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Moscow Gospel Team

Active since: 2001

Soul & Joy: Musical project - gospel, funk, hip-hop. Moscow Gospel Team is the most popular gospel group in Russia. 10 years ago different singers from different schools and genres gathered together to create a band to sing gospel music, music full of energy, natural emotions and a positive atmosphere. This genre was not very popular in Russia. Since then, Moscow Gospel Team has grown into a large, friendly family that continues to increase the number of fans with its Sunny music. Bright unique voices and sincere moods! MGTeam has collaborated with many famous musicians from Russia (Basta, Leonid Agutin, Alexey Chumakov, L'one, Soso Pavliashvili, Egor Creed, DJ Smash)

Moscow Ragtime Band

Active since: 1996

Moscow Ragtime Band is the highest caliber example of a traditional jazz ensemble specializing in that one and only, hot and energetic music born in New Orleans at the dawn of the 20th century. The band, which originated in the capital of Russia, is dedicated to the music that was so perfectly described on the very first jazz recording as “a sufficient power and penetration to inject new life into a mummy, and keep ordinary human dancers on their feet till breakfast time.” The Moscow Ragtime Band not only plays the sounds and rhythms which were the world’s craze in the “roaring twenties”, they live the music that continues to make people happy for over 100 years

Greg Abate: “Be-Bop-Er” Takes His Music To The World

by Rob Mariani
June 6, 2021

This article was published posthumously and on behalf of All About Jazz's long-time friend and contributor, Rob Mariani. “Bebop is one of the more complicated forms of jazz music," says Greg Abate, one of New England's most well-known alto sax players. He's been keeping this “art form" alive and thriving for years.

American Frederick Thomas: 'The Black Russian' Who Connected Jazz To The Margins Of Asia

by Arthur R George
September 1, 2020

The child of former slaves, Frederick Bruce Thomas' New York Times obituary called him “the sultan of jazz," for the jazz palace he founded in Constantinople (now Istanbul) after World War I, a jazz borderland beyond even the music's early Paris outpost. He was hosting bands in Constantinople in 1921 even before Louis Armstrong joined King ...

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Born: February 24, 1979

Igor Butman and Moscow Jazz Orchestra

Moscow Jazz Orchestra rendered by Downbeat as “an outfit of virtuosos” is one of the world's hottest jazz orchestras and features 17 splendid jazz musicians. Essentially it is Igor Butman Orchestra, founded in 1999 by the world famous saxophone player Igor Butman. Since then his Big Band has frequently toured Russia, Europe, and the USA, appearing at many of the world's most prestigious jazz venues, including Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, "Birdland" and others. In 2012 Igor Butman Orchestra became The Moscow state jazz orchestra conducted by Igor Butman. Downbeat magazine in its recent review of the Umbria Jazz Festival compared the Orchestra to the three finest jazz orchestras of all time: “The Igor Butman Big Band..

Igor Butman Quintet

Igor Butman also leads the Igor Butman Quartet, unity of five Russia’s topmost jazz soloists. Working together since 1999, the band has evolved into Russia’s best touring hardcore jazz unit. The rhythm section of the quartet consists of pianist Nick Levinovsky, guitarist Evgeny Pobozhiy, bass player Sergey Korchagin and drummer Eduard Zizak. The creator of Allegro band, legendary pianist and composer Nick Levinovsky has played with Igor Butman since 1983, when the saxophonist joined Allegro. Levinovsky moved to New York in 1990, and Butman moved back to Moscow in 1995, but this fact doesn’t prevent the musicians from successful collaboration lasting for nearly 30 years! At the time when Eduard Zizak joined Igor, he was already an experienced and reliable player who has worked for one of the Russia’s most popular big bands, the MKS Big Band led by Anatoly Kroll

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