Adam Nussbaum, Ron Affif, Abdullah Ibrahim, Ronnie Burrage, Sylvia Cuenca, Gene Calderazzo, Jason Yarde, Milcho Leviev, Juliet Kelly, Liam Noble, Ingrid Laubrock, TW, Jamie Cullum, Deborah Davis, Ron McClure, Ed Schuller, Larry Gray, Joel Spencer, Craig Bailey, Rex Richardson, Olivier Gatto, Benjamin Henoque, Greek Warriors, The Greek Gang...
Dimitri Vassilakis Quintet Live @ Saras
Four Women
''Icarus In Flight'' Live at Technopolis Festival with Jamie Cullum, Dave O' Higgins, Eirinaios Koulouras, Sebastian De Krom
Influences
Sonny Rollins, John Coltrane, Joe Henderson, Chet Baker, Miles Davis, Charles Mingus, Elvin Jones, Max Roach, Art Blakey, Duke Ellington, Nat King Cole, Tony Benett, John Hendricks, Nina Simone, Blossom Dearie...
Dimitri Vassilakis Quintet Live @ Saras Theatre Markopoulo Attika Greece August 30th 2008
Bye Bye Blackbird
Sounds Like
...His timbre is soaked in thick, slow harmonic molasses... One Way Magazine LA
...Vassilakis leads a trio that includes bassist Essiet Essiet and drummer Jeff “Tain” Watts in a set of venturesome groove-based originals. He has nice chops, plenty of energy, original approach...I’ve little doubt that if these three played live, it would burn… Jazz Times
...An album that's filled with exquisite musicianship, fire, and hard-swinging grooves—could justifiably put Greek saxophonist Dimitrios Vassilakis on the who’s who list of world-class reed players... All About Jazz
...Vassilakis is a consistently interesting and often very impressive player…conjures amazing depths of color and harmonic resonance from his group…themes inspired by modern jazz filtered through a unique imagination and delivered by a powerfully individual voice... The Penguin Guide to jazz on CD 7th edition
"Infinite grace, poetry and passion" BBC Music Magazine
driven by Bentley
"Greek saxophone prodigy Dimitri Vassilakis is revered as the Hellenic god of post-modern expression as he proves on his provocative new CD Parallel Lines (Candid). A rhapsodic stylist of immense power and authority." London Jazz Festival
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