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Dmitry Baevsky

Dmitry Baevsky was born in St-Petersburg, Russia in 1976. He started piano lessons at six and discovered his passion and seriousness for music as a teenager, when he picked up an alto saxophone. In 1991, he entered the Mussorgsky College of Music in St-Petersburg and studied with the brilliant Russian jazz saxophonist Gennady Goldstein. Throughout the nineties, Dmitry Baevsky appeared in many jazz venues and international festivals throughout Russia. In addition, he participated and was awarded prize places in several jazz and classical competitions. Upon his arrival in New York in 1996, he was accepted to the Jazz Department at the New School University on a full scholarship

Live at the Bird's Eye Jazz Club, Basel

Label: Albore Jazz
Released: 2020
Track listing: Conception; The Truth Tellers; Mr Kenyatta; Sophisticated Lady; Brooklyn; Everything I Love; Bittersweet.

The New York - Paris Reunion Quintet: Live at the Bird's Eye Jazz Club, Basel

By DAVID A. ORTHMANN

Many of us dearly miss those life-affirming nights in jazz clubs when a band can do no wrong, blowing as if there's no tomorrow, and temporarily washing away the workaday realities of existence. The New York-Paris Reunion Quintet's Live at the Bird's Eye Jazz Club, Basel takes some of the yearning and emptiness out of waiting ...

We Two

By DMITRY BAEVSKY

Label: Jazz & People
Released: 2018
Track listing: Swingin' the Samba; Something for Sonny; Inception; Le Suerier Velours; All Through the Night; Don't Let the Sun Catch You Cryin'; Fools Rush In; The Serpent's Tooth; Quasimodo; You'd Be So Easy To Love.

Dmitry Baevsky / Jeb Patton: We Two

By DAVID A. ORTHMANN

Alto saxophonist Dmitry Baevsky and pianist Jeb Patton constitute a crackerjack, precision jazz instrument, stretching and bending the fundamentals of bebop into full-blown statements that render the absence of a bassist and drummer superfluous. The individual heroics that one expects of bop are in evidence, but it's the ways in which the duo maneuvers as a ...

Mauricio de Souza: Trajetórias

By CHRIS M. SLAWECKI

The quiet masterpiece Trajetórias captures drummer, composer, arranger and bandleader Maurício de Souza leading his jazz ensemble Bossa Brazil in a beautiful live performance through Brazilian pop and jazz classics from the pens of such legends as Antonio Carlos Jobim, Hermeto Pascoal, Milton Nascimento and Pat Metheny. Producer de Souza envelops each live performance ...

Warm Climates, Cool Sounds: Southern Hemispheric Survey

By CHRIS M. SLAWECKI

Afro-Cuban All Stars Absolutely Live II DM Ahora! Productions 2017 You can find many groups who call themselves “Afro-Cuban All Stars." But few have the pedigree of this ensemble led by vocalist Juan de Marcos, co-architect of the legendary Cuban roots Buena Vista Social Club sessions (1997, Nonesuch/Elektra) ...

The Day After

By DMITRY BAEVSKY

Label: Jazz Family
Released: 2017
Track listing: Would You?; Rollin'; Chant; Minor Delay; Hotel Baudin; The Wise Ones; The Day After; Four Seven Nine One; Delilah; I've Told Every Little Star.

Bruce Harris: Beginnings

By DAVID A. ORTHMANN

Beginnings sounds as if it's guided by an old hand instead of someone relatively new to the demanding art of leading a band. The debut recording of trumpeter Bruce Harris captures a coherent, homogeneous group sound, while utilizing several different combinations of instruments. Harris ties together material ranging from Harold Arlen, to Bud Powell, to Prince, ...

Bruce Harris: Beginnings

By DAN BILAWSKY

Many a debut album receives a largely positive critique before being cut down to size with a qualifier. It's simply a jazz journalist's nature to paint newcomers as nascent talent in need of seasoning, players showing signs of potential, or artists taking a good first step with a first record. But sometimes a debut album is ...