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Article: In Pictures

Buster Willams' Quartet at the Perry Pavilion

Read "Buster Willams' Quartet at the Perry Pavilion" reviewed by Mark Robbins


Bassist Buster Williams decided after 30 years as a side man to the greats to step up and present his own music and his own musical ideas. In 1990 he formed Something More and has traveled the world and the United States numerous times including the first international jazz festival in jny:Moscow. The Virginia Arts Festival ...

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Post-Soviet Jazz: Celebrating 100 Years Of Russian Jazz In 2022

Post-Soviet Jazz: Celebrating 100 Years Of Russian Jazz In 2022

One fine day in 1921, Russian dancer, poet and performer Valentin Parnakh was in jny: Paris, France when he first heard jazz music. Immediately beguiled, he decided to bring it back to his native Russia, and started planning the first-ever jazz concert performed by Russian artists. Traveling from Paris to jny: Moscow via jny: Berlin, where ...

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Article: Year in Review

2021: The Year in Jazz

Read "2021: The Year in Jazz" reviewed by Ken Franckling


The jazz world continued grappling and adjusting in year two of the COVID-19 pandemic. International Jazz Day again went virtual for the most part. Singer Tony Bennett put the final stamp on his touring--and likely recording--career after his Alzheimer's disclosure. Trumpeter Irvin Mayfield was headed to federal prison. The National Endowment for the Arts welcomed four ...

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Pi

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"Pi”, the band with a transcendent constant used for its name, is a project about the musical and mathematical structure of "cosmos" that arises within each member of the band and is formed into fusion of various musical characters in the search for harmony of spheres, harmony of the world. Quite ironically the musicians call themselves as “musical community number Pi", leaving the determination open and not strictly fixed. Their music is artfully and deliberately saturated with allegories and metaphors. Original pieces and arrangements, created with respect to the traditions of jazz and classics, use all possible modern means of expression

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Sergey Dolzhenkov Quintet

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Sergey Dolzhenkov Quintet is a vivid evidence of the fact that there are no rigid stylistic boundaries in contemporary music for a long time. Trombonist Sergey Dolzhenkov, who grew up on the works of The Prodigy and Brecker Brothers, confidently breaks traditional stereotypes of perception, using unusual techniques of sound production, bringing musical structures to traditional jazz-rock fusion that are characteristic of other styles such as hip-hop and drum&bass. Any listener, even if in a jazz club for the first time, will be impressed by the power of energy, rich sound and dedication of the musicians of the Sergey Dolzhenkov Quintet

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Masala Quartet

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Masala Quartet is a Moscow (Russia) based collective playing jazz, funk, and contemporary improvisational material. Although their music is greatly influenced by the heritage of jazz, it obviously carries the participant's unique creativeness in it. With their original compositions, Masala Quartet is a laureate of the contests "Usadba Jazz Sochi" (2019, Sochi, Russia), New/Open Showcase Festival (2020, Yekaterinburg, Russia), finalist of the 13th Bucharest International Jazz Competition (2019, Bucharest, Romania), winner of the "Piano in jazz" competition in the ensemble and composition nominations (2017 – 2018, Moscow, Russia). Two EPs were released in 2016 and 2018, then the first LP “Stories from Masala” was released in 2020 by the renown FancyMusic label. Since 2020, the collective has two different original programs with different lineups (!)

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Sakhra

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Modern improvisational music project Sakhra was created in 2014 by Evgeny Abramov - a composer, pianist and arranger, who has composed music for cinema and theatre and worked with such celebrities as Batyrkhan Shukenov, Alexandr Marshal, Angelika Varum, Zhanna Aguzarova, Alexey Hvorostyan, GURUDE and such music bands as Nepara, Reflex, Unisex and VIA Gra. Originally a New Age music project turned to a wider variety of styles as Evgeny Abramov invited new members - Pavel Prokimov (contrabass), Petr Talalay (drums) and multi-instrumentalist Anton Kotikov. Currently, Sakhra project is not only a permanent resident of Moscow jazz clubs such as Esse, Soyuz Kompozitorov and Jam Club, but also a regular participant of international festivals such as “World of Siberia”, “Around the World”, “Trimurti”, “Ural Music Night”. Two albums of different styles were released in 2020

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Svetlana Zhavoronkova

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A Moscow based singer and song-writer. For the past 5 years she participated in singing contests on TV, performed at the best jazz festivals in Russia and became the resident at the famous Kozlov Club in the Russian capital. Her songs are rotated on several Russian radio stations. Her voice combines the energy of Tina Turner and the lyrical pensiveness of Diana Kroll, the intonations of Aretha Franklin and the tragic hoarseness of Janis Joplin. Svetlana performs her own compositions (mainly with her own project Secret Atelier), jazz standards and world hits of different eras, which take on new meanings in her reading

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Amber Sept

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AMBERT SEPT is a conceptual project of the Russian jazz scene, a dynamic and bright collective led by the drummer Ignat Kravtsov. The band's main focus is a perpetual search - of the stories, ideas, sound, new colours for the emotional self-expression. Thus its name is not exactly about the month and time (A.S. first gig was performed in September), but rather about the harvesting, the moment to summarize one's musical discoveries and investigations and one's experience of life. It's about September as the real gold of summer, amber color leaves that fall from trees, warming the earth from the coming winter

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Alexey Kozlov

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Alexey Kozlov (Russian: Алексей Козлов) is a Russian saxophonist, bandleader, composer and jazz propagandist. He was part of the first group of prominent Soviet-era Russian jazz musicians which emerged during the 1960s. His personality, as of typical representative of "cultural underground" at Stalin-Brezhnev times, is described in chapter seven of Hedrick Smith's well-known book "The Russians". Frederick Starr speaks about Alexey Kozlov in his book "Red and Hot". His name is encounted in "The International Who's Who"( Europe Publications Ltd., London), in a number of European Jazz lexicons (Denmark, Poland, Czechoslovakia), in Soviet Musical Encyclopaedia and in Big Soviet Encyclopaedia (v.8, article "Jazz"). In early 70s, Kozlov has created "Arsenal" band, which became one of the most popular jazz rock groups in the Soviet Union


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