NICKOS KAPILIDIS & JAZZ UTOPIA

A day with NICKOS KAPILIDIS & JAZZ UTOPIA at LIBRA RADIO:
Thursday, 3.08.2006
One hour show with NICKOS KAPILIDIS & JAZZ UTOPIA:
Thursday,3.08.2006 at 23:00 CET

Born in 1955 in Xanthi, Greece, Nickos Kapilidis got first involved with the music at the age of 8 years . His father owned a small shop with the records and during his visits the little boy gradually went into the greatest discovery of his life - the magical world of the music. For him it was the point of no return. He simply got poisoned with everything music can offer. During the following years he attended music lessons for Bouzouki, Accordeon, Trumpet,Flute, Piano and at the age of 13 he started playing drums with various pop rock bands. For several years he played with his father and his brothers in a "Family band" that cruised around and played traditional greek music. In 1985 he formed "Percussion Ensemble of Thessaloniki".
During his career he had played with various bands in Greece, Switzerland, Germany and France.
The last several years he had focused in the study of the Greek odd rhythms (5/8, 7/8, 9/8 etc.)writing a book about this subject and forming the following bands:
Serious Fun (1996), Ebnus Jazz Quintet(2000), The Jazz Utopia (2001).
The latest - Jazz Utopia - is a quartet with soprano sax, guitar, bass and drums.
Their album - Arothymian, which was published in 2005 and represents the point of our concern, is a smart blending of different melodic and rhythmic elements of Greek music and colourful harmonies enriched with jazz elements.
You can buy this cd here or here.
Thanks for the music, Nickos!