Magnanimus Trio

With their scintillating and inclusive vision of jazz, Magnanimus Trio are one of the most admired and influential of Eastern-Greek jazz ensembles. They managed to evolve the form with their compelling harmonics and improv techniques, offering a diverse combination of warm and chilled grooves, and visually stimulating performances.

The band was formed in Thessaloniki, Greece, in 2010, by piano and ney player Christos Barbas, drummer and pianist Dimitris Tasoudis, and bassist Pavlos Spyropoulos. Their debut album, “A Cue” was an hour of improvisations deeply steeped in minimalism, while their sophomore “Still Time” offered a blend of original compositions and improvisations, introducing modal jazz elements, minute compositions & ballads for voice and kaval (wooden flute). With their third official release, “No Time”, the three musicians have found the way to put together their influences even more seamlessly in thirteen compositions that connect Eastern-European traditions to the modern world, including a jazz take on a Shakespearean sonnet, with a wonderful result.

Magnanimus Trio treats jazz organically, their sound is a swirling cascade of modern and minimalistic jazz, improvisation and tradition, as a symbiotic relationship that is deeply established between trio members, breaking sonic grounds while remaining lyric and fluid throughout. Since their beginning they have collaborated with important figures of world & jazz music, such as John Taylor, Erkan Oğur, Derya Turkan, Murat Aydemir, Ζohar Fresco Quartet, Ross Daly, Sokratis Sinopoulos, Zezo Olimpio, Efrén López, Thomas Strønen, and Björn Meyer, among many.

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