Georges Arvanitas

Georges Arvanitas (June 13, 1931 – September 25, 2005) was a French jazz pianist and organist.^[1]

Life and career

He was born in Marseille, a child of Arvanite Greek immigrants from Constantinople. At the age of four he began studying piano and initially trained as a classical pianist, switching to jazz some time in his teens.^[2] His influences included Bud Powell and Bill Evans. In the late 1950s, he featured on albums by Art Farmer and Louis Hayes, and played with Dexter Gordon and Johnny Griffin.^[3] He also worked with Yusef Lateef.^[4]

Discography

Georges Arvanitas trio - Cocktail For Three - Pretoria (1959)
Georges Arvanitas trio in concert - Futura Ger 11 (1969)
Space Ballad (1970)
Les classiques du jazz (1970)
Ambiance Musique Luis Conti (1971)
Brigitte Fontaine (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 and Joe Chambers
My Favorite Piano Songs (1997)
Little Florence (2000)

With Ted Curson

The New Thing & the Blue Thing (Atlantic, 1965)
Pop Wine (Futura, 1971)
Cattin' Curson (Marge, 1973)

With Yusef Lateef

Psychicemotus (Impulse 1965)

References

^ Cook, Richard (2005). Richard Cook's Jazz Encyclopedia. London: Penguin Books. p. 21. ISBN 0-141-00646-3.
^ "George Arvanitas" (obituary), Daily Telegraph, October 6, 2005.
^ Carr, Ian; Digby Fairweather and Brian Priestley, Rough Guide to Jazz, Rough Guides, 2004, ISBN 1-84353-256-5, ISBN 978-1-84353-256-9.
^ Yusef Lateef and Herb Boyd, The Gentle Giant: The autobiography of Yusef Lateef, Morton Books, 2006, p. 99.

External links

Album Live Again at www.sefronia.com

[RCJE-1] Cook, Richard (2005). Richard Cook's Jazz Encyclopedia. London: Penguin Books. p. 21. ISBN 0-141-00646-3.

[2] "George Arvanitas" (obituary), Daily Telegraph, October 6, 2005.

[3] Carr, Ian; Digby Fairweather and Brian Priestley, Rough Guide to Jazz, Rough Guides, 2004, ISBN 1-84353-256-5, ISBN 978-1-84353-256-9.

[4] Yusef Lateef and Herb Boyd, The Gentle Giant: The autobiography of Yusef Lateef, Morton Books, 2006, p. 99.