In this record Kassetas leaves behind the avant-garde jazz and sets up a return-to-form album.
East N Blues includes 12 compositions of Yannis Kassetas recorded in Lofish studios, in Manhattan, New York with mostly american jazz musicians such as :
- the twice winning Grammy - drummer Ulysses Owens Jr.,
- the rising pianist of the New York jazz scene Adam Birnbaum,
- the trumpeter Tatum Greenbalt (Wynton Marsalis says he is one of the best trumpet players of his generation)
- Miles Griffith, the inventive minds perhaps jazz vocalist of the 90's generation from which sprang.
The dream-team adds bassist Apostolos Sideris , a Greek musician who lives and works successfully abroad .
The charismatic Antonis Andreou on trombone play in three tracks.
The album was recorded at Lofish Studios in Manhattan, New York with the sound engineer Reed Taylor, except the parts of Antonis Andreou ( trombone) who recorded retrospectively (overdub) at Lizard Sound Studios ( Athens ) with Dimitris Karpouza .
The mixing and mastering took place in Artracks Studios ( Athens ) by Alexis Bolpasi and George Priniotakis respectively .
Production Yannis Kassetas
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