Jazz Articles

Slava Ganelin / Vladimir Volkov: Ne Slyshno

by Eyal Hareuveni
July 13, 2007

Ne Slyshno is a spontaneous live studio recording from September 2005 that brings together two bold thinking improvisers who surpass any definition of genre or style: Israeli (of Russian descent) composer/pianist Slave Ganelin and Russian double bassist Vladimir Volkov. Ganelin needs no introduction as one of the pioneers of the free improvised scene that emerged from former Soviet Russia. Volkov has been playing with modern ensembles such as the Collegium Europe and The Moscow Composers Orchestra, collaborated with like-minded musicians ...

Slava Ganelin / Ned Rothenberg: Falling Into Place

by AAJ Staff
October 13, 2006

The Ganelin Trio--probably the most recognized group of the Russian jazz scene during the last decade of the USSR--was officially disbanded at the end of the '80s. Both saxophonist Vladimir Chekasin and percussionist Vladimir Tarasov remained in now-independent Lithuania, keeping themselves busy in different projects mostly in Europe, while pianist Vyacheslav (Slava) Ganelin moved to Israel, where he works as a composer, often doing solo concerts and occasionally performing and recording in and out of the country with his old ...

Slava Ganelin and Ned Rothenberg: Falling Into Place: Live in Jaffa

by Eyal Hareuveni
April 28, 2006

New York-based reed master Ned Rothenberg managed to perform twice during his last family trip to Israel two years ago, and in both instances he collaborated for the first time with Israeli musicians. Two duets from Rothenberg concert in Jerusalem with free-improv bassist JC Jones were documented on Jones' second release (Duos II, Kadima Collective, 2005), and now this collaboration with iconoclastic composer Slava Ganelin, Falling into Place, recorded live in concert in Jaffa, has been finally released.

Rothenberg, like ...