Grigoris Theodoridis
The double bassist Grigoris Theodoridis was born and raised in Agrinio city (Greece). Despite the difficulties of the Greek countryside, he managed to get seriously involved with music from an early age and to indulge in Jazz and improvisational music. Later, at the age of 17, where he moved to Athens, he studied Jazz and classical double bass. In 2011 he moved to the Netherlands to study jazz performance at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague and received his diploma with honors in 2016. Since 2017 he has traveled and played music all around the world, at festivals in Europe and jazz venues in New York,Tokyo, Shanghai, London, Copenhagen etc.
During his travels to New York he was a student of the legendary double bass player Ron Carter (Miles Davis Quintet) as well as Orlando le Fleming. He has attended seminars and lectures by Larry Grenadier, Joe Martin, Brad Mehldau, Jeff Ballard, Enrico Pieranunzi, Mark Guiliana, John Patitucci, Vijay Iyer and David Liebman among others.
No submissions for Beyond Music Project Volume 4.
Open Up is a chant celebrating creative spirits, freedom, and all the good values of life. Again - I considered these to be part of the process of healing and communal togetherness, which are inevitable coming through the crisis. Musically speaking we literally 'opened up' the music - and all the 3 soloists of us in this tune (myself, Carlos on tenor, and Dimitris on vibes) were given space to express ourselves.
The title is kind of a word game- meaning both 'entertainer' and also an homage to the late great McCoy Tyner, whose music I find incredibly inspiring - not only in a musical sense but also in terms of vitality and wisdom and similar attributes. I seriously think we need this 'entertainment' aspect as well, while we are finding our way out of these current crises and conflicts. As for ourselves as musicians, we simply had a ball recording this one!
This recently composed tune is meant to catch the positive spirits and hopes about getting through these challenging times - conflict times. Story-wise the song moves from contemplative moods slowly towards more open views and finally finding energy and strengths. In a musical sense, the main theme is presented various times in different shades and colors, with still lots of improvisation. All of these musicians showed a great deal of musicianship while putting this piece together.
No submissions for Beyond Music Project Volume 2.
No submissions for Beyond Music Project Volume 1.