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Konstantin Ionenko

Born: March 30, 1979

Konstantin Ionenko is a Ukrainian-based bassist & composer. He was born in Kharkiv, and got education at College of Music & University Of Arts (Conservatory). In 2003 moved to Kiev, where started playing with local jazz musicians in a variety of bands. At that time he travelled a lot, working in Europe & USA.

Few years later Konstantin started working at Kiev Institute of Music, teaching bass & improvisation. He was also actively engaged in running workshops and jazz clinics. Apart from the academic career, he remained one of the most in-demand bass players in Ukrainian music business, being a constant member of the best jazz projects, sideman to popular artists & tv-shows, engaged in lots of touring and recording sessions.

Deep Tone Project: Torero Hallucinogene

by Ian Patterson
February 27, 2025

The curiously titled “Torero Hallucinogene" (Hallucinogenic Bullfighter) is a haunting, brushes-steered ballad from Ukrainian outfit Deep Tone Project--the collaborative quartet of double bassist Konstantin Ionenko, tenor saxophonist Viktor Pavelko, guitarist Aleksandr Pavlov and drummer Pavel Galitsky. Two years on from its debut, Flow (Fancy Music, 2014), Deep Project's follow-up Onward found its home on Jordi Pujol's ...

A Brief Guide To Ukrainian Jazz: Part 1

by Ian Patterson
February 24, 2025

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 The history of jazz in Ukraine can be traced fairly precisely according to academic, literature teacher and jazz journalist Alexander Yudin. Writing in The History Of European Jazz: The Music, Musicians And Audience in Context (Equinox Publishing, 2018), Yudin credits Yuliy Meitus with ...

The Body Is Only Light

By Carlo Muscat

Label: ears&eyes Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Totoro; Monochrome Tales; Cleopatra; Holler; The Body Is Only Light; Conspiracy; Arrietty; Lisovyk; Everyone Looks Happy; Lyra's Sonnet

Deep Tone Project: Onward

by Mark Sullivan
May 5, 2017

Another fine collection of contemporary jazz from the Ukrainian collective band Deep Tone Project. The personnel is unchanged from their first album Flow (Fancy Music, 2014). But the compositional input is even more democratic. Previously split between guitarist Aleksandr Pavlov and bassist Konstantin Ionenko, this time a third of the tunes come from the pen of ...

Top 25 "Recommended" Album Reviews: 2016

by Michael Ricci
January 1, 2017

All About Jazz tracks how often an album review is recommended, and the reviews listed below represent our top 25 published in 2016. Local Color University of Northern Iowa Jazz Band One 2014-15 by Jack Bowers Published: February 9, 2016 Blues, Ballads, and Beyond: ...

Onward

By Deep Tone Project

Label: Fresh Sound New Talent
Released: 2016
Track listing: 01. Contemplation 5:26 02. Dubious Pleasure 6:43 03. Pacific Ocean 4:54 04. Slightly Abashed 6:46 05. Megalomania 7:25 06. Heritage 8:11 07. Torero Hallucinogene 6:55 08. Black Depth 8:40 09. Hope 7:40

Noema

By Konstantin Ionenko

Label: Fancy Music
Released: 2016
Track listing: Kaleidoscope; Imprinted Acerbity; Far Out; Glassy; Four Doors; Prelude; Noema; November.

Mark Sullivan's Best Releases of 2016

by Mark Sullivan
December 9, 2016

So many reviews this year, in so many genres, that I've split them into two categories--"Jazz" and “Latin, World & Experimental"--in response to the feeling that I was trying to compare apples to oranges. They're presented in more or less chronological order, and the guiding principle was whether I had a clear memory of the recording ...

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, ...