Karayorgis Pandelis

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Title

Karayorgis Pandelis

Identifier

VA

Instrument

piano

Discography

As a leader:
Hand Made (Om Center) 1989
The Other Name (Motive Productions) 1992
Heart and Sack (Leo Lab) 1998
Blood Ballad (Leo records) 2001
Seventeen pieces (Leo records) 2004
Carameluia (Ayler records) 2007
System of 5 (hatOLOGY) 2011
Cocoon (Driff records) 2013
Circuitous (Driff records) 2013
Cliff (Driff records) 2018
Pools (Driff records) 2018
Afterimage (Driff records) 2019
Cliff Pools (Driff records) 2020
The Hasaan, Hope & Monk Project (Driff records) 2022

As a co-leader:
Karayorgis/Pakula/Rosenthal Quartet: Between speech and song (Cadence) 1994
Pandelis Karayorgis/Mat Maneri: In time (Leo Lab) 1994
Karayorgis/Pakula Quartet: Lines (Accurate) 1995
Pandelis Karayorgis/Mat Maneri: Lift & Poise (Leo Lab) 1998
Pandelis Karayorgis/Nate McBride: Let it (Cadence) 2001
Pandelis Karayorgis/Ken Vandermark/Nate McBride: No such Thing (Boxholder) 2001
Pandelis Karayorgis/Mat Maneri Quintet: Disambiguation (Leo Lab) 2002
Karayorgis/McBride/Newton: We will make a home for you (Clean Feed) 2005
Pandelis Karayorgis/Guillermo Gregorio/Nate McBride: Chicago approach (Nuscope recordings) 2007
Karayorgis/McBride/Newton (MI3): Free advice (Clean Feed) 2007
Pandelis Karayorgis/Ken Vandermark: Foreground music (Okka disk) 2007
Karayorgis/McBride/Newton (MI3): Betwixt (hatOLOGY) 2008
Construction Party: Instruments of Change (Not Two records) 2012
The Whammies: Play the music of Steve Lacy (Driff records) 2012
The Whammies: Play the music of Steve Lacy, Vol 2 (Driff records) 2013
Pandelis Karayorgis/Guillermo Gregorio/Steve Swell: Window and doorway (Driff records) 2013
The Whammies: Play the music of Steve Lacy, Live (Driff records) 2014
Jorrit Dijkstra, Pandelis Karayorgis, Nate McBride, Curt Newton:
Matchbox (Driff records) 2015
Bathysphere: Bathysphere (Driff Records) 2015
Strawboss: Kasper Tranberg (ILK) 2018
The Diagonal: Filter (Not Two) 2018
Jorrit Dijkstra, Jeb Bishop, Pandelis Karayorgis, Nate McBride, Luther Gray: Cutout (Driff records) 2020
Karayorgis/Smith Rosenthal Trio: Precipice (Fundacja Sluchaj!) 2020
Forbes Graham, Jeb Bishop, Pandelis Karayorgis, Nate McBride, Kresten Osgood: Water Lilies (Driff records) 2022
Jeb Bishop, Pandelis Karayorgis, Damon Smith: Duals (Driff records) 2022

As a sideman:
Mode Plagal: Mode Plagal (Ano Kato records) 1995
Guillermo Gregorio
: Approximately (HatART) 1996
Guillermo Gregorio: Red Cube(d) (HatOLOGY) 1999
Kasper Tranberg:
Strawboss (ILK 279) 2018
Jeff Platz group: 10db (Digital release) 2020 

Compilations:
10 Jazz & Tzaz Favorites (Jazz & Tzaz) 2003

Short Biography

Pandelis Karayorgis was born in Athens in 1962. He studied piano and performed in various jazz groups in Greece. In 1985 he moved to Boston and earned BM and MM degrees in music from New England Conservatory, studying with Paul Bley, Jimmy Giuffre, George Russell, Dave Holland and Joe Maneri.
He has led or co-led numerous groups in performances at festivals and clubs in Europe and the United States and Canada. His recordings appear on labels such as Hat Art, Clean Feed and Leo Records and more recently on Driff Records, an artist-run label co-founded by him and Jorrit Dijkstra.
Some of the most extensive recording/performing collaborations have been with Nate McBride, Curt Newton, Ken Vandermark, Mat Maneri, Guillermo Gregorio, Jorrit Dijkstra, Jeb Bishop, Luther Gray, Jef Charland, Randy Peterson and Dave Rempis, while he has also performed with artists such as Han Bennink, Steve Swell, Tony Malaby, Michael Formanek, Chad Taylor and Jeff Parker.
He has studied and performed extensively Thelonious Monk’s and his debut album "Hand Made" with four Monk’s compositions, was released in 1989.

Short biography in greek

Ο Παντελής Καραγιώργης γεννήθηκε στην Αθήνα το 1962. Σπούδασε πιάνο και έπαιξε με διάφορα τζαζ γκρουπ στην Ελλάδα. Το 1985 εγκαταστάθηκε στη Βοστόνη και πήρε πτυχίο και μεταπτυχιακό από το New England Conservatory, μελετώντας με τον Paul Bley, τον Jimmy Giuffre, τον George Russell, τον Dave Holland και τον Joe Maneri.
Έχει ηγηθεί πολλών σχημάτων σε αμέτρητες εμφανίσεις σε φεστιβάλ και κλαμπ στην Ευρώπη, την Αμερική και τον Καναδά.
Οι ηχογραφήσεις του έχουν κυκλοφορήσει από εταιρείες όπως οι Hat Art, Clean Feed και Leo Records και πιο πρόσφατα από την Driff Records, μια ανεξάρτητη εταιρεία που ίδρυσε μαζί με τον Jorrit Dijkstra.
Μερικές από τις πιο συχνές ηχογραφήσεις και εμφανίσεις του είναι με τους Nate McBride, Curt Newton, Ken Vandermark, Mat Maneri, Guillermo Gregorio, Jorrit Dijkstra, Jeb Bishop, Luther Gray, Jef Charland, Randy Peterson και Dave Rempis, ενώ έχει επίσης συνεργαστεί με μουσικούς όπως ο Han Bennink, ο Steve Swell, ο Tony Malaby, ο Michael Formanek, ο Chad Taylor και ο Jeff Parker.
Έχει μελετήσει ιδιαίτερα τη μουσική του Thelonious Monk και το πρώτο του άλμπουμ "Hand Made" που περιλάμβανε τέσσερις συνθέσεις του Monk, κυκλοφόρησε το 1989.

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