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Boris Kozlov

Born: December 5, 1967

Two-time Grammy Award winning acoustic and electric bassist, composer and arranger, Boris Kozlov has been on New York and international jazz scene for the past 20 years. Currently serving as a Bassist, Arranger and Musical Director for Mingus Big Band, Mingus Dynasty and The Orchestra, as well as leading his own projects, he has also been a first-call bassist for such important jazz acts as Michael Brecker, John Blake, Ray Barretto's New World Spirit, Lew Tabackin, David Kikoski, Alex Sipiagin, Jean-Michel Pilc and many others.

Boris Kozlov was born in Moscow ,USSR on December 5, 1967 . Having a chance to go to Children's Music School to study piano for 7 years, he fell in love with the bass and won Gnesin Music Academy competition to enter college at the age of 15 on electric bass guitar. While being influenced by rock and classical music, he took interest in jazz at 17 and went on to study acoustic bass with a notable bassist Anatoly Sobolev. Upon graduation in 1987 with Diploma of Honor at the age of 19, he served mandatory 2 years in the Soviet Army, where he had to play tuba and other brass instruments besides basses in the military band.

Drop Me Off

By Reinhardt Winkler

Label: Challenge Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Little Rio (Un Poco Rio); Billy Boy; This Can´t Be Love; Let the Drums Speak III; When It´s Sleep Time Down South; Doctor Jazz; Bye Bye Blues; Someday Soon Sweet Samba; Maraba Blue; Good Advice; It´s So Hard Living Without You.

Swing & Soul

Label: Posi-Tone Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: ESP; Chili Peppers; Each Time I Think Of You; You Know I Care; Idle Moments; Sweet Honey Bee; Gaslight; Ready Rudy; Is That So?; Big Bertha.

On Different Paths

By Marlon Simon

Label: Truth Revolution Records
Released: 2024

Attentive Listening

By Willie Morris

Label: Posi-Tone Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Water Fountain Of Youth; Terminal Lucidity; The Imitation Game; To Worlds Unknown; Delusion Of Understanding; Leaving Paradise; Moving Right Along; La Mesha; Et Tu, Caribou?; Daly Minor Blues.

Meet Brian Lynch

by C. Andrew Hovan
March 14, 2024

This article was first published at All About Jazz in March 2000.Though many of his peers have received far more attention from the public and press, the fact is that Brian Lynch is one of the most experienced and talented jazz trumpeters of his generation. Growing up in the Milwaukee area, Lynch took advantage ...

Willie Morris: Attentive Listening

by David A. Orthmann
March 9, 2024

Attentive Listening, Willie Morris 's second Posi-Tone release in as many years, documents the continuing evolution of a jazz master in the making. Like last year's Conversation Starter, the tenor saxophonist/composer thrives in the stimulating company of alto saxophonist/alto flutist Patrick Cornelius and pianist Jon Davis. Bassist Boris Kozlov and drummer Rudy Royston round out a ...

Blue Moods: Swing & Soul

by David A. Orthmann
February 3, 2024

Swing & Soul is the second in a series of recordings by Blue Moods, one of the projects initiated by Posi-Tone Records producer Marc Free to attract new listeners to jazz. The release showcases a collection of compositions by pianist Duke Pearson, an underrecognized figure who worked for Blue Note as an A&R man, arranger, and ...

Finding The Fire Within With Rich Halley And More

by Bob Osborne
January 18, 2024

On this show we feature recent and new releases from Rich Halley, Pat Thomas's Ism, Angel Bat Dawid, John Herberman, Pernille Bévort 3, Joe Santa Maria, Rajna Swaminathan, Rebecca Nash, Ancient Infinity Orchestra, Isaiah Collier, Christoph Gallio Dominic Lash & Mark Sanders, and Blue Moods featuring Art Hirahara, Diego Rivera, Boris Kozlov and Vinnie Sperrazza.

Love & Peace

By Diego Rivera

Label: Posi-Tone Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Lovely; Ganas; Gracias A La Vida; Soul Purpose; Anticipation; Alabama; Composure; Simon; La Malinche; Battle Fatigue; Peace.