This is the first CD of the Band.
The Next Step Quintet was created in the fall of 2011 by five young and talented musicians: Orfeas Tsoukalas, Thodoris Kotsyfas, Giannis Papadopoulos, Ntinos Manos and Vasilis Podaras. They met as students at the Music Department of the Ionian University where they participated in a variety of projects. In Athens they met by chance with the Greco-origin Orpheus Tsoukalas and realized that the five had a common vision of music. Five young musicians with an average age of 25 years – which is unusual for the musical idiom serving and the country in which they live and act – sign an album imaginative, direct, technically. An album that sounds comfortably prototype.The album includes 9 modern jazz compositions. The quintet attempts to express its own take on contemporary jazz music through original compositions.
The whole album stands at a very high level. This just proves what we hope is now obvious: the level of jazz in Greece is at the level of international standards.
https://soundcloud.com/puzzlemusik/the-next-step-quintet
More about The Next Step Quintet : http://www.jazzonline.gr/en/cd-releases/item/1629-the-next-step-quintet.html
The Next Step Quintet Interview : http://www.jazzonline.gr/en/articlesinterviews/interviews/item/1818-the-next-step-quintet-interview.html