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George
Theodossiadis
was born in Athens in 1940. He studied music and decoration. He
started his career in 1960 as a disk-jockey at the Greek
National Radio playing rare jazz records. Things got off the
ground in 1963 when he begun to play jazz music with his quartet
on radio broadcasts. In the meantime, he composed the music for
a film called "Jealousy". It was his first soudtrack and
unveiled his jazz influences. During the following decades he
composed and arranged the music for various films. The main
characteristic of these soundtracks was the jazz and latin
influences filtered through his own attitude and the skillfuness
of his musicians. The style of George Theodossiadis as an
arranger and composer varies among cosmopolitan jazz and latin.
Mike Rozakis
was born in the Greek community of Egypt in 1946. He spent his
teens in Zurich, Switzerland where he began his classical guitar
studies. In 1965, at the age of 19, he moved to Athens, Greece
where he continued his music studies in the Greek Odium. In the
meantime, he entered a Greek beat group called The Charms, where
he played the bass and handled the lead vocals. Influenced
himself by R&B music, he transformed the group into one of the
top mod beat acts in the ‘60s scene. By the end of the decade,
he left the group to follow a solo carrier as a singer, while he
continued his music studies in composing and arranging in the
National Odium of Athens. By the early ‘70s, he had become known
as a talented composer and arranger among the elite artistic
circles. Although he never got involved in soundtrack music, the
film score for “She Knew No Other Way” being his sole offer to
this field stands out as an artifact of the psychedelic period
of cinema.
George Hadjinassios
was born in Thessaloniki in 1942. He studied music at the
National Odeum of Thessaloniki and Athens and mastered his music
studies in Paris. He started his career as a jazz piano player
in various night-clubs during the early 60s. He continued to
play in various combos through-out the decade carrying the fame
of one of the best jazz performers in Greece. By the late 60s he
decided to focus on composing and arranging. He composed his
first soudtrack in 1971. It was the "Sinners" and unveiled his
jazz influences and his ability to control 25-piece bands. In
the next few years he continued to compose soundtrack music
marked with his pesonal style. George Hadjinassios became famous
as a composer and arranger during the following years, and is
now regarded as one of the A-class Greek composers. |