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Post-Soviet Jazz: Celebrating 100 Years Of Russian Jazz In 2022
One fine day in 1921, Russian dancer, poet and performer Valentin Parnakh was in jny: Paris, France when he first heard jazz music. Immediately beguiled, he decided to bring it back to his native Russia, and started planning the first-ever jazz concert performed by Russian artists. Traveling from Paris to jny: Moscow via jny: Berlin, where ...
About Pavel Skornyakov
Instrument: Saxophone, alto
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Pavel Skornyakov
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PAVEL "PASHA" SKORNYAKOV is a Russian jazz saxophonist living in Moscow, and a rising star on the international jazz scene. As a gifted composer and musician, Pavel is a virtuoso of the alto sax, soprano sax, tenor sax, and flute. He has already forged an impressive chain of successes: in addition to performing in cities across his native Russia, Skornyakov has performed in shows throughout Europe and Asia. In 2017, he toured South Korea along with famed Korean musicians and became an endorser of Kim’s Korea Saxophone. Most recently, Skornyakov’s debut album, Early Season, was released in June 2018 on the German jazz label, nagel heyer records
Russia Welcomes Sun Ra - November 19 With The Jazz Drama Program Presentation Of "Message From Saturn"
Sun Ra Heads To Russia! Euro-Asian Premiere November 19, 2016 “Saxophonist Knoel Scott told me Sun Ra came into rehearsal and said, 'I just got a message from Saturn. We are not playing enough blues!' I thought about this for ten years, then joined up with Clifford Carlson to write this story." ...
The Ganelin Trio: Creative Tensions
by Duncan Heining
Imagine a time, not so very long ago, when a foreign Jazz/Improvising Trio created such a stir in Britain that they made the TV news! Imagine the national newspapers queuing round the block for interviews. And imagine London's Bloomsbury Theatre filled with musicians, journalists and arts administrators--not to mention the odd, very odd, raincoated spook.
Slava Ganelin, Alexey Kruglov, Oleg Yudanov: Us
by Alberto Bazzurro
Con lo stesso titolo di uno dei più celebrati album di Peter Gabriel, torna un artista nel suo orticello altrettanto leggendario, quello Slava (al secolo Vyacheslav) Ganelin che a cavallo fra anni Settanta e Ottanta alla testa del ben noto Ganelin Trio fece alzare le orecchie a parecchi a proposito di quanto il nuovo jazz era ...
Slava Ganelin / Lenny Sendersky: Hotel Cinema
by Glenn Astarita
Back when electronics instruments entered the vanguard of jazz, rock and other genres, the old adage, man vs. machine became a proverbial response due to excessive gyrations and overly hectic interplay between conventional instrumentalists and synth performers. Thankfully, things settled down and a maturation process evolved over time. Fast forwarding to the modern era, well-travelled Russians, ...
Vitaly Golovnev: When In Moscow
by Mark Sullivan
Russian-born trumpeter Vitaly Golovnev lives in New York City now, but he maintains ties to his homeland. He recorded this album in Moscow in May, 2015 with his Russian group. Golovnev (who was a semi-finalist in the 2007 Thelonious Monk International Jazz Trumpet Competition) also plays flugelhorn here, and provided most of the compositions. The music ...
Intonema's Fifth Anniversary
by John Eyles
As it reaches the fifth anniversary of its first release, it seems a fitting time to reflect on how Intonema is progressing. Initially, the label attracted attention because it was based in St. Petersburg, on Russian soil, a novelty at the time. The early releases on the label featured Russian-based musicians, including the Intonema proprietors saxophonist ...
Gratkowski / Kruglov / Nabatov / Yudanov: Leo Records 35th Anniversary - Moscow
by Glenn Astarita
It would be suitable for UK-based Leo Records' 35th anniversary concert to be held at an arts venue in Moscow. It's the third anniversary concert thus far and reminds many of us avant jazz advocates that this record label has been the primary conduit between Russian's frequently cloistered, cutting edge artists and the West, hearkening back ...
Francois Carrier / Michel Lambert / Alexey Lapin: The Russian Concerts Volume 1
by John Eyles
Back in 2011, this trio released an excellent trilogy of albums which documented a December 2010 tour of Russia by Canadian alto saxophonist Francois Carrier and his long-time drummer Michel Lambert during which they played with Russian pianist Alexey Lapin in Moscow and St. Petersburg. Now, The Russian Concerts Volume 1 again documents the three together ...
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