Jazz Duo Performance at Archilochos Hall Our island is getting ever more culturally savvy, but it comes in waves. Jazz saxophonist Charlie Peterson and pianist Paul Astin endeavored to increase our musical pleasure with a fine jazz concert. Both musicians are from Los Angeles. Paul is presently living in Paros, where he is writing about the thematic connections between rembetika and blues. Charlie is a welcome visitor, sax in tow. The Archilochos Hall was full of lucky people. Since Paul and Charlie are only recent bandmates, they stuck to standards. That’s O.K. with me: standards remain durable because they are rewarding to play; they have pleasant melodies and logical harmonic structure. The duo commenced with Kenny Dorham’s bossa nova “Blue Bossa,” and then went on to “Autumn Leaves.” Paul, who speaks Greek, then introduced a beautiful tune by the great Syrian rebetis Markos Vamvakaris. Before the evening was over ...