Member Since: 4/22/2007
Band Website: musical.gr
Sounds Like: Sotiris Tatsis – First StepComposer and saxophonist, Sotiris Tatsis presents his first ever album with his musical work. The ‘First Step’ has already been released and it contains 15 pieces of jazz-funk. It is a comprehensive and contemporary piece of work, which impresses with its originality and directness.Together with the band Blues Bug, Sotiris Tatsis represented Greece in the International Jazz Festivals in Estonia and Lithuania where they both got the warmest response by the audience and received the best of reviews as they played together with the internationally famous trumpet player Arturo Sandoval, who was the guest of honor.He studied theory, harmony, counterpoint and piano and later, with his saxophone, turned to more ‘contemporary’ studies – jazz, funk, latin, blues as well as to big band orchestration. He has cooperated with well known TV shows (Bravo and Bravo Welcome with Roula Koromila at Mega Channel) and in 2004, he took part in the Olympic Games by organizing the show in honor of the Korean delegates in Greece. Recently, he also cooperated with Despina Vandi at the “Secret Concertâ€. He has also worked with Yiannis Zouganelis in TV, theater and musical productions, a cooperation that is still ongoing. He also plays live in many clubs in Athens.The ‘First Step’ was materialized with the valuable help of the sound technician Damianos Nikolaou, the photographer Kostas Mavrakakis and Yiannis Zouganelis, a friend and valuable partner, as well as with the kind sponsor of Southern Comfort.
Record Label: eros music
Type of Label: Indie