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5.0 out of 5 stars
selected reviews of labyrinth, July 25, 2002
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This review is from: Labyrinth: Daedalus Project (Audio CD)
Infinite grace, poetry and passion inform this labyrinthine music...an excellent saxophonist and composer. BBC Music Magazine
(Jazz album of the month March 2002)
An album of the year. Jazz Review
Leader Vassilakis' compositions offer a perfect platform for post-modern expression...whiz-kid tenor player from Greece...post-Coltrane, post-Rollins style...high-energy and immensely fluid, Vassilakis draws stylistic fragments at will from the tradition, mediating taking the informed listener on a kaleidoscopic (or labyrinthine) ride through allusions and associations, all of which have emotional effects-overall, euphorically dizzying.
New York Press
(Live at Birdland)
Sweet, fluent, expressive, robust post-Coltrane style...an outstanding album.
Jazzwise
As this album shows, he is an impressive musician; his authorship does not seem to restrict the variety of his solo responses, while his rhapsodic work has an almost Rollins-like swagger.
Jazz Journal
Simply the best album in the field of the Greek jazz discography, mature playing, very high level of compositions, warm, melodic, polyrhythmic and full of little twists and turns.
Sound & Hi-Fi magazine (Athens)
Their duet showed that Abdullah Ibrahim and Dimitri Vassilakis have much in common as players; their approach to rhythm and space and a heritage of Eastern intonation. Both like to use the full range of their instruments and Vassilakis had fun on an edgy Well You Needn't, mirroring the pianist's precipitous dips to the bottom of the scale. Both players gave bravura performances and although the duet didn't last as long as one would wish, their playing provided a tantalizing glimpse of musical possibilities.
The Star (South Africa)
(Live at State Theatre Pretoria)
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