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THE RUSSIAN JAZZ MAGAZINE ON THE WEB: PAST HEADLINES
Since early 2010, the Russian jazz magazine on the Web
changed its outlook. In 1998-2009, we used to publish the
weekly or bi-weekly "issues," or "editions," formed much like
traditional paper magazines, only without paper. Wait a minute,
we said to ourselves in late 2009, it's been three years since
we already did have a paper magazine as well! So, instead of
running two magazines (one on the paper 7 times a year, another
on the Web some 30 times a year,) we switched to a new blog-like,
read-while-we-write layout -
Russian Jazz Magazine
2.0.
It's still in Russian, understandably, as it's targeted on
Russian jazz community, and Russians don't care much about
reading in foreign languages. They like their jazz discussed in
their mother tongue, in very many well-arranged words, just like
Tolstoyevsky did (or was it Dostoy?) That's what the
Russian Jazz Magazine
2.0. is all about. You can even read it - using, for
example, the Google
Translate tool. Read
it, comment it, and even
subscribe to it!
Still, we keep the English digests of many our pre-2010 "issues"
in our archives:
#20-2009
(437) - December 23, 2009
Jazz.Ru celebrates its 12th birthday (pictured: drummer Oleg
Butman during the celebration concert on the stage of Moscow
House of Journalists). Pavel Korbout tells the story of the
15th Jazz Voices Festival in Moscow. Russian-Norwegian
jazz-and-spoken-word project, "Knut Hamsun Returns To Russia".
Saxophonist Alexei Kruglov presented in Moscow his
multidisciplinary project, Ornettecolemaniade. Erykah Badu in
Moscow's rich suburb Barvikha: nouveau rich glamour. In
Memoriam: St.Petersburg leading mainstream jazz drummer,
Vladimir Tunik (1960-2009). Jazz Province Festival travels
Central Russia: the story as told by one of the participating
musicians. Tom Harrell to perform in Moscow, Jerusalem's 6th
Jazz Globus Festival. New Albums: trupmeter Vitaly Golovniov;
THe Second Approach Trio... and more!
# 6 (423) -
April 24, 2009
5th Le Jazz, French Jazz festival in Moscow: concert reviews
Pianist Ivan Farmakovsky unveils his Russian-American CD
project, Next To The Shadow, live in Moscow with Eddie Henderson
and others (pictured)
Muscovite singer Sergey Starostin, the Russian
traditional singing expert, and the Volkovtrio, St.Petersburg's
hottest jam band, release their new collaboration album
Alexander Oseichuk, the tycoon of Russian jazz education,
celebrates the 20the anniversary of his Green Wave band at the
Russian Academy of Music concert hall
American jazz vocalist Nicole Henry interviewed after her
Siberian tour
"Icons Among Us" documentary series premiere in the U.S.: after
years of Ken Burns Jazz biased and unjust views forming the
public point of view on jazz, the genre's present tense strikes
back
# 5 (422) -
April 5, 2009
Al Foster Quartet in Moscow, as seen by Gulnara Khamatova (pictured)
Piano in Jazz competition in Moscow: the finals
MuzEnergo festival expands from Dubna (Moscow Region) to the
Russian capital... and further!
Human phonograph speaks up: Glenn Miller Orchestra Europe in
Siberia (finally)
Sax man Lew Tabackin to perform in Moscow with Yakov Okun's
Moscow City Trio
Duke Exhibition: Duke Ellington's 110th birthday celebrated in
Moscow by an exhibition of rare photographs made during Duke's
U.S.S.R tour in 1971 by the late photographer Felix Solovyov
In Memoriam: Bud Shank(1926-2009).
#421(4-2009) March 21, 2009
Producer George Avakian's 90th birthday
celebrated in New York; Jazz Over Volga River Festival, held
since 1979 in the Russian city of Yaroslavl, reviewed; pianist
Ivan Farmakovsky announces the CD
release party for his album, "Next To The Shadow" (pictured) at the Moscow
House of Music; Russian jazz education tycoon, saxophonist
Alexander Oseichuk, celebrates the 20th anniversary of his Green
Wave Band at the Russian Academy of Music Concert Hall; Newport
Jazz Festival returns to its rooths, being retrieved back by its
founder George Wein; LA famed jazz spot Jazz Bakery to change
address (hopefully); Herbie Hancock to head the LA Philharmonic
Jazz program, and other stories
#420 (3-2009) March
5, 2009
Composer, bassist and producer Alex Rostotsky
presented in Moscow's newest jazz club, V&J, his latest CD,
"Promenade with Mussorgsky" (pictured); new
concert venue, the Yauza theatre, opens its doors in Moscow with
a solo concert by jazz singer Karina Kozhevnikova; Chicago-based
pianist Ryan Cohan interviewed in the middle of Siberia;
Siberian jazz musicians perform at a Miami, Fl.-based jazz
festival; Dutch sax sweetie Candy Dulfer to perform in Moscow;
sax man Oleg Kireyev to present his Mainstream Quartet at the
Moscow House of Music; the Jazz Piano Competition for young
pianists in Moscow; Scotch trumpet player and jazz historian Ian
Carr dies, and other stories.
#416(18-2008)
Bandleader, educator and pianist Anatoly Kroll observes the
members of his We Are Jazzmen ensemble play at the Jazz.Ru 11th
Birthday Celebration in Moscow on December 12, 2008
Jazz.Ru releases its #8/9, 2008 issue and opens the online
access to its first eight issues (1 to 8/9, 2007)
Jazz.Ru celebrates its 11th birthday at the Moscow's Central
House of Journalists with a two-day festival
City Jazz Festival in Moscow featured the Bad Plus and Eric
Truffaz
14th Jazz Voices: jazz vocal festival produced by Moscow Jazz
Art Club's Alexander Eidelman showcases three Russian and one
American vocal acts
Triumph of Jazz 2009: complete line-up of Moscow's most
prestigious jazz festival (to be held on February 7) announced
Jazz in the Moscow Orchestral Assemblies program: Zinaida
Kartasheva reviews the jazz side of Moscow's famed music
education event
#415 (17-2008)
Tatiana Komova of the Second Approach
Pictured: the Second Approach, Moscow-based jazz/ethno/modern
classical crossover trio, celebrate their 10th anniversary at
the Moscow Jewish Center
Jazz Travels: the Jazz Province, Russia's traveling jazz
extravaganza, reviewed in Southern Russian city of Voronezh
Interviews: pianist Bobo Stenson, trumpet/saxophone player Joe
McPhee
Eurasia Jazz Festival reviewed: jazz on the border of European
and Asian part of Russia
Singer Anna Buturlina calls for future participants of First
Moscow jazz vocalists competition...
...and other articles
#413(15-2008)
Jazz.Ru
Magazine: release due Oct. 06. Alex Rostotsky (on the photo)
presented his clarinet/piano/e-bass trio with his blend of
classical/jazz crossover at the Moscow Conservatory. Other
concert reviews: Sax man Marshall Keys in Moscow; Austria's
Löschel Trio at the Jewish Cultural Center; 7th Ethno Jazz
Festival in Moldova; Japanese pianist Imada Masaru performs in
Tashkent, Uzbekistan. Carnival of Jazz invites jazz fans to the
ancient Sergiev Posad near Moscow. American singer Grace Garland
will perform in Novosibirsk, Moscow and St.Petersburg. Moscow's
forthcoming gigs: saxophonist Abraham Burton, singer Gregory
Porter, Japanese classical/jazz crossover Yasuaki Shimizu &
Saxophonnets. Swedish improv guitar wiz, David Stakenas, to
perform in St.Petersburg. New York live reviews: James Blood
Ulmer at the Jazz Standard. In Memoriam: Dick Sudhalter
(1938-2008).
#412 (14-2008)
Featured:
Varna Jazz Summer -- festival review from Bulgaria by Milen
Panayotov .Ken Vandermark's Free Fall in Moscow: concert
reviewed by Sergey Bondarkov. Guitarist Alexey Kuznetsov
celebrated his "50 Years In Jazz" at the House of Music (on
the photo). Young musicians from Ukraine: Magnifika Group.
Live & Upcoming in Moscow: George Gruntz Concert Jazz Band,
Marshall Keys, Michiel Borstlap. More festival reviews: Jazz on
the Red Sea (Eilat, Israel); Creation of Peace (Kazan, Russia);
September in Tikhvin (St.Petersburg Region, Russia). CD Reviews:
Carla Bley Big Band, Bobo Stenson, Frank Vignola.
#398,
December 27, 2007
pictured: bassist Vladimir Volkov performs with
trumpet player Slava Gaivoronsky and pianist Andrey Kondakov
during Jazz.Ru's 10th anniversary celebration in Moscow,
December 22, 2007 (by Pavel Korbout)
Jazz.Ru Magazine and Web portal wish their readers a
happy New Year and a merry Christmas (as the Orthodox Christian
celebration of Christmas is in January!)
Igor Butman, Russia's Prime Sax Man,
Signs With Sony Classical; his debut album on the renowned
international label, Magic Land, features Chick Corea on piano,
John Patitucci on the bass, Jack DeJohnette on the drums (who
also produced the album), Stefon Harris on the vibes, and Randy
Brecker on trumpet. Two looks on the Jazz.Ru 10th anniversary
celebration at the House of Journalists: one from a
participating musician, and the other from a devoted reader and
concertgoer. Singer Roberta Gambarini in Moscow, as seen by Olga
Yagova. Participants and listeners
discuss Jazz Voices 2007, Moscow's annual jazz vocal festival.
Tanya Kalmanovish discovers Siberia: New York-based,
Canadian-born violin improviser tours the vast Asian part of
Russia. Jazz on Manhattan, Freshly Seen: young Muscovite
journalist Diana Kondrashina reports her first jazz trip to New
York City.
Pianist Oscar Peterson dies at 82: fans mourn the most
popular jazz piano player of the previous century
#397,
December 8, 2007
pictured: Israeli bassist Avishai Cohen performs in
Moscow, Russia, late October, 2007 (by Gulnara Khamatova)
Jazz.Ru celebrates its 10th anniversary at the Moscow House
of Journalists
City Jazz festival in Moscow reviewed. New York-based Edom, the
"Radical Jewish Culture"-recorded group led by guitarist Eyal
Maoz, performs in Moscow. Bassist Avishai Cohen and singer
Datevik Hovannesian headline the City Jazz festival in Moscow.
Karlheinz Miklin, Austria's leading jazz performer and educator,
as seen live in Moscow. Lithuanian bassist and bandleader
Leonidas Shinkarenko interviewed. The chairman of IAJE European
branch participated in an orchestral seminar in Moscow.
GRAMMY ™ Jazz Nominees: a complete list.
#393,
September 24, 2007
pictured: free improviser Sergei Letov
performs in Moscow with his Sax Mafia group in September, 2007 (by
Ruslan Belik)
Jazz.Ru Magazine and Web portal to take part at the Music
Moscow exhibition in Sokolniki Exhibition Park, Moscow
Sax Mafia, Sergei Letov's recent project, performs at DOM club.
Bassist Alex Rostotsky featured four of his recent groups at
Moscow's Union of Composers Club.
Bobby Sanabria in Yerevan, Armenia (reviewed by Armen Manoukian.)
Ukraine's jazz advocate, Alexey Kogan, celebrates his 50th
birthday by a one-day jazz festival in Kiev
Long Arms, avant-garde and improv fest at Moscow's DOM club,
will commemorate the memory of the late DOM founder, Nick
Dmitriev.
Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan, celebrates local jazz
veterans', Safarov brothers', 50th year on jazz stage
21th Red Sea Jazz Festival in Eilat, Israel, reviewed by
Vladimir Mack
Notes from a Camp: Louisville University's Summer Jazz
Workshop as seen by a Russian participant
#392,
September 7, 2007
pictured: Russian jazz veteran Guerman Lukianov
(alto horn) performs with younger Muscovite jazz musician Alexey
Kruglov at the Hermitage Garden, August, 2007 (by Cyril Moshkow)
85th jazz concert season in Moscow kicked off by the 10th
International Jazz at Hermitage Garden Festival
Baku, Azerbaijan Jazz Festival-2007 reviewed by Rovshan
Sananoglu
Drummer Billy Cobham to tour Russia with Alex Rostotsky's Jazz
Bass Theatre
7th Odessa, Ukraine Jazz Festival schedule revealed
Yaroslavl, Russia: city's favorite jazz musician, pianist Vadim
Mainugin, whose day job is an executive position at region's
main Children Hospital, celebrates his 60th birthday
Archangelsk Jazz Days (Northern Russia) complete schedule
Japan's sensational Shibusashirazu Orchestra to play one concert
in Moscow
First-ever global jazz conference titled "Jazz in the Global
Imagination: Music, Journalism, and Culture" to be held at the
Columbia University in New York City
Chick Corea and Bela Fleck will perform in Moscow and
St.Petersburg
#391,
August 23, 2007
pictured: godfather of Free Jazz, Ornette Coleman
performs at Jazz em Agosto Festival in Lisbon, Portugal, on
August 11, 2007 (by Cyril Moshkow)
Featured: Jazz em Agosto Festival, Lisbon, Portugal,
reviewed by Ana Filipieva and Cyril Moshkow
In Memoriam: Russian jazz critic Arkady Petrov, pioneer of
Russian jazz broadcasting, dies at 71; 2nd Don Chento Jazz
Festival in Kaliningrad, Russia; Mingus Dynasty Band and jazz
rock fusion heroes Vital Information to perform in Moscow; Jazz
Muscovy festival launches in Troitsk, Moscow region
Great Jazz drummer Max Roach dies
#390,
July 27, 2007
pictured: bassist Buster Williams performs in
Moscow's Composers Union Club in July, 2007 (by Cyril Moshkow)
Moscow's Composers Union Club quickly makes it to the
leadership on Russian capital's club scene: Jazz.Ru reviews
Joshua Redman's and Buster Williams's performances
More young Russian jazz live on the air: pianist/vocalist
Natalia Smirnova and Crazy Rhythm Band perform live on
nationwide Culture Radio
Moscow's Jazz Art Club completed the ride of its 450 members on
the rivers, channels and lakes around Moscow during the 9th
Moscow Jazz Steamboat tour
Rostov city: local jazzmen perform in front of President
Vladimir Putin (he survives)
Vadim Neselovskiy: Odessa-born, NYC-based piano player
interviewed
Alto sax great Kenny Garrett to perform in Moscow with his new
"Beyond the Wall" album
In Memoriam: trombonist Vladimir Sizov (64), the mainstay of the
jazz scene of the Russian city of Yaroslavl
10th Jazz at the Hermitage Gardens Festival to be held on
August 24 to 26, Moscow
#389,
June 30, 2007
pictured: trombonist Roswell Rudd on the stage of
Moscow's Compoers Union Club on June 21, 2007 (by Cyril Moshkow)
Moscow's Composers Union Club completed its 2nd
International Composers Union Jazz Festival: a music content
overview - veteran trombonist Roswell Rudd
joins forces with Moscow's The Second Approach Trio,
Al Foster plays his drums off etc.
1980s Soviet avant-garde leaders, trumpet player Slava Guyvoronsky,
drummer Vladimir Tarasov and sax man Vladimir Chekasin, at their
joint 180/3 (three-man 60th anniversary) party in St.Petersburg.
1970s Soviet jazz innovator Guerman Lukianov, 70, to perform
live in the studio of Russia's nationwide Culture Radio with his
current Kadans Millenium Band: reviewed by those who presented
him on air.
In Memoriam: the best big band arranger in Soviet and Russian
jazz, Igor Butman Big Band's musical director Vitaly Dolgov,
dies in Ruga, Latvia, at 70. A Leningrad native, the founding
member of the first Soviet Jazz club in Leningrad (now
St.Petersburg,) saxophonist Arkady Memhes, dies at 71 in St.Paul,
Minnesota.
Jazz events to come: trumpet player Eric Truffaz at Moscow's B1
Maximum club; singer Freddie Cole in the Archangelskoe Estate
near Moscow; bassist Buster Williams and reedist Joshua Redman
to top the bill of the 3rd International Composers Union Jazz
Festival; pianist Andrei Kondakov & Brazil
All Stars plus special guest, sax great David Sanchez, to play
in the inner yard of St.Petersburg Hermitage, the former Tsar's
winter palace.
Jazz Journalists Association presented the 11th annual Jazz
Awards in New York City
#388,
June 16, 2007
pictured: Avishai Cohen performs with his Israeli trio at
the Jazz Mansion Festival in the Archangelskoe Estate near
Moscow, June 3, 2007 (by Cyril Moshkow)
4th Jazz Mansion Festival in the Archangelskoe Estate
near Moscow: Moscow's biggest jazz open-air featured Paolo
Fresu, Avishai Cohen, Marcus Miller and others.
Slava Guyvoronsky's 60th birthday at Moscow's DOM: the acclaimed
trumpet player presented his 43 Capriccios.
In the Northern Russian city of Archangelsk, guitarist Tim
Dorofeyev presented Archangelsk Blues Festival.
Singer Kurt Elling to perform in Moscow.
Moscow House of Music reveals its 2007/2008 jazz season.
1970s Soviet jazz innovator Guerman Lukianov, 70, to perform
live in the studio of Russia's nationwide Culture Radio with his
current Kadans Millenium Band.
#387,
May 31, 2007
pictured: horn virtuoso Arkady Shilkloper performs at the
Pushino Jazz Games, May 25, 2007 (by Cyril Moshkow)
Pushino, small scientific community and campus 50 miles
south from Moscow, revitalizes its 1960-1980s jazz festival
tradition broken in the 1990s: Mikhail Mitropolsky produces the
new version of the festival - Pushino Jazz Games.
Jazz Express in Tver, Russia: the new festival's 3rd edition.
The late avant-garde bassist Aleksandr Nesterov remembered in
Kyiv, Ukraine. In the Russian city of Ryazan, local fusion group
Feelin's presents their collaboration with New York-based Art
Blakey Jazz Messengers vet Valery Ponomarev, both as trumpet
player and narrator. Avant-garde cellist Vlad Makarov tells the
story of Swiss-based event titled Uncool Festival of Jazz Improv
World Cosmo Music.
Russian trumpet virtuoso Sergey Pron interviewed.
#386,
May 20, 2007
pictured: Slide Hampton rises the Dizzy Gillespie All
Stars during their May 16, 2007 performance at the Tchaikovsky
Hall in Moscow, Russia (by Cyril Moshkow)
Dizzy Gillespie All Stars Big Band tore down the house in
Moscow, Russia: visual impressions!
Joey DeFrancesco performs in Moscow: reviewed by Nikolay Shienok.
16th Jazz Transit Festival in Ekaterinburg, Russia: Mikhail
Mitropolsky observes jazz trends in Russia's Ural Region capital
city. 6th All-Russian Competition of Young Jazz Performers in
Rostov, Russia: complete results. DoJ-Junior Jazz Competition in
Donetsk, Ukraine: complete results. Irkutsk, Siberia: 8th
International jazz festival Jazz Over Angara River announced.
Roman Stolyar's California Improvising: Siberian improv wiz
on how he taught improvisation at the CalArts.
#385,
May 5, 2007
pictured: Archie Shepp during his Tallinn, Estonia
performance on April 27, 2007 (by Cyril Moshkow)
Jazzkaar 2007
festival in Tallinn, Estonia: reviewed by Anna Filipieva and
Cyril Moshkow
Muscovite trio The Second Approach and Siberian improv wiz Roman
Stoulyar join forces at the shared concert in Moscow's newest
Composers' Union Club
Archangelsk "April Jazz Thesis" festival, reviewed by Mikhail
Mitropolsky
Ten years of jazz at the Moscow Students Festival: Zinaida
Kartasheva analyzes the trend
Dmitry Ukhov and Michael Green review Israel's International
Music Exposure
Jill McManus reviews a New York date of Five Corners,
Russian-American jazz band
20th Jazz Improvizacija 2007 solo jazz piano competition in
Vilnius, Lithuania: call for registration
Jazz back on Radio Liberty waves: Dmitry Savitsky now hosts Nine
Minutes of Jazz instead of his legendary 49 Minutes of Jazz, off
the air since 2004
Contemporary sax great Eric Marienthal to perform in Moscow
with Russian group Trans Atlantik... and many other forthcoming
festivals and concerts in Russia
 #384,
April 12, 2007
pictured: Alex Rostotsky, of the Jazz Bass Theatre, Moscow, 2007 (by Cyril Moshkow)
Third Le Jazz, the French Jazz Festival in Moscow, as
reviewed by Cyril Moshkow
Russian Jazz Stars Festival: Nick Levinovsky, Igor Butman Big
Band and Alex Sipiagin - Boris Kozlov Quartet top the bill at
the Pavel Clobodkin Center in downtown Moscow (reviewed by Anna
Filipieva and Cyril Moshkow).
Sax man Lew Tabackin plays in Moscow (a listener's review)
More Live Jazz To Come: Richard Bona in Moscow and St.Petersburg,
pianist Dave Kikoski at Igor Butman Jazz Club, keyboard player
Lonnie Liston Smith at the new B1 Maximum venue in Moscow, and
St.Petersburg Big Band to celebrate its 5th birthday in Russia's
historical Northern Capital. A Bit of Jazz in Yorkshire:
musicologist Zinaida Kartasheva visits a jazz conference in
Leeds, UK. TheJazz.Com reveals the Brits' jazz taste.
Drumming Great Billy Cobham joins forces with Alex Rostotsky
Jazz Bass Theatre at Moscow's JazzTown Club
 #383,
March 29, 2007
pictured: Roman Stolyar, Moscow, 2006 (by Pavel
Korbout)
Let's turn April in Russia to Jazz Appreciation Month!
Todd Barkan (of Jazz @ Lincoln Center) reviews Russian-American
jazz concert at the St.Petersburg Hermitage Palace.
Pianist George Coleman in Moscow, as reviewed by Anna Filipieva.
Sax man Igor Butman launches his own Igor Butman Jazz Club in
downtown Moscow.
Igor Butman Big Band to play at the Moscow House of Music.
April marks the first Jazz Appreciation Month in Estonia.
Siberian improv wiz Roman Stolyar joins forces with Muscovites
from The Second Approach Trio at the Composers Union Club
in Moscow.
 #376,
January 17, 2006
pictured: Soulbop Band, Moscow, 2005 (by Cyril Moshkow)
Triumph of Jazz #8: plans for the February's Moscow main
jazz event revealed, Randy Brecker/Bill Evans' Soulbop Band to
top the bill
Grigory Nemirovsky interviewed: Kiev-born, Germany-based jazz
trumpet player, pianist, and early music enthusiast speaks about
jazz in Ukraine and other intriguing things
Regional reviews: jazz club launched in Ufa, Bashkortostan
Autonomy; Snowy Jazz Festival in Yekaterinburg
Vocal Zone a cappella festival in Moscow's Jazz Town Club to
feature four leading vocal groups from post-Soviet countries,
including ManSound from Ukraine, Camerata from Belarus, and two
Russian acts: Jukebox from Kazan and A'Cappella ExpreSSS
fromMoscow
Yuri Machkasov tells the story of Scott LaFaro's favorite bass
Farewells: Michael Brecker, Alice Coltrane
 #375,
December 27, 2006
pictured: Vladimir Feyertag, Moscow, 2006 (by Pavel
Korbout)
Jazz critic and historian Vladimir Feyertag turns 75!
Jazz.Ru announces changes, analyzes innovations, wishes all the
best in the new jazzy 2007!
Mikhail Mitropolsky and Roman Stolyar analyze innovative trends
as they visit Jazz.Ru 9th Birthday and Magazine Launch Party in
Moscow and the renewed Pushchino Jazz Festival near Moscow
Two Arkadies in Dubna: Yuri Lnogradski witnesses the performance
of horn man Arkady Shilkloper and tuba/vocal eccentric Arkady
Freeman in Dubna, the capital of Russian nuclear physics
Moscow calling: Israeli pianist Mikhail Agre joins forces with
Muscovite new jazz multireedist Sergey Letov; JazzTown hosts the
Jazz Transformation Show; Funk Family All Stars to present the
young generation of Muscovite funksters
December Farewells: Ahmet Ertegun, James Brown
Jazz Globe in the Eternal City: 3rd edition of Jerusalem
International Jazz Festival reviewed |
#2/3-2013 (55/56):
 On
the cover: David Goloshokin (cover photo by
Evgeny Eliner)
the director of St.Petersburg Jazz Philharmonic Hall turns 70
The Happiest Jazzman in the World: David Goloshokin interviewed
(by Anna Filipieva)
Boris Frumkin's Jazz Life
Russian pianist and current leader of the Oleg Lundstrem
Orchestra, Russia's oldest big band, interviewed (by Cyril
Moshkow)
Jazz Travel. North Sea Jazz 2014: A Herculean Task of Choice
Robert Bagdasarov and Elina Samoilenko review the gargantuan
Rotterdam festival in words and photos
Musician's Tales. Alexei Shubin: The Stage From Piano Tuner's
Point of View
Moscow-based piano tuner and accredited Rhodes piano technician
shares several stories from his years of experience
The Capital of Jazz. Meanwhile in New York: spring
Jazz.Ru reinstalls the regular New York news column, now with
Andrey Henkin as columnist!
History. My Blue Bird: 50 years since the opening of the
legendary Moscow jazz club, active 1964 to 2010 (by Mikhail Kull)
Behind the Stage: Rafail Tuishev, producer of the Rostov Jazz
festival in southern Russia, interviewed on the occasion of his 75th
birthday
The Discreet Charm of the Vinyl. History of Jazz LP Cover art,
Chapter Five: Prestige Records (by Oleg Skvortsov)
ArtBeat. Anton Gorbunov: New Stories For E-Bass and Ensemble
Moscow-based electric bass virtuoso interviewed before his
new dual CD/DVD live release
Vijay Iyer: The Real I
Part of Europe Jazz Media text exchange program, this article
from German magazine Jazzthetik reveals the details of the famed
NYC-based Indo-American pianist's debut on ECM
The Life and Fate of Drummer Boris Bagdasarov
Moscow-based pianist Yakov Okun interviews Russia's oldest
working jazz drummer who just turned 87
History. "St. Louis Blues": A Centennial
Vladimir Feyertag about the history of the W.C.Handy's evergreen
title
In Memoriam. Pianist Horace Silver, bassist Charlie Haden,
pioneer Russian jazz vocalist Nonna Sukhanova
Russian Real Book: piece by pianist Eldar Djangirov
#1-2013 (54):
 On
the cover: Dave Holland, headliner of the Triumph of Jazz Festival in Moscow
Interviewed: Igor Butman - "We Have Talented Cadre To
Conquer The World With".
Russia's leading bandleader interviewed after Moscow State Big
Band's North American tour.
Jazz Travels. Tampere Jazz Happening: continuity as a sign of
excellence
Jazz.Ru editor Cyril Moshkow reviews Finland's most artistically
daring jazz event
The Capital of Jazz. Meanwhile in New York: winter
Jazz.Ru reinstalls the regular New York news column, now with
Andrey Henkin as columnist!
The Legendary. Alexei Zoubov: Soviet Jazz legend from L.A.
A big biographical interview with renowned Russian saxophonist
who visited his native Moscow for the first time since his
emigration in mid-1980s.
The Fate. Nathan Leites: The American Adventures
The legendary, late staple of Leningrad jazz scene, Nathan Leites
(1937-2013) tells the story of his unlikely mid-1990s U.S. anabasis
in this chapter from his massive last interview, taken by Jazz.Ru
Magazine's Anna Filipieva
The Discreet Charm of the Vinyl. History of Jazz LP Cover art,
Chapter Five: Reid Miles (by Oleg Skvortsov)
Maxim Gorky, America, and Jazz: Vladimir Feyertag reads the
late Russian Stormbringer's Collected Correspondence and analyzes
Gorky's views on music, epitomized in his infamous 1928 Music of the
Fat People essay.
Russian Music and Jazz: An Unwritten Romance?
St.Petersburg-based musicologist Alexander Galitzky muses on
mutual influences between Jazz and Russian classical music.
2014 Grammy jazz winners: an overview
Soviet Jazz: A Testimony. 1960s Moscow Jazz festivals on
vinyl and on photo: Mikhail Kull comments on his own photo chronicle
of the Jazz 67 and Jazz 68 festivals in Russian capital.
14th Triumph of Jazz festival in Moscow: Rudresh
Mahanthappa and Dave Holland interviewed, by Gregory
Durnovo.
ArtBeat. Moscow-based Ornament Trio: Third Rebirth, First
Album - violinist Felix Lahuti interviewed
In Memoriam: producer Victor Livshitz; flugelhornist Igor
Shirokov; professional rebel Amiri Baraka; pianist/bari
sax player Vsevolod Danilochkin
Russian Real book: a piece by bassist Ark Ovrutsky
#5-2013 (51):
 On
the cover: John Zorn (cover photo by
Peter
Gannushkin)
the leader of the Downtown New York improv scene turns 60
Infrastructure: Odessa, Ukraine - Master Jam Fest
a new, unique format of a jazz competition/festival thoroughly
reviewed, and commented by jury members, Cyril Moshkow and Vladimir
Feyertag
Jazz Travels: Bergen, Norway - Natjazz
Gregory Durnovo reviews Norway's oldest jazz festival's 51st
edition, and interviews Norwegian musicians, pianist Espen
Eriksen and trumpet player Mathias Eick
History: pianist Victor Fridman, "Jazz In My Life"
a thorough memoir by a pianist who remains active on Moscow's jazz
scene since his debut in early 1960s
Singer Anna Buturlina interviewed, by Eugenia Bragantseva
Jazz at the Hermitage Garden Festival: the 16th downtown Moscow
festival's special inlay
News: young Russian musicians Alexey Ivannikov (piano)
and Anastasia Volokitina (vocal) win prizes at, respectively,
piano and vocal jazz competitions during the Montreux Jazz
Festival in Swinzerland / Pianist Leonid Vintskevich awarded by
prestigious government prize in Russia / Europe Jazz Media Chart /
American Jazz Radio chart / NEA 2014 Jazz Masters announced
ArtBeat: keyboardist and Russian folk music enthusiast
Sergey Filatov interviewed (by Dmitri Filatov,) as ArtBeat Music
label releases Filatov's duet album with guitarist Valery Kiss,
and Filatov produces his EthnoSphere festival for ArtBeat-run
Alexey Kozlov Club in Moscow this September
The Discreet Charm of Vinyl: Oleg Skvortsov with the 2nd
installment of his Jazz Vinyl Covers History, this time on LP
sleeve artist Jim Flora
Jazzed People: Anna Filipieva interviews Russian veteran jazz
photographer Alexander Zabrin on the occasion of his photo
album release, Alexander Zabrin's Triumph of Jazz
Usadba Jazz 2013 festival near Moscow reviewed, by Anna
Filipieva and Constantine Volkov; bassist Avishai Cohen who
headlined one of the festival's five stages interviewed by Gregory
Durnovo
To mark Wayne Shorter's 80th birthday, Diana Kondrashin
translates a chapter from Michelle Mercer's Footprints (announcing
the forthcoming Russian edition of the book.)
Sergei Ryazantsev: "Every Saxophonist Sounds Different"
Anna Filipieva interviews Muscovite sax educator who raised two
generations of Russian sax players, on the occasion of his 60th
birthday
In Memoriam: pianist George Duke; Russian saxophonist
Vitaly Kleinot; Estonian singer Silvi Vrait
Russian Real Book: piece by pianist Mikhail Kull
#3/4-2013 (49/50):
 On
the cover: Avshai Cohen (cover photo by Youri Lenquette)
the headliner of the 10th International Usadba Jazz Festival in
Archangelskoe near Moscow
Special 10th anniversary Usadba Jazz festival supplement:
an interview with Maria Syomushkina, Usadba Jazz producer
an overview of 2013 Usadba Jazz program
10 glorious years: snippets from Jazz.Ru coverage of the
2004-2012 Usadba Jazz festivals
Big Jazz: Russia's nationwide Kultura TV channel's "jazz
reality show" analyzed
Jazz travel:
8th Jazz_Bishkek_Spring festival in the capital of
Kyrgyzstan, Central Asia
Jazzahead! 2013 - Bremen, Germany: Europe's jazz fair
50 Years With Joy And Love: Moscow jazz record producer
Nikolay "Big Nick" Bogaichuk interviewed
A History Of A Person: Leningrad/St.Petersburg jazz enthusiast
Nathan Leites in conversation with Jazz.Ru Magazine's
associate editor Anna Filipieva; Nathan's personal collections
spanning five decades of Leningrad jazz scene history moved to
the Russian Jazz Research Center in Yaroslavl - the jazz archive
road story!
The Discreet Charm Of Vinyl. The history of jazz album
covers, vol. I - Alex Steinweiss, by Oleg Skvortsov.
In Memoriam: saxophonist Anatole Gerasimov (1945-2013)
#1-2013 (47):
 On
the cover: Dave Brubeck (cover photo by Pavel Korbut) as
seen by, and spoken about, by his son, trombone and bass player
Chris Brubeck
Peter Vostokov & The Big Jazz Orchestra play Tchaikovski/Ellington/Strayhorn:
an interview with the leading trumpet player from Russia's younger jazz
generation
9th Rostov Jazz Festival: Cyril Moshkow, Jazz.Ru editor,
reviews the gathering of the southernmost regional Russian jazz scene
'RUSSIAN JAZZ': a two-volume hardcover collection of Jazz.Ru
articles on Russian jazz is published in St.Petersburg
SibJazzFest-2012: a review of the Siberia's best jazz festival
Yuri Galkin: The British Graduate. Jazz.Ru interviews the
bassist who recently returned to Moscow after a 7-year stint in
London.
Marina Vishnyakova and her Atlantic Experience: Russian jazz
violinist who gradually makes it in Philadelphia
Tampere Jazz Happening 2012: Anna Filipieva reviews Finland's
grandest jazz festival
News From Helsinki: the presentation of Finnish jazz scene in
Moscow reviewed
Sergey Khutas "Moscow...Sky": an interview with Russian bassist
on his debut album as a leader
Saxophonist Nikolai Vinstkevich interviewed on his work with
his father, pianist Leonid Vinskevich, and the role the Jazz Province
festival (which he helps his father to produce) plays in their lives
(by Anna Filipieva)
In Memoriam. Soviet jazz veteran saxophonist Emil Geigner
passes away at 91; we also bid farewell to jazz radio host Moisei
Rybak (1934-2013) and Siberian jazz drummer, Sergei Kushilkin (1962-2013)
#6/7, 2012:
December,
2012
(cover clickable)
On the cover: Russian-American trumpet player Alex Sipiagin
at the 15th Hermitage Garden Jazz Festival in Moscow (photo &
interview by Anna Filipieva).
Ustuu Huree Living Faith & Music festival in Tuva
(Eastern Russia): Yuri Lnogradski reports on the most unusual
music experience in his life
The Discreet Charm of the Vinyl: Nick Shienok on The Jazz
Composer’s Orchestra's «Communication»
Ystad Sweden Jazz Festival and its Secrets of Growth, as
reviewed by Yuri Lnogradski.
Drummer Oleg Butman and pianist Natalia Smirnova
interviewed on their partnership in music and life, and their
second album, Runway
Doyen of Russian jazz critique, Vladimir Feyertag interviews
saxophonists Kirill Bubyakin and Sergei Bogdanov who share the
leadership in St.Petersburg's newest Jazz Philharmonic Big
Band
Vladimir Nesterenko's Organ: ArtBeat Foundation releases
the first-ever organ trio album in Russian jazz, Diana
Kondrashina interviews the player
In Memoriam: Dave Brubeck, John Tchicai
Jazz Greats, a popular collection of jazz biographies and
interviews edited by Jazz.Ru Magazine's Cyril Moshkow and
co-authored by 14 Jazz.Ru writers, reissued by St.Petersburg-based
Planet of Music company as a two-volume hardcover set
Interviewed in Moscow: pianist Hiromi and guitarist
Pat Martino (both by Grigory Durnovo)
John Cage and Jazz: The Love Story That Never Happened,
by Roman Stolyar
90th Years of Jazz in Russia section:
- Semion Ginzburg, the Russian Jazzology Pioneer: the
life story of a man who published the first book on jazz in
Russian language in 1926
- How the new Kazan City Big Band led by Anatoly Vasilevski
celebrated the 90th Russian Jazz Birthday (October 1, 2012) by a
massive concert retrospective (as seen by Vladimir Feyertag)
- City of Taganrog installed a plaque on the birthplace of
dancer/ bandleader/ poet Valentin Parnakh, the city's
native, who pioneered Russian jazz in 1922
- Mikhail Kull summarizes his research on the 1st Moscow Jazz
Festival which takes place exactly 50 years ago
- Soviet jazz superstar from the 1960s, trumpeter Andrei
Tovmasian, celebrates his 70th birthday...
...and much more!
#4/5, 2012:
August,
2012
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On the cover: Jack DeJohnette celebrates his 70th birthday.
A failure as an experience: The Modern Intellectual Art Festival
in Moscow, and its last-minute cancellation.
Joshua Redman premiered his Axis Saxophone Quartet in
Moscow (+interview).
Jazz.Mansion Festival (Usadba.Jazz): the 9th edition in
Moscow, the 2nd in St.Petersburg
How to run a label in our times: Norwegian saxophonist/record
label executive Karl Seglem interviewed
Awards given: Jazz Awards (+the story of Russian
photographer Pavel Korbut who was awarded for the Photo
of the Year) and Jazz Masters 2013
St.Petersburg-based pianist Andrey Kondakov interviewed
on the occasion of his 50th birthday
Dr.Laksminarayana Subramaniam: The World Fusion.
Legendary Indian fusion violinist celebrates turns 65
A memoir by Alexander Salgannik, drummer from Moscow who
celebrates his 80th birthday (currently a San Jose, CA
resident,) on his jazz experience in the 1950s and 60s
Dmitry Ilugdin, Moscow-based pianist and composer,
interviewed
Valby Summer Jazz festival in Copenhagen, Denmark, as
witnessed by Sergei Bondarkov
Tomasz Szukalski, Polish saxophonist, passes away at 65
North Sea Jazz 2012, in words and pictures
VDU Jazz Connection festival in Kaunas, Lithuania: event
profile...
...and much more!
#2/3, 2012: June,
2012
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On the cover (photo by Anna Filipieva): saxophonist
Rudresh Mahanthappa performs at the Jazzkaar festival
in Tallinn, Estonia, as reviewed by Jazz.Ru editors Cyril
Moshkow and Anna Filipieva
Jazz travels: Bergen, Norway - 40th Nattjazz Festival
and Jazz Norway in a Nutshell showcase, as witnessed by
Cyril Moshkov
Jazz education, Philly way: an interview with Don
Glanden, of Philadelphia's UArts Jazz Program
Herbie Hancock interviewed in Moscow during his Russian
tour
The International Jazz Day: saxophonist Igor Butman
on the inaugural celebration in Paris
Bassist Christian McBride in Moscow: a concert review
St.Petersburg improv drummer Alexander Ragazanov tells
his life story in an extensive interview
The Young Scene. Pianist Alexey Ivannikov: "There's
nothing you can do in New York City if your eyes aren't glowing"
12th Triumph of Jazz Festival reviewed
Saxophonist Oleg Kireyev awarded with the People's Artist
honorary title in his native Russian republic of Bashkortostan
Soviet jazz veteran, saxophonist Alexey Kozlov opens his
own club in Moscow at 77
ArtBeat: composer/producer/bassist Alex Rostotsky on his
African tour
The Russian Trail leads Leo Records to Russia: Leo Records
Festival in three major Russian cities unites Soviet
avant-garde veterans and the new generation of the Russian
improv scene... and much more!
#1-2012: February, 2012
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On the cover (photo by Pavel Korbout): saxophonist
James Carter, as interviewed by Jazz.Ru editor Cyril Moshkow on
the day of Carter's performance in Moscow.
Jazz travels: Anna Filipieva reviews the 31st Tampere Jazz
Happening; Anna Filipieva and Cyril Moshkow travel to the
Holy Land in a pilgrimage to the 8th Jerusalem Jazz Globus
Festival.
Improvisation on Glass: Grigory Durnovo on a unique
project that brought together in Tallinn, Estonia, Norwegian
musicians Terje Isungset and Arve Henriksen with
Estonian glass artists
ArtBeat: the Presidential Manifesto - Russian jazz vet
Alexey Kozlov on his new culture initiatives foundation
Yuri Markin: "Interested in Jazz Because It's A Music
That Lives" - bassist, pianist, and composer from Moscow
reflects on his life in music as he reaches 75
In Memoriam: Bob Brookmeyer, Etta James, and veteran
Leningrad drummer Valery Mysovsky
Grammy 2012: are the jazz winners reflecting something?
Anything?
Moscow-based pianist Lev Kushnir celebrates his 50th
birthday and shares his survival strategies, in an extensive
interview
Anna Filipieva on bassist William Parker as he visits
Russia
Russian Real Book: a theme by saxophonist Dmitry "Bobeen"
Aleksandrov (currently with Kiev Big Band )...
and much more!
#6/7-2011 released in
December, 2011
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On the cover (photo by Pavel Korbout): reeds master
Ken Vandermark, with an extensive interview by Grigory
Durnovo, and Martian Chronicles from Ken Vandermark -
Paal Nilseen-Love Duo performances in Russia. St.Petersburg-based
jazz historian, critic, radio presenter, festival producer,
Russia's favorite on-stage festival host and book author,
Vladimir Feyertag, turns 80; would you believe that? - in a
massive interview, by Anna Filipieva. Soviet jazz pioneer,
pianist, composer, and bandleader Alexander Tsfasman
would be 105 in December; a life's story synonymous with Soviet
Jazz history. Ladislav "Laczy" Olah @100: from Hungary
non-stop to Gulag, and on to the Soviet jazz Hall of Fame - the
story of the most prominent drummer in early Russian jazz, by
Andrei Solovyov. Festivals in review: SibJazzFest in
Novosibirsk, Russia (by Kim Voloshin); Jazz in Kiev,
Ukraine (by Grigory Durnovo, including an interview with Carla
Bley and Steve Swallow); EDGEFEST in Ann Arbor, MI (by
Roman Stolyar); and Belgrade Jazz Festival, Serbia (by
Tanya Balakyrska). Saxophonist Igor Butman celebrates his
50th birthday at the 6,000-seat Kremlin Palace Theater in
Moscow: the house sold out as the American jazz stars sat in.
The Secret of His Playing: R.I.P. drummer Paul Motian
(1931-2011). Jazz Province on the move: Russia's only
moving jazz festival still on the road, after 15 years. No
Listeners In Your Home Country? - producer and journalist
Yuri Lnogradski replies to a controversial statement by pianist
Eugene Sivtsov from the previous Jazz.Ru issue. Russian Real
Book: a theme by bassist Vitaly Solomonov (currently with
Igor Butman Big Band and quartet)...
and much more!
#4/5-2011 released in October, 2011
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On the cover (photo by Pavel Korbout): pianist
Leszek Mozdzer, The Face of Polish Jazz. Siberian city of
Krasnoyarsk on the mighty Enisei river re-launches local
jazz festival with 30 years of history, this year under the new
name: EniJazz. 14th Jazz at the Hermitage Garden
festival opened Moscow's 89th jazz concert season. Sounds of
Gibraltar Strait: Alex Belyaev reviews the TANJAzz
festival in Tangiers, Morocco. Guitarist Russsel Malone
interviewed in Moscow. The first documentary about Valentin
Parnakh, the pioneer of Russian jazz, released. Why going
to America? - Pyotr Gazarov interviews several young Russian
jazz musicians about their experience in the U.S.; saxophonist
Nikolay Moiseenko reflects on his own American years; Manhattan
School of Music's Jazz Program chair, Justin DiCioccio,
interviewed. "Pops. The Life of Louis Armstrong": we
present the forthcoming Russian translation of Terry Teachout's
book. Bassist Vladimir Volkov interviewed. In Memoriam:
arranger Pete Rugolo. The first Vladimir Rezitsky
Festival in Archangelsk celebrates the memory and legacy of
the late saxophonist, ten years after his untimely passing.
Russian Jazz Research Center unveils its first acquisitions.
Saxophonist Igor Butman's theme in our Russian Real Book
section marks the famed Russia musician's 50th birthday...
and much more!
#3-2011 released in August, 2011
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On the cover (photo by Pavel Korbout): 75 years of
independence - Herman Lukianov, the leading Russian jazz
composer and bandleader in the 1960s and 1970s, turns 75 and
works on new music with a new band! Valery Mysovsky's
Blues for a Few: St.Petersburg-based drummer and co-author of
the first Russian jazz book (1960) turns 80, and shares excerpts
from his autobiography. Jazz Travels: the 50th Molde
Jazz Festival in Norway - the music keeps playing. From the
history: Half a Century Ago - Mikhail Kull tells the story of
the first Moscow jazz clubs, opened in late 1961. Lviv,
Ukraine: Debut Level Confirmed - the city's first Alpha Jazz
Fest reviewed by
Viachek
Kryshtofovych, Jr. Doing Her Thang: vocalist and producer
Alina Rostotskaya interviewed by Tanya Balakyrska. New
books: Leonid Pereverzev's posthumous collection of works
(An Offering To Ellington, and Other Jazz Texts) released
in St.Petersburg. Jazz Travels: Cyril Moshkow reviews the 7th
Bari in Jazz festival (Bari, Italy).
In Memoriam. Sax man Frank Foster (1928-2011)... and much more!
#2-2011 released in July, 2001
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On the cover (photo by Pavel Korbout): Chick Corea
Turns 70: the great pianist's memorable appearance in Moscow
with Gary Burton. Jazz April in Ufa: Bashkortostan
Republic, member of the Russian Federation, is first in Russia
to join the JAM (Jazz Appreciation Month). Tallinn
Music Week: in the kitchen - Yuri Lnogradski on the Estonian
capital's jazz showcase, and how it worked. The Vintskevich
Phenomenon: Leonid Vintskevich, acclaimed pianist/composer
and the artistic director for Jazz Province, Central Russia's
premier moving festival, in an extensive interview by Anna
Filipieva. Vladimir Tolkachov, The Hard Man: the life
story of Siberia's famous bandleader, as told by himself on the
occasion of his 60th birthday. Bremen and the musicians:
jazzahead! showcase in Germany is gaining momentum, as
observed by Gregory Durnovo. The Dutch Recipe: European
jazz model with its highs and lows, as viewed during the
Gateway to Dutch Jazz showcase in Amersfoort, Netherlands... and much more!
#1-2011 released in April, 2001
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On the cover (photo by Gulnara Khamatova): Joshua Redman at the Triumph of Jazz
festival in Moscow, Russia, 2011 (a complete estival review
inside). Tampere Jazz Happening: the revolution is going
on, as reported by Cyril Moshkow. Education: ISIM (International
Society for Improvised Music) 5th conference, viewed by
Roman Stolyar. Grammy Awards 2011: Esperanza Spalding's
unexpected triumph, and the complete list of jazz winners. Jazz
environment: Norway's Jazzkirken (Jazz Church), in an
intense first-hand analysis by Yuri Lnogradski. In Memoriam:
Dr. Billy Taylor (1921-2010); Dr. Billy Taylor's Mysterious
Sounds session with Larry Appelbaum. Russian Jazz History:
Sergey Belichenko unveils funny and heroic in his memoirs on
1960s jazz movement in Siberia. Portrait: Russian-German
trumpet player Igor Shirokov - a life of a jazz champion.
In Memoriam: pianist George Shearing (1919-2011)... and much more!
#6/7-2010 released
on December 4, 2010!
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On the cover: Mike Stern in Siberia? Unfold the story
of the new SibJazzFest in Novosibirsk, Siberia's
unofficial capital!
This issue's featured story: How To Make A Jazz Festival?
Alongside Siberian Jazz Festival, thoroughly covered by
Anna Filipieva, we also have several more festival stories in
store: Larry Appelbaum tells the story of the Molde Jazz
Festival in Norway; Gregory Durnovo portraits the exotic
TANJAzz in Tangier, Morocco; other writers review Moscow's
Hermitage Garden Jazz Festival, Austria's Chilli Jazz,
and September in Tikhvin in Northwestern Russia; Cyril
Moshkow interviews George Wein, the inventor of all jazz
festivals, for the occasion of his 85th birthday; and Yuri "Ge-or-Ge"
Lnogradski tells the epic multi-layered tale of Silda Jazz
in Norway!
Also in this issue: interviewed - drummer Oleg Yudanov,
of the Archangelsk Jazz Group fame; the godfather of Russian
jazz rock fusion, sax man Alexey Kozlov, who turns 75;
Ellington alumnus, flautist and saxophonist Anatole Gerasimov;
pianist Igor Volodin speaks about his new album, Quiet
Light... and much more!
#5-2010 released on September 21, 2010!
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On the cover: Anna Buturlina, the brightest star of Russian Jazz Vocal, in an extensive interview by Anna Filipieva.
Russia's premier trombonist, Max Piganov, tells his life story. Jazz Travels: TD Vancouver International Jazz Festival, by Larry Appelbaum. Introducing Eugene Lebedev, Russia's rising jazz piano star, and his latest album «From East To West». Ashley Kahn's «Kind Of Blue» released in Russian translation. Two young Russians' success on Montreaux Jazz Competitions: pianist Nikolay Sidorenko and vocalist Yulianna Rogacheva interviewed. On the Rise: Estonia's new voice in jazz - bassist Peedu Kaas. Festival review: Don Chento Jazz Festival in Kaliningrad, Western Russia. Clarinetist Ben Goldberg of Tin Hat interviewed... and much more!
#3/4-2010 released on August 5, 2010!
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On the cover: John Abbott's portrait of Hank Jones,
accompanying "The Last of Joneses," a feature story about
Hank's long and fruitful life in music. Festival chronicles:
extensive reviews of the Moscow's "Mansion.Jazz",
Tallin's Jazzkaar and Plios Jazz Festival in rural
part of Northern Russia. The National Jazz Guide: Republic of
Belarus - a review of jazz history (including a story about
the centennial of Eddie Rosner, the founder of jazz in
Belarus,) today's jazz scene, and the state of jazz education in
Belarus. Jazz Awards 2010: an overview, including the
triumph of our staff photographer Lena Adasheva, who won
the Photo of the Year award. Vienna Art Orchestra: game
over. Seattle's Real Poets: Yuri Lnogradski interviews
Dennis Rea and Jay Jaskot. Roy Haynes and the Fountain of
Youth: Diana Kondrashina attends the 85th birthday celebration
of the legendary drummer in NYC. Pianist Valery Grokhovsky
at 50: "It's so easy to vulgarize the classics!" Kurt
Gottschalk's New York Is Now. Space Vibrations in the
capital of Siberia: Roman Stolyar interviews Matthew Shipp
after the latter's concert with Sabir Mateen in Novosibirsk.
Bassist Dominic Duval interviewed by Maxim Micheliov.
Young Scene: Pianist Grigory Sandomirsky. In Memoriam:
Rob McConnell, Fred Anderson, Lena Horne, Joya Sherrill.
Russians Keep Coming: pianist Nikolay Sidorenko wins
Montreux Jazz Festival's Boesendorfer Solo Piano Competition,
singer Yuliana Rogacheva takes home the Listeners Prize
from the Shure Montreaux Jazz Voice Competition... and much
more!
#2-2010 released on May 12, 2010!
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On the cover: New Albums: Oleg Kireyev – Keith Javors
«Rhyme & Reason». Triumph of Jazz headliners interviewed:
Mike Stern, Lionel Loueke, McCoy Tyner. Remembering
Leonid Utiosov, the Mega-Star of the Soviet Jazz, on the
occasion of his 115th birthday. New Names on the Russian scene:
from the tiny Northern town of Tikhvin - pianist Igor Volodin.
Vahag Hairaperian, Armenia's most popular jazz pianist:
"I cannot be without music" Moscow-based art fusion group
Marimba Plus celebrates its 10th birthday. Kurt Gottschalk's
New York Is Now. Uri Caine in Moscow: an interview.
The Empress of the Blues: Bessie Smith (from Cyril Moshkow's
forthcoming book, The Blues. Introduction to a History.)
Young trumpet players competition: a voice from the jury.
New Albums: Dmitri Kolesnik & HMK trio: «Russian Caravan»
Young Scene: extreme sax improv from Ilya Belorukov. In
Memoriam: Gene Lees, Herb Ellis, Mike Zwerin. Russian
Real Book: a theme from trumpet player Alex Fisher.
#1-2010 released on March 22, 2010!
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On the cover: Bobby McFerrin presented Bobble, his
"improvised opera," with seventeen improvising vocalists from
all over the world at the Moscow House of Music. Jazz.Ru
turns 12: a review of our birthday festival. JazzBez:
Ukraine's most colorful jazz festival. Legendary leader of
Soviet free jazz movement, Slava Ganelin, turns 65: an
interview from his current hometown, Jerusalem. From ISIM
conference in Santa Cruz, CA: hopes and perspectives of the
world improv community. In Memoriam: sir John Dankworth.
Sound Mystery as solved by Valery Ponomarev. Kurt
Gottschalk's New York Is Now. Evgeny Grechishev, pianist
and educator, interviewed. The Village Vanguard turns 75.
Armenian jazz pianist and producer, Levon "Malkhas"
Malkhasian, turns 65: an interview from Yerevan.
Hungarian Jazz Showcase: an overview. Mikhail Mitropolsky,
Radio Russia's jazz host, at 65: "An advanced listener." The
Empress of the Blues: Bessie Smith (from Cyril Moshkow's
forthcoming book, The Blues. Introduction to a History.) Young
scene: sax man Lenny Sendersky. In memoriam: George
Garanian, veteran of the 1960s Soviet jazz scene;
Vladimir Tunik, St.Petersburg's most wanted drummer...
#6/7-2009 released on December 12, 2009!
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On the cover: Russian jazz drummer Oleg Butman and his
partner in life and music, pianist Natalia Smirnova, celebrate
the release of Oleg's debut album as a leader, "Passion"
Jazz Travel: Jazz Scene of Washington, DC - an overview
Festivals reviewed: Jazz In Kiev, Belgrade Jazz Festival, Don
Chento Jazz in Kaliningrad, Russia
Russian jazz critique pioneer, Alexei Batashev, turns 75
In Memoriam: composer George Russell; Russian jazz band and
trumpet teacher, Eugene Savin
The First On The Path: Russian jazz musicology pioneer Valentina
Konen's centennial
Hawk & Prez: premiere jazz saxophonists of the 20th century
remembered
Interviewed: trumpet player Sergei Pron, bassist Anton Gorbunov,
saxophonist Alexei Kruglov, Russia's jazz education tycoon
Alexander Oseichuk, bassist Barry Guy
Russian Real Book in progress: Alexander Oseichuk's "For Elvin"
#4/5-2009 released on July 30, 2009!
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On the cover: Russian jazz pianist, Igor Bril, the godfather
of Russian jazz education, celebrates his 65th birthday while
listening to "BRILliant Jazz", a compilation of his music
performed by Russian jazz pianists - his former students
Jazz Travel: The Hague Jazz Festival, Netherlands; New Orleans
Jazz & Heritage Festival, Louisiana, U.S.A; 20th JazzKaar
Festival, Tallinn, Estonia
Russians Are Coming: Yuri Bashmet's orchestra and Igor Butman
Big Band tour the U.S. premier concert venues together
The Epoch Man: Sun Ra' 95 birthday -- Sun Ra Arkestra 2004 tour
in Russian Central Asia remembered
Butman Music: Russia's premier jazz sax man launches his own
record label
Benny Goodman: A Centennial of a Legend
"Idealism Is Very Practical": Patricia Nicholson-Parker
interviewed
Will Know: guitarist Hristo Vitchev
Moscow Concert Chronicles: 5th Le Jazz - the festival of French
jazz; the Digital Primitives interviewed before their
performance at Moscow's Dom; 6th Jazz.Estate outdoors festival
in Arkhangelskoye estate near Moscow
Young Scene: SymFusion Orchestra, Moscow; singer Yuliana
Rogachyova
In Memoriam: Russian jazz educators Mikhail Yesakov (1938-2009)
and Aleksandr Bannykh (1945-2009); guitarist Yuri Tikhomirov
(1951-2009)
JazzTimes: the end and the beginning?
Russian Real Book in progress: Alexei Tsiganov's "In The Middle
Of The East"
#2-2009 released on April 21, 2009!
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On the cover: renowned Russian composer/pianist Ivan
Farmakovsky releases «Next To The Shadow» featuring Ryan Kisor,
Igor Butman, Gene Jackson and Uggonna Okegvo
Jazz Travel: Festival Internacional Jazz Plaza, Havana, Cuba
Larry Appelbaum of the Library of the Congress speaks with
Radio Russia jazz host Mikhail Mitropolsky about the unearthed
archive gems
From "The Offering To Duke": we commemorate Duke Ellington's
110th birthday by printing, for the first time, one chapter
("Sacred Concerts") from the late Russian jazzology pioneer
Leonid Pereverzev's yet-unpublished lifetime work
Contact! -- Jazz.Ru's correspondent Zinaida Kartasheva visits
the Institute of Jazz Studies in Newark, NJ
Matthew Shipp interviewed in Moscow
1st Moscow Young Jazz Vocalists Competition
The Moscow Jazz & Blues Jam Sessions Guide
Dialogues: horn virtuoso Arkady Shilkloper discusses various
aspects of his work with Yekaterinburg jazz radio host Gennady
Sakharov
George Avakian turns 90
Young Scene: Roman Sokolov, sax/flute
Russian Real Book in progress: Valery Ponomarev's "I Was Afraid
You'd Never Call Me"
#1-2009 released on February 25, 2009!
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On the cover: composer/producer/bassist Alex Rostotsky
releases his album "Promenade with Mussorgsky" which embodies
the idea of finding the Russian jazz identity.
Birthdays/History: Joe Pass, Lonnie Johnnson, J.J.Johnson, Benny
Golson; Joshua Redman and James Carter a.k.a. The Young Lions
In the News: New jazz club opens on Arbat 10 in downtown Moscow;
Grammy's jazz nominees and winners; Blue Note at 70;
Interviewed: Ethan Iverson and Reid Anderson of The Bad Plus
discuss their newest album and tour while performing in Moscow;
Polish saxophonist Macej Koczynski reveals Christian spiritual
rooths of his music; Italian saxophonist Dimitri Grechi Espinoza
tells the story of his large-form jazz suite featuring
recitation by Amiri Baraka
Jazz Travels: 5th Jazz Globus Festival, Jerusalem, Israel - the
celebration of the Russian heritage in Israeli jazz
Kurt Gottshalk's New York Is Now column
In Memoriam: David Fathead Newman, Hank Crawford, Freddie
Hubbard
Young Scene: Muscovite baritone sax player Roman Sekachov
The Discreet Charm of Vinyl: more dusty grooves reviewed by
Gennady Petrov and Nikolay Shienok
History: Russian saxophone education pioneer Aleskandr Rivchun
(1914-1974) in the words of his son, jazz history professor
Boris Rivchun, composer Anatoly Kroll and the late Soviet jazz
advocate Yuri Saulsky
ISIM Improvisers' Forum in Denver: future envisioned
What Do We Play? - Yuri Chugunov's "Dedication to Chick" -- New
Ork-based pianist Misha Tsiganov continues his task of building
up the Russian Jazz Real Book
#8/9-2008
released on December 12, 2008!
(cover clickable)
On the cover: pianist Ahmad Jamal to headline the Triumph of
Jazz festival in Moscow
Special CD supplement for subscribers: MuzEnergo - the festival
collection
Jazz Calendar 2009
Jazz Festivals worldwide reviewed: MuzEnergo in Dubna (Moscow
Region), Jazz In Kiev (Ukraine), Belgrade Jazz Festival
(Serbia), Stockholm Jazz Festival (Sweden), Siberian Jazz Games
etc.
Interviewed: Marcus Miller, Stanley Clarke, Bobo Stenson
Legends of Soviet Jazz: vocalist Datevik Hovannesian; Gennady
Golstein, clarinet player, educator and bandleader
Birthdays: pianist Lyle Mays turns 55; drummer Gene Krupa would
be 100
Kurt Gottshalk's New York Is Now
Young scene: Makar Novikov, bass
In Memoriam: Neal Hefti; Dave McKenna
Listening Recommendations from bassist Avishai Cohen
Caught In The Act: Joe McPhee/Roy Campbell's dedication to
Albert Ayler in Moscow; Joe McPhee interviewed
Charles Gayle: in lieu of an interview
#7-2008
released on October 20, 2008!
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On the cover: Wayne Shorter turns 75!
Guitarist Alexey Kuznetsov celebrates his 50 years in jazz
Soviet jazz advocate, bandleader, and composer Yuri Saulski
remembered on the occasion of his 80th birthday
The Cannonball Story: Julian Adderley would be 80 this year
Jazz Travels: International Association of Schools of Jazz
meeting in Riga, Latvia
Worldwide Jazz Festivals Reviewed: Don Chento Jazz in
Kaliningrad (Western Russia), Black Sea Festival in Sochi
(Russia), Jazz at the Hermitage Garden (Moscow) etc.
Young scene: pianist Ivan Farmakovsky
What's The Problem Though? - musicians and critics continue to
discuss the current state of how improvisation is taught
Listening Recommendations from pianist George Colligan
Russian Real Book: NYC-based pianist Misha Tsiganov continues the Book of Russian Jazz Standards
project with Misha Piatigorsky's
"Uncommon Circumstance"
#6-2008
released on August 15, 2008!
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On the cover: Alexey Kuznetsov, Russian jazz guitar veteran,
celebrates his 50 years in jazz
Caught in the act: Bobby McFerrin in Moscow, John McLaughlin's
4th Dimension in Kaluga, Russia (concert review and interview),
What A Wonderful World Festival in Chelyabinsk, Jazz.Mansion
Festival in Arkhangelskoe Estate near Moscow
Birthdays: Eric Dolphy, Albert Mangelsdorff; Russian jazz
composer and educator Yuri Chugunov turns 70
National Jazz Scene: Ukraine
Neighboring Realms: modern classical percussion godfather in
Russia, Mark Pekarsky
In Memoriam: Hiram Bullock, Johnny Griffin, Bobby Durham,
Esbjorn Svensson
The Discreet Charm of Vinyl: more dusty grooves reviewed
Kurt Gottshalk's New York Is Now
Young scene: Peter (Pyotr) Vostokov, trumpet
#4/5-2008
released on June 6, 2008!
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On the cover: pianist Leonid Vintskevich presents his
international Russian-British-Swedish quartet and their freshest
release, Songs From The Black Earth.
Saxophonist Paul Winter's return to Russia: after 20 years, he
tours Russia with the famed Dmitry Pokrovsky Ensemble, reveals
his feelings in an extensive interview with Cyril Moshkow
Bobby McFerrin in his own words: Tatyana Balakirsky interviews
The Voice
R.I.P. IAJE
Birthdays: Bela Fleck, Philly Joe Jones, Lee Morgan, Paquito
D'Rivera
Neighboring Realms: modern classical percussion godfather in
Russia, Mark Pekarsky
In Memoriam: Jimmy Guiffre
The Discreet Charm of Vinyl: dusty grooves reviewed
Kurt Gottshalk's New York Is Now
Young scene: Perspectives and Problems of Student Big Bands
Jazzed People: photographer Peter Gannushkin (New York)
Jazz Travels: Jazz symposium in Poland
Discussed: Free music on a non-free scene
Russian Real Book: NYC-based pianist Misha Tsiganov starts to
build the Book of Russian Jazz Standards with Nick Levinovsky's
"Kind Of Red"
#3-2008
released on April 28, 2008!
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On the cover: Anatoly Kroll Russian jazz bandleader and
educator, celebrates his 6 th birthday
History Person: George Avakian
In Memoriam: producer Teo Macero
Birthdays: Jan Hammer, Carla Bley, Lionel Hampton, Maynard
Ferguson, Freddie Hubbard, Larry Coryell
Caught in the act: Dianne Schuur, Hendrik Meurkens, Sonore,
David Murray
Comeback: composer and brass player Guerman Lukianov releases
his new album after 20 years of silence
Kurt Gottshalk's New York Is Now
Soviet jazz legends: reedist Vladimir Sermakashev a.k.a. Vlad
West
Listening Recommendations from Al Jarreau
Caught in the act: William Parker Quartet, Al Jarreau, Eric
Marienthal, The Thing in Moscow and Mats Gustafsson personally -
in Vilnuis, Lithuania;
Interviewed: Swedish hew jazz reedist Mats Gustafsson, Austrian
saxophonist/educator Karlheinz Miklin
Remembered: Soviet jazz education pioneer Yuri Kozyrev
(1933-2006)
Celebrated: trumpeter Bix Beiderbecke's 105, pianist Maian
McPartland's 90, bandleader Thad Jones' 85, bandleader Quincy
Jones' 75 and saxophonist Charles Lloyd's 70
Reviewed: 8th Triumph of Jazz Festival (Moscow); Jazz Piano
Competition in Moscow
Recommended: guitarist Chuck Loeb shares his Desert Island picks
Wisdom Shared: Moscow-based drummers Sasha Mashin and Peter
Talalay discuss The Drummer's Fate
At A Glance: jazz photographer Vladimir Korobitsyn
In the 1st (10th) issue:
Jazz.Ru first anniversary celebration in Moscow: a hit!
Saxophonist Stas Grigoriev (1938-2002) remembered
Vilnius City Jazz 2007 Festival in Lithuania reviewed
Jazz Travels: Tatyana Balakirsky reviews the Christmas Jazz
Festival in Tallinn and Tartu, Estonia
Veteran saxophonist Alexey Kozlov continues his explorations of
the phenomenon of improvisation in his special column
Master class: Muscovite Drummers Sasha Mashin and Pyotr Talalay
discuss The Fate Of A Drummer
Guitarist Mike Stern turns 55
"God has everything": saxophonist and jazz club director Oleg
Kireyev interviewed
Violinist Tanya Kalmanovich in a discussion on jazz/non-jazz
topics with Yuri Lnogradski
A Father's Son Story: Bruce Raeburn of Hogan Jazz Archive in New
Orleans tells the story of his life, his father Boyd Raeburn,
and the Archive
In Memoriam: Oscar Peterson (1925-2007), Pete Candoli
(1923-2008)
Listening Recommendations by bassist WIlliam Parker and trumpet
player Lewis Barns
CD reviews
Veteran jazz critic Vladimir Feyertag kicks off his personal
column in the magazine by a discussion about the local jazz
scene in ancient Russian city of Yaroslavl with local jazz
promoter and enthusiast Igor Gavrilov
Introduce Yourself: vocalist Aleksandr Andreyev
Kurt Gottshalk's New York Is Now section
In the 8/9th double issue:
Igor Butman, Russia's Prime Sax Man,
Signs With Sony Classical; his debut album on the renowned
international label, Magic Land, features Chick Corea on piano,
John Patitucci on the bass, Jack DeJohnette on the drums (who
also produced the album), Stefon Harris on the vibes, and Randy
Brecker on trumpet
Marc Ribot in Moscow, as seen by our youngest writer Sergey
Bondarkov, 18
Alexander Oseichuk, Russia's jazz education tycoon, discusses
the good and the bad in Russian music education system with Anna
FIlipieva
Swedish filmmaker Kasper Collin tells the story of his
documentary "My Name Is Albert Ayler"
Bass guitar virtuoso Victor Bailey: a non-teacher's master
class, by Tatyana Balakirsky
Ken Vandermark Resonance Project in Eastern Europe, as seen in
Lviv, Ukraine
Strictly: Jazz - Serbian jazz enthusiasts successfully re-launch
the Belgrade Jazz Festival, once the biggest in Southeastern
Europe (reviewed by Cyril Moshkow)
Anatoly Vapirov turns 60: Mikhail Mitropolsky interviews the
Russian-Bulgarian new jazz and modern classical music veteran
Miroslav Vitious: a Bassist's Tale
Jazz Improvizacija: jazz piano competition in Vilnius, Lithuania
...and much more, including a CD
COMPILATION SUPPLEMENT "WHO WE WRITE ABOUT"!
In the 7th issue:
Joe Zawinul dies in Vienna: an overview of the great jazz rock
fusion pioneer's life, plus fragments of his interviews while in
Russia (2002-2003).
Dizzie's Cheeks and Trumpet: how the latter influenced the
development of the former, and how Dizzie's horn got twisted
Thelonious Monk and the role of Pannonica de Koeningswarter in
his life
Lithuanian composer, bandleader, and keyboard player Dainius
Pulauskas interviewed by Anna Filipieva
Archie Shepp in Moscow: and avant-gardist's look, by Andrey
Solovyov
Sax man Alexey Kozlov, the Soviet jazz veteran, launches his
bimonthly column
Drummer Paul Wertico discusses his teaching experience with
Cyril Moshkow: "Give Students A Chance"
Jazz in Global Imagination Conference at the Columbia University
in New York City: a panelist's report
...and more!
In the 6th issue:
Jazz.Ru kicks off an article exchange program with Jazz.Pt, our
Portuguese brothers-in-arms: Rui Eduardo Paes of Jazz.Pt
interviews reedist Ken Vandermark and bassist Adam Lane
Vocalist Kurt Elling interviewed by Tatyana Balakirsky
The Epoch Man: drummer Max Roach (1924-2007)
3rd Union of Composers Jazz Festival and Jazz at the Hermitage
Garden Festival in Moscow reviewed
Jazz Travel: Jazz em Agosto festival in Lisbon, Portugal
Azerbaijan jazz scene: an overview by Rovshan Sananoglu
Keith Jarrett: scandal in Peruggia
Drummer Lenny White shares his listening recommendations
Jazz Clinic: bassist Anton Revniouk shares his playing secrets
Siberian bandleader Vladimir Tolkachov discusses various aspects
of jazz musicianship
In Memoriam: Arkady Petrov, the doyen of Russian jazz critique
#5 released
in mid-August, 2007!
(cover clickable)
In the 5th issue:
Paul Nillsen-Love: the drummer we ought to know speaks up
Russian jazz vet Guerman Lukianov, 70, plays live on the
nationwide Culture Radio with his Kadans Millenium band
Jazz Mansion Festival in Archangelskoe Estate near Moscow:
trends, tendencies, and bassists headliners
Dizzy Gillespie All Stars tear Moscow audiences to pieces: how
did they do that (an analysis)
Moscow's Composers Union Club quickly makes it to the leadership
on Russian capital's club scene: Mikhail Mitropolsky tells how
Bassist Avishai Cohen: "There is nothing else I could ask for" -
an interview
Listening recommendations from trumpet player Paolo Fresu
The Man-Era: John Coltrane (1926-2007) - the chronology of a
Visionary life; the Soprano story, or how Trane acquired his
second horn
He could be 60 today: colleagues and pupils remember the great
bass player and educator, Anatole Sobolev
New & fresh: pianist Alexey Nadjarov and his NJazz band
30 years since the disastrous fire at the Rossiya Hotel in
Moscow: former hotel jazz band trumpet player Andrey Tovmasian
remembers the dreadful night of his own escape from the fire and
the death of bassist Ivan Vasenin
Jazz tourism: Radio Russia's jazz host Alexey Kolosov comes up
with the Russia-Poland Jazz Train idea
...and much more!
# 4, June-July, 2007
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Do what you do, and the rest is history: pianist and producer Daniil
Kramer reveals the secrets of his chain philharmonic concert
series franchise that covers half of Russia
Upcoming festival: Don Chento, Kaliningrad, the most Western
part of Russia
Jazz tourism: Jazzkaar 2007 festival in Tallinn, Estonia
Vets speaking: trumpet master SLava Guyvoronsky (on the cover)
turns 60
Caught in Russia: Leo Feigin (of Leo Records); drummer Adam
Nussbaum
Recommended Listening from trumpet player Claudio Roditi
Performance reviews: Billy Cobham & Alex Rostotsky in Moscow and
Voronezh; Mike Stern in Kyiv; Jazz over the Baikal Lake
(festival in Irkutsk); Russian Stars, World Jazz festival in
Moscow
Jazz Experience: Russian pianist Misha Tsiganov (Chico Freeman
group etc.) speaks about his story of incorporating himself in
New York City jazz scene
Young scene: meet the bunch of brilliant jazz pianists from the
Russian Academy of Music, introduced by their mentor, godfather
of Russian jazz education, People's Artist of Russia, Mr. Igor
Bril!
...and much more!
#3 available since
April 18, 2007!
(cover clickable)
In the 3rd issue:
Do what you do, and the rest is history: Sergey Belichenko,
the Siberian jazz producer, turns 60
Not only a performer: pianist and producer Daniil Kramer and his
computer games craze
Upcoming festival: MaMaKaBo
National jazz scenes: Jazz in the Netherlands, by Dmitry Ukhov
Vets speaking: Alexey Kozlov, godfather of Soviet jazz rock
fusion
The Man-Era: Reading A Legend: Toots Thielemans at 80
Recommended Listening from vocalist Anna Buturlina
Performance reviews: Vocal Zone Festiva; Triumph of Jazz
Festival in Moscow; Mark Soskin performs Sonny Rollins in Kyiv,
Ukraine
Jazz Experience: pianist Mikhail Kull presents fragments from
his forthcoming memories book "Grades of Ascension"
Young scene: meet the sensational vocal ensemble from the
ancient city of Kazan, Russia - The Jukebox Trio!
...and much more!
In the 2nd issue:
Do what you do, and the rest is history: Doc Skinner,
executive director of the Lionel Hampton International Jazz
Festival in 1976-2006; director emeritus, 2006-2007
Not only a performer: bassist, composer and artist Alex
Rostotsky presents his drawings
Upcoming festival: Triumph of Jazz, Moscow, 8th edition
National jazz scenes around Russia: Armenian Jazz approaches its
60th anniversary
Vets speaking: Moscow-born, LA-based - for sax man Alexei
Zoubov's 70th birthday
The Man-Era: Nine Incarnations of Mahavishnu - for John
McLaughlin's 65th birthday
Recommended Listening from horn virtuoso Arkady Shilkloper
Performance reviews: Particia Barber, Dee Dee Bridgewater,
Baltic Jazz Festival
Farewells: Michael Brecker, Alice Coltrane...
Russian jazz educators in America: "Three Weeks in JazzCatraz"
(2)
...and much more!
Jazz.Ru launched the first printed jazz magazine in
Moscow, proudly titled Jazz.Ru Magazine: #1 cover available!
(cover clickable)
The 1st issue has been presented at the Moscow House of
Journalists on December 16, 2006.
In the first issue:
Jazz Messenger Valery Ponomarev: new album, new book... and an
arm broken when the musician tried to protect his horn from the
rabid Paris airport police!
National jazz scenes around Russia: Lithuanian jazz overgrows
the initial impulse of Vilnius jazz school that lasted for three
decades
Jazz clubs in Moscow: a brief guide
Young scene: Vadim Neselovskyi (Gary Burton's Next Generation)
Russian jazz educators in America: "Three Weeks in JazzCatraz"
...and much more!
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Chick
Corea/Gary Burton Duo to perform in Tbilisi (Georgia,) Moscow
(Russia) and Kiev (Ukraine) during their 35th Anniversary
Crystal Silence Tour
