Charis II - Baritone Saxophone

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The return to his home country found Charis collaborating with various musicians and appearing in all the major clubs and festivals around Cyprus as well as in various venues around the world including performances in Greece, Kuwait, Kazakhstan, Poland, Serbia, Spain, England, Italy, Luxembourg, Belgium, Holland, Lebanon, Germany, Senegal and the U.

Charis has also collaborated with the American Embassy in Cyprus in a Bi-Communal Jazz program called Jazz Futures through which he has appeared all over Cyprus performing alongside the group of Ari Roland and Chris Byars for 6 years during the period In he led BopCy, a quartet with all Cypriot musicians and won the 2nd place in the first Greek jazz competition held in Athens in the same year and appeared in Syros as part of the International Jazz Day He has conducted numerous workshops in Cyprus, Lebanon, Greece and Italy.

Charis is currently teaching the saxophone and the jazz idiom at The University of Nicosia and continuing to perform and record as a leader as well as a sideman in Cyprus and abroad. Our site uses cookies and other tracking technologies to tailor your experience, understand how you and other visitors use our site, and to target and tailor our advertising. For more information on how to withdraw consent and how to manage the use of cookies on this site, please refer to our tracking tools policy.

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Sometimes the baritone is playing the lead. This requires a different attitude.

You are the guy setting the sound and attitude for the section, and let us not forget how often we are playing the roots for chordal settings. We are the foundation, and we set up the overtones for the rest of the section. The pitch is crucial.

Try playing a little sharp or flat and listen to the chaos ensue. Here are some additional rolls we play. While playing with the brass section, be it trumpets, trombones, or both together, I try to feel like a brass player.

I often double tongue to match phrasing. Once again, I am ever aware of the lead player.

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Often we double the bass trombone. For several years I played in a section that included bass trombone, tuba, and baritone sax, tripling each other.

In this case, I considered the sound of the tuba, round and resonant along with the edgier tone of the bass trombone. I put myself right in the middle creating the effect of a single tone with 3 different tone qualities. Playing with the rhythm section has other challenges.

When playing with an electric bass, I adjust my tone and attack to match it. The facility with which a pianist executes his bass line requires me to be lighter and more precise. What about playing baritone with woodwinds? Obviously, we can very easily overshadow them.

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