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Igor Butman Club
March 29, Monday
Igor Butman Big Band
Club's address: Tchistie Prudi, or Turgenevskaya metro station, Ulanskiy pereulok, 16 (in the building of "Ulanskaya" hotel)
To book a table, please call (495) 632-9264
The concerts start at 20.30
The best jazz orchestra of Russia. A ten and a half splendid jazz musicians. It s all about Igor Butman Big Band, which was founded 10 years ago by a renowned saxophone player Igor Butman and arranger Vitaly Dolgov. Since 1999 Big Band has frequently toured Russia, Europe, and the USA, appearing at the world s most prestigious jazz venues, including Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Birdland and others.
A special collaboration between Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra led by Wynton Marsalis and Igor Butman Big Band which opened 2003-04 season at Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York in September 2003 caused a sensation in the whole jazz world! New music by both bandleaders and arrangements of Russian folk songs concerts were premiered by two big bands. The New York Times called the performance of Igor Butman Big Band "a show of great competence and fluency."
The first Big Band's album Eternal Triangle featuring Randy Brecker was recorded in Moscow in August 2003 and engineered by the best American jazz sound engineer James Farber in November 2003 in New York. Eternal Triangle set a very high level of performance and quality of sound for all Russian jazz. The proof for this is that the music from Eternal Triangle was on air of many US jazz radio stations even before the album was released!
Internationally renowned jazzmen were excited by performing with Igor Butman Big Band, among them are Dee Dee Bridgewater, New York Voices , Kevin Mahogany, George Benson, Gino Vanelli, Wynton Marsalis, Larry Corryell, Billy Cobham, Bill Evans. Joe Lovano, Gary Burton, Toots Thielemans.
Igor Butman Big Band and a great Russian singer Larisa Dolina created a jazz extravaganza «Carnival of Jazz», and toured Russia, Ukraine, Israel and the USA with this program. In 2003 a double album «Carnival of Jazz» recorded live at «Rossiya» concert hall was released. The premiere of a new program «Carnival of Jazz 2. No comments» was held in July, 2008 at Jazz at Lincoln Center within JVC jazz festival and caused a stir among jazz lovers: Rose Theatre hardly seated all comers!
Igor Butman, the leader of the Big Band, enjoys pushing the boundaries of jazz mainstream and create crossover projects. Big Band often tours with American pianist and composer Igor Raykhelson, «Grammy» winning altoist Yuri Bashmet and his chamber ensemble «Moscow Soloists». A big tour with these remarkable musicians is scheduled for February and March 2009.
Igor Butman Big Band s brand new album will soon be released! On this CD the Band featuring a very special guest Wynton Marsalis plays music by an outstanding composer and pianist Nikolay Levinovsky.
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