Jazz Articles about Lisipi

About Lisipi

Album Review

The group is called Trio Lisipi; the album is titled an (almost) eponymous Lisipi. The eye-catching album cover features a stylish and attractive young woman sitting at a piano wearing a pair of stiletto heels, bringing Brazil's Eliane Elias to mind. But the woman in the heels is Liliya Akhmetzyanova, a pianist with a Russian conservatory background who has taken up the art of jazz. Trio Lisipi makes its home in Rome, Italy, making jazz that is a ...

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Take Five with Trio Lisipi

by AAJ Staff
June 23, 2019

About Trio Lisipi Sometimes jazz happens to you as something least expected. Exactly as it happened to Liliya Akhmetzyanova, the pianist from the jazz trio Lisipi. She started playing piano at age of six and, as many decent Russian pianists, graduated from a conservatory 20 years later. Then years of happy sight reading and playing classics by memory got suddenly interrupted by Silvio Canargiu--a guitarist, bassist, singer, composer, producer and such a handsome man. Yes, love happened, they ...