karayorgis/McBride/Newton

 

 

 Photos: Michele Macrakis

The mi3 on CD
Click on the CDs below for more information and audio samples.


Betwixt
hatOLOGY 652, 2008
(session photos)


Free Advice

Clean Feed, 2007


We Will Make A Home For You
Clean Feed, 2005

 

 

 


poster by Monte Antrim (click on image for full size)

 

"Free Advice is a timeless trio masterpiece destined to surprise listeners for years to come."
Troy Collins, All About Jazz

"This is a gem. The colors of the Rhodes, the level of musicianship, and good old inspiration make for the most musical of collisions. It hasn’t left my player for weeks. "
Dan Rose, OneFinalNote

"If you asked me to make a long enough wish-list for musical projects, I'm sure I'd wind up asking for a trio with an elite post-jazz keyboardist smearing a Fender Rhodes electric piano over a snap-crackle-pop free jazz rhythm section. You can imagine how great it felt to have any such wish pre-empted by a disc that jumps right into the stratosphere with a leadoff take on Dolphy's "Gazzelloni" that fits the proposable scheme as tight as I could hope for. This disc just destroys me... "
Michael Anton Parker, Downtown Music Gallery (NYC)

"The set consists mostly of Monk tunes, with three Karayorgis originals (including "Disambiguation," one of my faves), one by Hasaan Ibn Ali, and a crushingly good version of [Eric Dolphy's] "Gazzelloni." After a few listens -- especially to their quirky, ruminative "Ugly Beauty" and shifty, mischevious "Monk's Point" -- it's apparent that, as with the best Monk interpreters, there's no slavish appropriation of key monastic gestures....It's a killer recording."
Jason Bivins, Signal to Noise

"Betwixt reveals (Karayorgis) as a sonic architect of the highest order, a visionary improviser whose enthusiasm for the possibilities of sound knows no limit. Together, Karayorgis, McBride and Newton offer a thrilling set guaranteed to turn heads."
Troy Collins , All About Jazz

(full reviews are available on each CD's individual page, click on the CD images to the left)

Boston Globe article ...

 

   
Audio
Excerpts from our 3-month Sunday series at the Abbey Lounge in the Spring of 2002.

From our CD Free Advice featuring acoustic piano:
Who Said What When
(P. Karayorgis)

From our CD Betwixt:
Saturn
(Sun Ra)

(More audio samples are available on each CD's individual page, click on the CD images above.)


 

Video
Composite clip from our May 2003 recording session at the Artits-at-Large Gallery for "We Will Make A Home For You."


Composite clip of the mi3 recording session at the Artits at Large
Gallery. Curt Newton on drums and Nate McBride on bass. May 2003.




       
             
     
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