Schedule for Igor Butman is: XIV International Festival "Triumph of Jazz" 2022

Dave Holland, bass and his trio (USA)

Anna Maria YOPEK vocals and her band (Poland)

Igor Butman, saxophone

 

 

Igor Butman to festivals can count the years of the new millennium. XIV «Triumph of Jazz" in 2014, as always at the end of winter in Moscow gathers musicians of the highest rank.

 

The most important holiday - the fans of the saxophone. In Moscow perform eminent alto saxophonist and composer Rudresh Mahanhappa, Indian, begot in Italy and living in the USA. He received a thorough jazz education in America, but his style found in their historic homeland. The fact that both plays and Mahanhappa no banal "exoticism", jazz techniques subtly combined with the features of classical Indian music, creating whimsical and sophisticated mixed. For this peculiarity it repeatedly noted international prizes and scholarships.

 

No less interesting is represented at the festival jazz vocals. Polish singer Anna Maria Yopek amazes his fans omnivorous. She feels equally free, performing jazz, folk and pop music. Easy and gentle voice, appearance model and artistry made her the most prominent figure of modern jazz in Poland. American guitarist, multiple Grammy winner Pat Metheny after speaking with Yopek spared no enthusiastic words, "She - amazing, she - is unusual, it is - a rare musician. She has no equal, shining in his works, like a diamond! ". Their joint album Upojenie (2005) quickly became the gold. Singer Johnny Rodgers - Broadway star, songwriter, pianist. Along with Johnny Rodgers Band, he toured the Middle East, North Africa, Southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands.