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Alex Maksymiw

Konstantin Ionenko Quartet: Noema

by Mark Sullivan
January 28, 2016

Ukrainian bassist/composer Konstantin Ionenko introduces a striking new quartet on Noema. His previous release Deep Immersion (Fancy Music, 2013) was a quintet with piano, trumpet and saxophone. Only Ionenko and drummer Pavel Galitsky remain from that group, joined by new members Dima Bondarev (flugelhorn) and Alex Maksymiw (guitar). There was precedent for working with a guitarist, ...

Without A Word

By Alex Maksymiw

Label: Challenge Records
Released: 2015
Track listing: Flatbush & Lincoln; Without A Word; Interlude / Fast; Hand Shifts; Interlude / Slow; the Charmer; Patient; Flatbush & Lincoln / Alt.

Alex Maksymiw: Without A Word

by Glenn Astarita
October 22, 2015

Toronto native, guitarist Alex Maksymiw has lent his admirable faculties to ensembles such as the Village Vanguard Orchestra and with reedman Dick Oatts among many other notables. Here, Maksymiw realigns with all-star saxophonist Marcus Strickland for a multifaceted quartet date, brimming with ethereal motifs and many works that merit repeated listens. Maksymiw is the ...