for Solo Clarinet and Strings
This is a folkloristic greek dance (Kalamatianos) which is popular all over Greece. Here it was enriched by a classical touch and a feeling of swing at the end by the lines of Cello and Double-bass.

02 - Greek Dance

About Vassilis Papadopoulos:
Vassilis was born in central Greece. He started music relatively early on in his life. By the age of ten he was playing the trumpet and at nineteen he won a scholarship competition to study in England. Later on he persued his studies in Germany, taking up percussion as well. 
He was employed full-time as a percussion-player in opera-houses and leading symphony orchestras while travelling extensively in Europe, Japan, USA, South-America and China.
Lectureship in a "Musikhochschule" (academy of music) in Germany.
From very early on in his life Vassilis was intensively involved in Jazz. Now, after a long and succesful career in classical music he has returned to his old love ... Jazz!

CD
"Amaryllis", recorded at Cliffsound Studios, N.Y. (2011)
Composed, arranged and produced by Vassilis Papadopoulos.
Featuring: Bill Evans tenor- and soprano sax - Bill Harris tenor sax  and bass clarinet - Ken Gioffre tenor sax - Don Harris trumpet and fl.horn - Clifford Carter keys - Dave Anderson bass - Joel Rosenblatt drums -

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