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Mirages
Label: Criss Cross
Released: 2009
Track listing: One for Mike I; Mirages; Live Score; Levitin's Kingdom; Just One of Those Things; Tetragon; Iris; One for Mike II.
Ivan Farmakovsky: Raising the Bar
by Cyril Moshkow
Crisis or no crisis, the 2008-2009 jazz concert season in Russia was far from being eventless. New fruitful collaborations were unveiled, new record labels were launched, old festivals have convincingly confirmed that they were well alive and kicking, and many good Russian jazz albums have hit the stores. Those albums revealed a new trend, that of ...
Tanglewood Jazz Festival 2009, Lenox, MA
by R.J. DeLuke
Tanglewood Jazz FestivalLenox, MassachusettsSeptember 4-6, 2009 The annual Tanglewood Jazz Festival in western Massachusetts has become an intriguing mix of music over the years, its programming taking into account jazz masters, as well as young talent, and projects that are as new or at least a bit different; something that isn't experienced everywhere ...
Open-Air Jazz In And Around Moscow
by Cyril Moshkow
Moscow's summer is relatively brief: early June is normally the first really warm time during the year, and the final week of August normally the last; which means that most of the fifteen million people who live in and around the Russian capital try to take full advantage of those three short months. Those who can ...
Gary Smulyan: Low Man Aims High
by Edward Bride
A baritone saxophonist who plays like Bird? And harvests more than a half-dozen Grammy awards in the process? That seeming contradiction characterizes the great successes of Gary Smulyan, one of today's most in-demand jazz performers, educators, and recording artists. To be fair, Smulyan has his own voice, but he cites Charlie Parker ...
Daniela Schachter: Purple Butterfly
by Edward Blanco
A gifted vocalist who just happens to also play the piano quite well, Daniela Schachter conjures up comparisons to the great Diana Krall on Purple Butterfly, an offering of contemporary jazz vocals covered with a bit of honey and a taste of Italy. This Sicilian-born, New York-based artist possesses distinctive high-pitch voice, which she employs on ...
Alex Sipiagin: Mirages
by John Kelman
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 ...
Trumpeter Alex Sipiagin Interviewed at AAJ
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. Some jazz was played in the U.S.S.R. since before World War II. Even during the height of the Cold War, ...
Alex Sipiagin: Burning For Jazz
by R.J. DeLuke
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 ...
My Ever Changing Moods
Label: Geneon
Released: 2008
Track listing: I'm Gonna Love You Just A Little More Babe; Journey to the Light; Just Be Good To Me; Aldeia de Ogum; Vera
Cruz; Walking In Your Footsteps; My Ever Changing Moods; Remind Me; Mi Vida; Call Me; True Colors
