Seventeen Pieces

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Released 2004 Studio WGBH studios, Boston Artist Pandelis Karayorgis Label Leo Records		Recorded April, 2004 Length 60:30 Release date 2004 Genre Jazz
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Seventeen Pieces is the first solo album by jazz pianist Pandelis Karayorgis, which was recorded in 2004 and released on the English Leo label. With the exception of one track ("Fink Sink Tink"), the remaining sixteen all are pieces he has recorded and performed with other musicians.

Reception

In his review for AllMusic, Stewart Mason states "Karayorgis ignores standard rhythms almost entirely on these songs, interspersing long legato phrases, brief passages of near-silence, and sudden bursts of musical energy that suggest a piano version of John Coltrane's sheets of sound approach."

The Penguin Guide to Jazz says that "Karayorgis has developed a powerful piano language of his own and this is its definitive statement to date."

The Exclaim! review by Nate Dorward states "The teasing, elusive nature of the music can sometimes verge on coyness, but there’s no doubt that Karayorgis is a true original. Seventeen Pieces is an album with the devious, glimmering weightlessness of a spider web."