Grandiose 10th “Triumph of Jazz” festival took place in Moscow!
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Grandiose 10th “Triumph of Jazz” festival took place in Moscow! It’s no mere chance that “Culture” federal TV channel called “Triumph-2010” “the festival of decade”: on February 3-7, 2010 the producer of the fest, saxophone player Igor Butman presented jazz super stars from all over the world on the stages of Igor Butman Club (www.le-club.ru) and Svetlanovsky Hall of MIPAC (www.mmdm.ru)! The all-star line-up featured McCoy Tyner Trio with a special guest Gary Bartz (saxophone), Mike Stern Band with Dave Weckl (drums) and Tom Kennedy (bass), vocalists Carmen Lundi and Chanda Rule. Lionel Loueke Trio, Chihiro Yamanaka Trio, Igor Butman Big Band, Oleg Butman Trio, Ivan Farmakovsky Quintet, Vintskevich-Taylor Quartet and “Academic Band” jazz orchestra lead by Anatoly Kroll.
Igor Butman promises a no less impressive cast of participants at “Triumph of Jazz-2011”! Keep up with news at our site!
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Igor Butman Quartet became the headliners of 12th Bielska Zadymka Jazzowa festival
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Igor Butman Quartet, Dee Dee Bridgewater, and McCoy Tyner Trio feat. Gary
Bartz became the headliners of 12th Bielska Zadymka Jazzowa festival which
took place on Febrauary 3-7, 2010 in Bielsko-Biala (Poland).
IBQ's performance at opening of the fest earned high praise from famous jazz
musicians and journalists. Translation of the articles from Polish mass
media will be published here soon. In the meantime we offer you Igor's
photos made at the concert and at the studio of Radio Katowice.
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February touring of Igor Butman: from Havana to Vancouver!
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Russia will become a honorary guest of 19th Havana international book fair in Cuba (February 11-21). Russian delegation includes Igor Butman Quartet which will perform at the opening of the fair at San Carlos de la Cabana fortress and give some concerts in Havana on February 11-13. Igor Butman also promised to make up improvised performances with his Cuban colleagues on streets of Havana.
After the Cuban tour Igor Butman Quartet will fly to Canada to take part in the opening of Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver. Musicians will perform for Russian Olympic team at Russian House on February 17-29!
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Igor Butman was elected to Higher Political Council of “United Russia”
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Igor Butman was elected to Higher Political Council of “United Russia” at the party’s XI congress at St Petersburg. “I entered the party taking up the call of Vladislav Surkov, the First Deputy Head of Administration of President. Being a close friend of mine he told that it would nice if I could enter the party and carry out some projects if it didn’t run counter to my views. As an active person I told him I would try... But we agreed that if something contradicted my mind I would leave “UR”... After taking part in “UR”’s federal forum “Strategy-2020” and expressing my opinion, I realized that you could change something, solve some problems being a member of the party,” - Butman said to Vzglyad.ru.
At the end of 2009 Igor with the support of “UR” started the forum “Music and Time”. The first two sessions of the forum were held in Moscow in November and December 2009. The first one was dedicated to jazz music, the second – to classical music, both featured top Russian jazz and classical musicians respectively and the representatives of federal authorities including members of State Duma and Council of Federation. During these meetings musicians were given the first chance to discuss some daunting problems of Russian culture with the people in power! And it brought some appreciable results! For instance, the discussion about the lack of musical education in primary and secondary schools resulted in “Music lessons at school” project supervised by Igor Butman. The project will be implemented this year.
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Larisa Dolina and Igor Butman Big Band present:
Carnival of Jazz 2 - Live in Saint Petersburg
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Moscow 2002, Larisa Dolina along with Igor Butman Big Band launched an exciting musical project – “Carnival of Jazz”. The Premiere of "Carnival of Jazz" took place at the Rossyia Concert Hall in April 2002 and became one of the most significant musical events of the year. Musicians had a triumphant concert tour with “Carnival of Jazz” having full houses not only in Russia but also in the USA, Germany and Israel. “A brilliant cooperation of two stars, infinitely loving jazz and mastering all facets of jazz improvisation with an amazing skill, as if they could read each other’s mind,” musical critics from all over the world said. “Carnival of Jazz” was nominated for the State Award in the field of culture and arts.
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In December!
New Joint Album by Larisa Dolina & Igor Butman Big Band
“Carnival of Jazz 2 – Live in Saint Petersburg”
At all music stores!
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New albums of Igor Butman Big Band and Vadim Eilenkrig out now!
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First two releases of “Butman Music” label are already available at amazon.com! Please click the covers to go to the internet store.
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Add Igor Butman as a friend!
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Igor Butman registered with MySpace and Facebook! Now you got a unique chance to speak to Igor directly – he will answer your questions weekly!
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Presentation of new label “Butman Music”
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The presentation of Igor Butman’s recording label “Butman Music” took place on June 4, 2009 at Svetlanovsky (Big) Hall of Moscow International Performing Arts Center. Mr. Butman introduced the very first two releases of his label: “Moscow @ 3 am” by Igor Butman Big Band presenting music of a great Russian composer Nick Levinovsky and “The Shadow Of Your Smile” by Igor Butman Big Band’s soloist, trumpeter Vadim Eilenkrig , a modern jazz album recorded with the members of the legendary The Brecker Brothers – trumpeter Randy Brecker, bassist Will Lee, guitarist Hiram Bullock, drummer Chris Parker, and the musical director of George Benson, keyboardist David Garfield. The presentation featured live sets of Igor Butman Big Band and Vadim Eilenkrig Quintet (Russia–USA) with very special guests: Nick Levinovsky (piano, keyboards), Victor Bailey (bass guitar), Matt Stevens (guitar) and Rodney Holmes (drums). Igor Butman and American stars also performed at a club presentation of Vadim Eilenkrig’s album at Igor Butman Club on June 3.
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Nick Levinovsky and Igor Butman Big Band |
Vadim Eilenkrig |
Victor Bailey |
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New album of Igor Butman "Magic Land" is available at www.amazon.com!
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 In December 2007 Sony Classical released Igor Butman’s CD “Magic Land” feat. Chick Corea (piano), John Patitucci (double bass) and Jack DeJohnette (drums).
“In late November of 2005 I received a call from Igor Butman from Moscow, asking if I would produce and play on a recording for him in January 2006 in New York.
After listening to Igor’s playing I was happy to participate in the project which was around the music of well known Russian cartoons.
Making the project even more exciting was the addition of some of the most incredible musicians around, Chick Corea, John Patitucci, Randy Brecker and Stefon Harris who all contributed to the music on the highest level and I am really grateful to them all.
To help us get into the mood we all watched the original versions of the cartoons supplied by Igor’s wife Oksana and it helped a lot.
I love Igor’s warm, robust tenor and his lush, full-bodied sound on soprano. He knows how to swing hard and how to leave space, but most importantly he knows how to play a beautiful ballad.
I really had fun and enjoyed doing this project, as well as playing with such great musicians the melodies themselves were very appealing and stay with you for a long time.
Thank you to all of those involved including the great engineer James Farber.”
Jack DeJohnette
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