George Cotsirilos - Past Presents - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

As a follow up to his 2003 solo guitar Silencioso, San Francisco's George Cotsirilos teams with his Bay-area trio for an alternately swinging and introspective set of standards and originals. A former co-leader of the San Francisco Blackhawks with drummer Eddie Marshall, Cotsirilos has been a fixture of the Bay-area scene for many years.

After presenting a program of gnarly originals for quartet on InchUltimatumInch (CRC #1222), his Criss Cross debut, pianist George Colligan offers a beautifully paced trio recital. Mixing well-wrought originals with iconic standards like InchSophistcated LadyInch and InchBody and SoulInch and such less-traveled repertoire as InchHoliday for StringsInch and InchThree Views of a Secret,Inch Colligan again displays the musicality and personal perspective that have marked his oeuvre over the past decade. In the rhythm section bassist Vicente Archer and drummer Bill Stewart.

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