Jazz Articles about Alex Sipiagin

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Alex Sipiagin: Mirages

by John Kelman
April 15, 2009

With little muss or fuss, trumpeter Alex Sipiagin has been gradually building a first-call reputation. Since emigrating from Russia in the early '90s, he has played with everyone from the late Michael Brecker and James Moody to David Binney and the Mingus Big Band. But it's his association with Dave Holland that's garnered him the greatest name recognition. He's a charter member of the bassist's Big Band, he's gigged with Holland's as-yet-unrecorded Octet, and toured extensively with the Sextet responsible ...

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Alex Sipiagin: Burning For Jazz

by R.J. DeLuke
April 6, 2009

The 1980s in the Soviet Union was a time when the role and rule of the Communist Party were being questioned and unmasked by the policy of “glasnost"--less censorship and greater freedom of information--that was emerging. Before glasnost fully took hold, and before U.S. President Ronald Reagan famously told Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to “tear down this wall" and dismantle the Communist symbol that separated East and West Berlin, jazz music was still hard to come by.

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Alex Sipiagin: Out of the Circle

by Mark F. Turner
February 28, 2008

Out of the Circle by trumpeter/flugelhornist, Alex “Sasha" Sipiagin, provides modern jazz that is evenly vitalizing and cerebral. The recording's smooth style matches the lush sound of its leader's horns. But this is by no means tepid music, especially with some resourceful charts and stellar contributions from saxophonist Donny McCaslin, trombonist Robin Eubanks, guitarist Adam Rogers, bassist Scott Colley, and drummer Antonio Sanchez, among others. With a number of recordings under the Criss Cross label, Russian-born Sipiagin is ...

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Alex Sipiagin: Out of the Circle

by John Kelman
September 6, 2007

Over the course of seven years and six albums for Criss Cross, trumpeter Alex Sipiagin has been evolving as a player, writer and bandleader, with Prints (2007) his most fully realized effort to date. Still, the Dutch record label's insistence on short sessions--usually only a single day--imposes practical limitations on what its artists can accomplish on a larger scale. While Sipiagin continues to record for Criss Cross, the larger ensemble and more ambitious compositional scope of Out of the Circle--his ...

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Daniela Schächter: I colori del mare

by AAJ Italy Staff
December 13, 2006

Dall'Italia a Boston (alla Berklee School of Music) e ritorno sulla casa discografica del jazz italiano per eccellenza, la Splasc(H) Records. Questo in sintesi il percorso della pianista Daniela Schächter, che si è avvalsa per questo disco di musicisti americani prestigiosi che danno un ottimo contributo alle esecuzioni, e non poteva essere diversamente con artisti del calibro di Alex Sipiagin. La capacità di scrittura della Schächter le ha permesso di dar vita ad un album eclettico e senza cadute di ...

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Bill Bruford / Tim Garland: Earthworks Underground Orchestra

by Sean Patrick Fitzell
December 4, 2006

Bill Bruford forged his reputation as a relentless pioneer striving to advance the art of percussion. Using odd times and improvisation in rock or exploring with electronic drums, he sought to challenge both his self-expression and the drummer's role. Since 1986, his primary outlet as a composer and bandleader has been Earthworks. What began as an electro-acoustic quartet has become strictly acoustic, bringing him back to his early love: jazz. To celebrate this twenty-year anniversary, Bruford and ...

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Bill Bruford / Tim Garland: Earthworks Underground Orchestra

by John Kelman
January 26, 2006

Although jazz has left behind its America-centricity and become a more international language, a mysterious chasm still exists between the American and UK jazz scenes. For every artist like Kenny Wheeler who has achieved American recognition, a dozen others have not. But with Earthworks Underground Orchestra, drummer Bill Bruford and woodwind multi-instrumentalist Tim Garland narrow the gap, proving that swing is more than a defined rhythm--it's a feel, with an expanding definition.

Bruford's 1980s electro-acoustic Earthworks quartet began a gradual ...