Georges Arvanitas was a jazz pianist and organist.

Life and career

He began life as a child of Greek immigrants from Constantinople

Constantinople

Constantinople was the capital of the Roman, Eastern Roman, Byzantine, Latin, and Ottoman Empires. Throughout most of the Middle Ages, Constantinople was Europe's largest and wealthiest city.-Names:...

. At the age of four he began studying piano and initially trained as a classical. However he switched to jazz some time in his teens and would be known for jazz in adulthood. His influences included Bud Powell

Bud Powell

Earl Rudolph "Bud" Powell was an American Jazz pianist. Powell has been described as one of "the two most significant pianists of the style of modern jazz that came to be known as bop", the other being his friend and contemporary Thelonious Monk...

 and Bill Evans

Bill Evans

William John Evans, known as Bill Evans was an American jazz pianist. His use of impressionist harmony, inventive interpretation of traditional jazz repertoire, and trademark rhythmically independent, "singing" melodic lines influenced a generation of pianists including: Chick Corea, Herbie...

. In the late '50s, he recorded on albums by Art Farmer and Louis Hayes, and played with Dexter Gordon

Dexter Gordon

Dexter Gordon was an American jazz tenor saxophonist and an Academy Award-nominated actor . He is regarded as one of the first and most important musicians to adapt the bebop musical language of people like Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, and Bud Powell to the tenor saxophone...

 and Johnny Griffin

Johnny Griffin

John Arnold Griffin III was an American bop and hard bop tenor saxophonist.- Early life and career :Griffin studied music at DuSable High School in Chicago under Walter Dyett, starting out on clarinet before moving on to oboe and then alto sax...

. He also worked with Yusef Lateef

Yusef Lateef

Dr. Yusef Lateef is an American Grammy Award-winning jazz multi-instrumentalist, composer, educator and a spokesman for the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community after his conversion to the Ahmadiyya sect of Islam in 1950.Although Lateef's main instruments are the tenor saxophone and flute, he is known for...

.

Discography

• « Georges Arvanitas trio in concert » - Futura Ger 11 (1969)
• « Space ballad » (1970)
• « Les classiques du jazz » (1970)
• « Ambiance Musique Luis Conti » (1971)
• « Brigitte Fontaine
  Brigitte Fontaine
  Brigitte Fontaine, born in 1939 in Morlaix in the Brittany region of France, is a singer of avant-garde music. During the course of her career she has employed numerous unusual musical styles, melding rock and roll, folk, jazz, electronica, spoken word poetry and world rhythms...
  
   » (1972)
• « Douce ambiance » (1972)
• « Porgy and Bess » (1973)
• « Live again » - Futura Ger 38-39 (1973)
• « Anniversary » (1976)
• « I like it cool » (1976)
• « Feeling jazzy » (1977)
• « Swing again » (1978)
• « The hound of music" (1978)
• « Round about midnight » (1985)
• « Qu'est-ce qu'on joue ? » (1986)
• « Quartet » (1987)
• « Orgue Hammond » (1988)
• « Bird of paradise » (1988)
• « One night for 3 pianos » (1989)
• A alors (1990)
• Georges Arvanitas plays George Gershwin (1993)
• Georges Arvanitas plays… Duke Ellington (1993)
• Live (1993)
• Rencontre (1997) - with Ira Coleman
  Ira Coleman (musician)
  Ira Coleman is an American jazz bassist.He appears on four albums by Paris-based pianist Laurent de Wilde and has worked with artists such as Dee Dee Bridgewater, Milt Jackson, Ulf Wakenius, John Esposito, Joanne Brackeen, Herbie Hancock and Tony Williams....
  
   and Joe Chambers
  Joe Chambers
  Joe Chambers is an American jazz drummer, pianist, vibraphonist and composer. He attended the Philadelphia Conservatory for one year. In the 1960s and 70s Chambers gigged with many high-profile artists such as Eric Dolphy, Charles Mingus, Lou Donaldson, Chick Corea, Freddie Hubbard, Jimmy Giuffre...
  
  
• My favorite piano songs (1997)
• Little Florence (2000)

External links

• Album Live Again at www.sefronia.com