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Vyacheslav Guyvoronsky: Pieces for String Trio and Trumpet
by Glenn Astarita
Longtime Leo Records recording artist, trumpeter Vyacheslav Guyvoronsky leads a string trio on this curiously interesting and immensely entertaining venture, where chamber music, jazz improvisation and European folk attain a synchronous coexistence. Here, the trumpeter divulges the precision of a classical soloist with unorthodox voicings, all enacted by a jazzy impetus. With a fluid attack on the front end, Guyvoronsky accents, underscores and solos atop the string section's intuitive interplay. The album features introspective and somber interludes to ...
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by Glenn Astarita
The cleverness of improvisation plays an integral part of this Russian trio's compositions that merely reference jazz standards. The artists reconfigure and loosely interpret while injecting their personal insights. The program consists of thoroughly imaginative compositional vehicles, equating to a rather novel and prismatic string of musical iterations, spanning a wide spectrum of aspects.
Don't Take The B" Train" is the trio's reference to Duke Ellington's Take The A" Train," and is a freewheeling jaunt, spiked with avant-garde ...
read moreVyacheslav Guyvoronsky: Caprichos
by Glenn Astarita
Vyacheslav Guyvoronsky is purportedly among the finest of the post-Soviet Russian progressive jazz trumpeters and as the story goes, he's paid the bills and augmented his artistry via his medical degree. On Caprichos he delves into a curiously interesting musical setting with a Russian strings section. Not quite Third Stream in a semi-literal sense, it's more about a rapidly moving sequence of classical, chamber, and jazz abstracts, enhanced by the pristine audio engineering processes that offer a dynamic soundstage.
read moreVyacheslav Guyvoronsky & Evelin Petrova: Chonyi Together
by Robert Spencer
The crystalline purity and brilliance of Vyacheslav Guyvoronsky's trumpet sound is an utter delight, and comes through gorgeously on this duo recording with accordionist/vocalist Evelin Petrova. Alone, as he is on the extended introduction to Still-life" at the beginning of this disc, he improvises searchingly, without obvious pyrotechnics or heat. He slowly weaves a spider web of melody, eventually joined by weird cries by Petrova, followed by her more melodious accordion. Together they have a strikingly original sound full of ...
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