Results for "Ukrainian Jazz"

Yuriy Seredin

Alina Zalozna

Born: October 15, 1996

Alina Zalozna is a jazz vocalist, composer and a new face of the Ukrainian jazz scene, crafting a front edge blend of improvised jazz and folk in a warm and organic tone. She was the winner of the International Baku jazz competition in 2019 and received a special recognition as a soloist by the jury of Blue Note Poznan jazz competition in 2021.

In 2022 she released her debut album “Ukrainian Melodies” as a response on the full scale Russian-Ukrainian war, featuring the prominent Ukrainian jazz musicians Borys Mohylevskyi, Oleksandr Malyshev, Denys Dontsov, Valentyn Korniienko, Pavlo Halytskyi. The album consists of 10 Ukrainian folk songs presented in Alina’s original jazz arrangements that she had been working on for the past 5 years. Using a common jazz language, she naturally combined authentic melodies with contemporary jazz rhythms and harmonies. The project received positive feedback and was performed live in Ukraine and Malaga, Spain, where she performed charity concerts featuring Ukrainian bassist and composer Illya Alabuzhev and Spanish saxophonist Enrique Oliver in support of Armed Forces of Ukraine.

Jazz Riffs Amidst the Rubble: How Ukraine's Artists Keep Jazz Alive in Wartime

by Cheptoo Kositany
April 26, 2025

In bomb shelters, makeshift clubs, and even occasionally on the front lines, Ukrainian jazz artists are keeping the flame of the music alive. The story of jazz in Ukraine is long and winding, stretching back to the Soviet era. In the 1920s and '30s, jazz seeped into the Soviet Union, brought by records, radio ...

A Brief Guide To Ukrainian Jazz: Part 1

by Ian Patterson
February 24, 2025

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 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 ...

Ukrainian Jazz: Freedom Rings

March 9, 2022

If your heart aches watching what is going on in Ukraine in real time, spend time today listening to Ukrainian jazz to understand what freedom and liberty means to the people of that country. And if you're reading this in Ukraine, please know that JazzWax readers worldwide are thinking of you. Here's a 2018 tribute to ...