Jazz Articles about Vyacheslav Guyvoronsky

Vyacheslav Guyvoronsky: Pieces for String Trio and Trumpet

by Glenn Astarita
February 13, 2011

Longtime Leo Records recording artist, trumpeter Vyacheslav Guyvoronsky leads a string trio on this curiously interesting and immensely entertaining venture, where chamber music, jazz improvisation and European folk attain a synchronous coexistence. Here, the trumpeter divulges the precision of a classical soloist with unorthodox voicings, all enacted by a jazzy impetus. With a fluid attack on the front end, Guyvoronsky accents, underscores and solos atop the string section's intuitive interplay. The album features introspective and somber interludes to ...

Vyacheslav Guyvoronsky - Andrei Kondakov - Vladimir Volkov: In Search of a Standard

by AAJ Italy Staff
January 26, 2010

Improvvisare su standard non è certo facile, anche se il trombettista, improvvisatore e compositore russo Vyacheslav Guyvoronsky non è nuovo all'operazione [pensiamo alle sue recenti Interventions into Bach and Mozart] ed è anche bravo nel farlo! Per il nuovo progetto In Search of a Standard Guyvoronsky (tromba, voce) ha coinvolto Andrei Kondakov (piano, percussioni) e Vladimir Volkov (contrabbasso), cimentandosi in alcuni noti standard jazz e, abbandonando così la classica, approda in linea diretta ai guizzi di Duke Ellington e Miles ...

Vyacheslav Guyvoronsky: Interventions into Bach & Mozart

by AAJ Italy Staff
November 9, 2009

Il multistrumentista e compositore russo Vyacheslav Guyvoronsky - attivo nel suo paese già quando il jazz era poco meno che bandito dal regime - presenta in questo CD le tre parti di un ambito progetto al quale pensa e lavora da lungo tempo: si tratta di una complessa e sofisticata rilettura di alcune pagine di Johann Sebastian Bach e di Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, che recupera chiare suggestioni dei due grandi compositori, aggiungendovi pagine nuove e ispirazioni provenienti dalla musica contemporanea ...

Vyacheslav Guyvoronsky / Andrei Kondakov / Vladimir Volkov: In Search Of A Standard

by Glenn Astarita
October 23, 2009

The cleverness of improvisation plays an integral part of this Russian trio's compositions that merely reference jazz standards. The artists reconfigure and loosely interpret while injecting their personal insights. The program consists of thoroughly imaginative compositional vehicles, equating to a rather novel and prismatic string of musical iterations, spanning a wide spectrum of aspects.

“Don't Take The “B" Train" is the trio's reference to Duke Ellington's “Take The “A" Train," and is a freewheeling jaunt, spiked with avant-garde ...

Vyacheslav Guyvoronsky: Caprichos

by Glenn Astarita
October 30, 2008

Vyacheslav Guyvoronsky is purportedly among the finest of the post-Soviet Russian progressive jazz trumpeters and as the story goes, he's paid the bills and augmented his artistry via his medical degree. On Caprichos he delves into a curiously interesting musical setting with a Russian strings section. Not quite Third Stream in a semi-literal sense, it's more about a rapidly moving sequence of classical, chamber, and jazz abstracts, enhanced by the pristine audio engineering processes that offer a dynamic soundstage.

Vyacheslav Guyvoronsky & Evelin Petrova: Chonyi Together

by Robert Spencer
June 1, 1999

The crystalline purity and brilliance of Vyacheslav Guyvoronsky's trumpet sound is an utter delight, and comes through gorgeously on this duo recording with accordionist/vocalist Evelin Petrova. Alone, as he is on the extended introduction to “Still-life" at the beginning of this disc, he improvises searchingly, without obvious pyrotechnics or heat. He slowly weaves a spider web of melody, eventually joined by weird cries by Petrova, followed by her more melodious accordion. Together they have a strikingly original sound full of ...