Valentin Korniyenko

George Grydkovets: Rise

by Mark Sullivan
September 8, 2022

Ukrainian guitarist & composer George Grydkovets makes his debut here, in a trio accompanied by upright bassist Valentin Kornivenko and drummer Pavel Galitsky (trumpeter Dennis Adu plays on three tracks). Grydkovets currently resides in New York, where he studies at the New School's School of Jazz and Contemporary Music. He recorded this album near his hometown of Kyiv, Ukraine, with some of the leading Ukrainian jazz musicians he had been working with. Opening the album with the ballad “First Rays ...