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Gregory Golub

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Gregory Golub is Israeli composer, jazz pianist and songwriter, born in the USSR. Gregory is a self-taught pianist from the age of 12. He received a formal musical education in Russia and Ukraine, participated in a Jazz Festival in Russia and received an excellence prize for the best original jazz compositions. Gregory lives in Israel since 1990, where he has written and composed numerous multi-genre musical compositions, songs and philosophic and poetic texts. In 2004 his album “Idioms” was released comprising original instrumental jazz compositions, including piano and vocal jazz improvisations
Contemporary Classics
Label: Blue Birdland Records
Released: 2001
Track listing: In the Mood; Things Ain't What They Used to Be; Mack the Knife; Who Can I Turn To?; Begin the Beguine; In a Mellow Tone; Stardust; Which Craft; Alright, Okay, You win; Fly Me to the Moon; Shiny Stockings; April in Paris; Opus One; String of Pearls; Sing Sing Sing; Take the "A" Train
Bill O'Connell's Chicago Skyliners Big Band: Contemporary Classics

by Dave Nathan
Looking at the song list of Bill O'Connell's fine Chicago Skyliners Big Band latest album, one gets a sinking feeling that the band had regressed to regurgitating big band tunes and arrangements of yore, especially given the album subtitle, Big Band's Greatest Hits. But this concerns goes away when the CD is put into the player. ...