Chris Pitsiokos

Chris Pitsiokos is an alto saxophonist, composer and improviser from New York, now based in Berlin. He came up in the DIY experimental jazz scene of Brooklyn, and his playing draws on bebop, free jazz and noise. He leads the CP Unit, a band that Downbeat described as a mix of harmolodic jazz and noise rock, runs his own label, Eleatic, and has made two solo saxophone albums for Relative Pitch. Pitsiokos grew up on Long Island, studied at Columbia and was a longtime DJ at the radio station WKCR.