Wednesday 6 February at  22.30
Afrikana Jazz Bar, Ierofanton 13 Kerameikos
entry 5€

Andreas Thermos Sextet

A Jazz reunion with good old friends and musicians. The band, on the basis of its common favorite music path, will present selected material from well-known recordings by Roy Hargrove, Freddie Hubbard, Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock, Tom Waits and others. The music has been arranged for 3 horns, giving more strengh and dynamics to the tunes for a powerful live music night!

The group was created in 2018 by the common desire of the musicians for a project that will give a different tone to pieces that they already like as well as some originals. It contains interesting arrangements for six performers that follows the Jazz tradition with a more contemporary aesthetics including pop, blues and gospel vibes on the show. This performance is not just a collaboration to showcase an individual project but more of a collective that all the musicians known to the Jazz audience from their journey will each give their best.

Personnel:
Antonis Andreou – Trombone
Manos – Theodosakis – Trumpet
Andreas Thermos – Saxophones
Giorgos Kontrafouris – Piano
Periklis Trivolis – Upright Bass
Alexandros Drakos Ktistakis – Drums

Andreas Thermos

Born in Athens, Greece. Studied the Piano at an early age and then he started playing the Saxophone. His teachers were David Lynch, Dimitri Vassilakis and Takis Paterelis. He graduated from the music high school of Pallini (Athens) and Nakas conservatory. In 1995 he was awarded with a scholarship to attend Berklee College of Music. He graduated from Berklee in 2000 with a bachelor on Performance. While he was in the U.S.A he represented Berklee in many events and had the opportunity to study or perform with many artists such us: eorge Garzone, Billy Pierce, Αndy McGhee, Jerry Bergonzi, Hal Crook, Phil Wilson Big Band, Kendrick Scott, Mark Kelley, Milan Milanovic, Lionel Louke, Vardan Ovsepian,Theodossi Spassov, Jesus Santandreu, Damian Draghici κ.α.

After staying in NYC for one year he returned to Greece. He has collaborated with many Greek artists such as: George Kontrafouris, Takis Farazis, Takis Paterelis, Dimitris Vasilakis, Adonis Andreou, Adedeji Adetayo, Alexandros Ktistakis, Irineos Koulouras, Lefteris Kordis, Kostas Kouvidis, Dimitris Tsakas, Dimitris Sevdalis, Michalis Kapilidis, Manos Saridakis, Kostas Liolios, Andreas Polyzogopoulos, Kostis Christodoulou, Kostas Maginas, Nikolas Anadolis to name a few. He has also performed with Dick Griffin, Daniel Tilling, Shelley Burns, Jason Yarde, Javier Vercher, Raynald Colom, Sheldon Waits and others, in various festivals and concerts.

Antonis Andreou

Born in Lamia, Greece in 1981, Antonis Andreou studied trombone, piano, and music theory at the local music school and later went on to earn his degree from the Athens’ Conservatory “P.Nakas.”  He performs internationally with numerous groups in a variety of genres, leads his own jazz quintet, was a member of the European Jazz Orchestra 2008 and since 1999 has served as the lead trombonist of the Athens Big Band. He is a trombone teacher since 2007 at the Art Music School Y.Fakanas. 

Antonis has studied in with Marc Nightingale, Jiggs Whigham, Wycliffe Gordon, Jonas Bylund, Ingemar Roos and Scott Hartman among others. He has toured and recorded with several artists, bands and orchestras including: the Symphonic Orchestra of Athens, Camerata string Orchestra, Olympic Games Orchestra 2004, Anthony Jackson, Horacio el Negro Hernandez, Dennis Chambers, Dave Weckl, Yiorgos Fakanas group, Mike Stern, Bob Franceschini, Tony Lakatos, Alex Foster, Jeff Tain Watts, Jeff Boudreaux, Mark Abrams, Jason Yard, Brett Garsed, Amik Querra, Jimmy Bosch, Rex Richardson, V Dimartino, Doretta Carter, Gloria Gaynor, Mikis Theodorakis, Dionisis Savvopoulous, Anna Vissi, E. Arvanitaki and many more…

Antonis joined Pink Martini in 2013, and is responsible for the killer whistling solo on “Pata Pata” on Je dis oui! 

George Kontrafouris

George Kontrafouris was born in Athens, Greece in 1967. He studied classical piano at the National Conservatory in Athens. At the age of 16, he turned his interest to jazz music and he followed up jazz improvised lessons with Markos Alexiou. He studied also with Jim Beard and Jarmo Savolainen. He holds a Bachelor’s degree and a Master’s degree in Jazz Performance from Sibelius Academy in Finland. 
He has performed as piano or organ player with many famous and outstanding musicians such as: Mark Johnson, Arild Andersen, Marcus Stockhausen, Louisiana Red, Keith Copeland, Andy Sheppard, Ralph Peterson Jr., Bob Brozman, Carla Cook, Alvester Garnett, Stepko Gut, Olivier Gatto, David Liebman, Houston Pearson, Eric Alexander, David Sills, Lou Donaldson, Sam Newsome, Jamie Hadad, Deborah Davies, Benny Golson, Tim Hagans, Bob Shepard, Carmen Lundy, Sheila Jordan, Jukkis Uotila, Wade Mikkola, Takis Paterelis, Stratos Vougas, Dimos Dimitriadis, Lydia Fylipovic, T. Spasov, A. Pacatius, Alex Foster, Adam Nussbaum, Dean Bowman, Olivier Temime, Anne Paceo… 

He has been teaching jazz piano and organ for several years in Athenaeum Conservatory in Greece and in Sibelius Academy in Finland and he is currently belongs to the faculty of the Ionian University in Corfu. He has already given Master Classes in various schools in Greece, Ireland, Indonesia, and Estonia so far.
Discography

o Little Daddy’s Blues, (Chicken Coup Records, 2007) with George Kontrafouris: hammond organ; Manuel Dunkel: tenor sax; Sami Linna: guitar; Jussi Lehtonen: Drums
o My only way, (Europe Records, 2002), solo piano.
o Too Close, (Legend, 2000), George Kontrafouris: piano; featuring Ralph Peterson Jr. on drums; John Papatriantafillou: bass;
o Don’t Be shy, (Lyra, 1997) George Kontrafouris: piano; John Papatriantafillou: bass; Christos Andrianos: drums.

Periklis Trivolis

He was born in Athens in 1975 and began his studies in music theory, harmony and electric bass at the Philippos Nakas Conservatory. From 1998 to 2001 he studied jazz composition at the Berklee College of Music in Boston, where he also began acoustic bass classes. Since 2003 he has been working in Athens as a professional musician and he collaborates with many well-known artists, both Greeks and foreigners, in the field of jazz music. He has taught a series of crossbass seminars at the Department of Music Studies of the Ionian University in Corfu for a period of 4 years. He is a double-bass teacher at the Athens Conservatory’s Jazz Department.

He has appeared in major concert halls (such as the Concert Hall of Athens and Thessaloniki, the House of Arts and Letters etc.) and has collaborated with internationally known jazz artists (Tony Lacatos, Marcus Stockhausen, Gilad Atzmond, Simon Nabatov, Rex Richardson, Alex Foster etc.) and has participated in a series of jazz workshops as a professor. He has also participated in numerous radio and television shows and has participated in hundreds of jazz concerts as well as music festivals both in Greece and abroad.

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Αλέξανδρος Κτιστάκης

Αντώνης Ανδρέου

Ανδρέας Θερμός

Γιώργος Κοντραφούρης

Μάνος Θεοδοσάκης

Περικλής Τριβώλης