International festival “Aqua Jazz” went over with a bang in Sochi!
Check out Igor’s latest interview for Jazz Inside Magazine at Press page!
Igor Butman, saxophone virtuoso and bandleader, is Russia’s number one jazz personality today. Born in 1961 in Leningrad (now St.Petersburg), Igor Butman started playing the clarinet at the age of 11. In 1976 he entered the Rimsky-Korsakov College of Music, where during his second year he dropped classical clarinet for jazz saxophone. In the mid-eighties Igor started playing in renowned Soviet jazz bands: Oleg Lundstrem’s Big Band, and “Allegro”, and soon after that received wide recognition in the USSR. Igor became known as the best tenor saxophonist, placing first in the Soviet Critics’ polls and recorded some albums for the “Melodiya” label. After Igor Butman immigrated to the USA in 1987, he went on to Major in Performance and Composition at Berklee College of Music.
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May 24, 2010, MIPAC, Svetlanovsky
Hall. May 25,2010, Igor Butman Club
Igor Butman Big Band feat. Peter Bernstein (guitar)/USA, Sean Jones (trumpet)/USA, James Burton (trombone)/USA, Kathy Jenkins (vocal)/USA presented a new concert program “Sheherezade” within X Open Festival of Arts “Chereshnevyi Les” at Moscow International Performing Arts Center and at Igor Butman Club on May 24 & 25, 2010!
Legendary saxophone player and Grammy award winner Gary Bartz and his band performed at Svetlanovsky hall of Moscow International Performing Arts Center on April 25, 2010 within “Igor Butman presents” series! Igor hit the stage with Bartz’s Band as a special guest.
Igor Butman presents 2 new releases of his recording label Butman Music! They’re “Passion” by drummer Oleg Butman (feat. Mark Gross, Wayne Escoffery, Essiet Essiet & Natalya Smirnova) and “Take Me With You” by trumpeter Aexander Berenson (feat. Cyrus Chestnut, Essiet Essiet, Igor Butman & Donald Edwards). Click the covers of the CDs to go to internet store. All Butman Music releases are also avialable at iTunes Store!
Grandiose 10th “Triumph of Jazz” festival took place in Moscow!
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!
Enjoy photo report from “Triumph of Jazz-2010” by Gulnara Khamatova and Vladimir Korobitsyn at “Pics” pages.
Igor Butman was elected to Higher Political Council of “United Russia”
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.
Larisa Dolina and Igor Butman Big Band present:
Carnival of Jazz 2 - Live in Saint Petersburg
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!
New albums of Igor Butman Big Band and Vadim Eilenkrig out now!
First two releases of “Butman Music” label are already available at amazon.com! Please click the covers to go to the internet store.
Add Igor Butman as a friend!
Igor Butman registered with MySpace and Facebook! Now you got a unique chance to speak to Igor directly – he will answer your questions weekly!
International festival “Aqua Jazz” went over with a bang in Sochi!
Legendary saxophone player and Grammy award winner Gary Bartz and his band performed at Svetlanovsky hall of Moscow International Performing Arts Center on April 25, 2010 within “Igor Butman presents” series! Igor hit the stage with Bartz’s Band as a special guest.
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.
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.
