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19:00 | Antti Sarpila Swing Band (Finland) |
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"Only Jazz" series. The band of Antti Sarpila (clarinet and saxophones, composing and arranging), one of the few internationally known jazz musicians from Finland. Although based in Helsinki, he performs extensively as a solo artist all over the world. During his career, Antti has performed on numerous jazz festivals and concerts all over Europe, USA, Asia and as far as in Australia. Despite his young age he had the honor to play with such late giants as Doc Cheatham, Wild Bill Davison, Vic Dickenson, Panama Francis, Frank Wess, Bob Haggart. In Finland Antti has his own group, the Antti Sarpila Swing Band, which celebrated it's 30th anniversary in 2012. When not keeping his own band busy, he performs regularly as a solo artist with different small groups, big bands as well as symphony orchestras. Finnish jazz federation has awarded Antti with a highly respected "George Award" and Classic Jazz Society with the "Louis Armstrong Award".
Tchaikovsky Concert Hall  |
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The orchestra of Galina Vishnevskaya Opera Center, Yurlov State Academic Choir of Russia (Artistic Director - Honored Artist of Russia, Professor Gennady Dmitryak) perform Requiem by Mozart, the most famous works by Salzburg genius. Veiled with bleak legends and permeated with the mournful sorrow, Requiem, anyway, ease the souls of the public and fills them with the shining light, just as all of Mozart works. Music, written upon a canonical text of a funeral service, vividly depicts human soul's experience in the face of the God: holy trembling and repentance and a lucid hope for God' merciful love. Jaroslav Tkalenko (Russia) conducts.
Roman Catholic Cathedral of Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary |
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20:00 | Peter Brötzmann (Germany), Paul Nielsen (Norway), Steve Swell (USA) |
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The trio of Peter Brötzmann (tenor saxophone, Germany), Steve Swell (trombone, USA) and Paul Nielsen (drums, Norway) will perform their free jazz program in Dome, and it will be only their fourth concert together. And if Brötzmann and Nielsen have been in Moscow in past years the American Steve Swell will visit Russian capital in the first time and will play with Peter for the first time too. Peter Brötzmann is one of the most important and uncompromising figures in free jazz and has been at the forefront of developing a unique, European take on free improvisation since the 1960s. Brötzmann first trained as a painter and was associated with Fluxus (participating in various events and working as an assistant to Nam Jun Paik) before dissatisfaction with the art world moved his focus towards music. However he continued to paint and his instantly recognisable visual sensibility has produced some of our favourite LP sleeves as well as a number of gallery shows in recent years. Self-taught on clarinet and saxophone, Brötzmann established himself as one of the most powerful and original players around, releasing a number of now highly sought after sides of musical invention including the epochal Machine Gun session in 1968 - originally released on his own Brötzman private press and later recordings for Free Music Production, the label he started with Jost Gebers. Brötzmann\'s sound is \"one of the most distinctive, life-affirming and joyous in all music\" and he has performed with almost all of the major players of free music from early associations with Don Cherry and Steve Lacy to regular groupings with Peter Kowald, Alex Von Slippenbach, Han Bennink and Fred Van Hove, the Chicago Tentet. Born in Newark, NJ, Steve Swell has been an active member of the NYC music community since 1975. He has toured and recorded with many artists from mainstreamers such as Lionel Hampton and Buddy Rich to so called outsiders as Anthony Braxton, Bill Dixon, Cecil Taylor and William Parker. He has over 40 CDs as a leader or co-leader and is a featured artists on more than 100 other releases. He runs workshops around the world and is a teaching artist in the NYC public school system focusing on special needs children. Swell has worked on music transcriptions of the Bosavi tribe of New Guinea for MacArthur fellow, Steve Feld in 2000. His CD, Suite For Players, Listeners and Other Dreamers (CIMP) ranked number 2 in the 2004 Cadence Readers Poll. He has also received grants from USArtists International in 2006, MCAF (LMCC) awards in 2008 and 2013 and has been commissioned twice on the Interpretations Series at Merkin Hall in 2006 and at Roulette in 2012. Steve was nominated for Trombonist of the Year 2008 & 2011 by the Jazz Journalists Association, was selected Trombonist of the Year 2008-2010 , 2012 and 2014 by the magazine El Intruso of Argentina and received the 2008 Jubilation Foundation Fellowship Award of the Tides Foundation. Steve has also been selected by the Downbeat Critics Poll in the Trombone category from 2010-2014. Paal Nilssen-Love is a Norwegian drummer active in the jazz and free jazz genres. He was raised at a jazz club in Stavanger, run by his mother, and his father, who was also a drummer. He did musical studies at Sund folkehogskole 1993-1994. In 1994, during studies on the Jazz program at the Trondheim Musikkonservatorium (1994-1996), he formed the band Element which musically became a platform for several other groups with bassist Ingebrigt Haker Flaten and pianist Havard Wiik and led to collaborations with Iain Ballamy and Chris Potter. Relocating to Oslo in 1996, he took part in the forming of bands like Hakon Kornstad Trio, The Quintet and Frode Gjerstad Trio, as well as self-initiated projects and collaborations with Swedish musicians such as pianist Sten Sandell and saxophonist Mats Gustafsson. In 1999, Nilssen-Love played his first solo concert.
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 Originally formed in Yorkshire, England, in 1966, Smokie hit the British pop charts several times during the late '70s with updated psychedelic pop, influenced by the band's stay on Mickie Most's Rak Records as well as the writers of most of the band's hit material, Rak's Nicky Chinn and Mike Chapman. Vocalist Chris Norman, bassist Terry Utley, and guitarist Alan Silson had played in the Elizabethans, but formed the band Kindness in 1968, with the addition of drummer Pete Spencer. The quartet recorded many singles during the late '60s and early '70s, but failed to show any chart activity until 1975. That year, signed to Rak Records and billed as Smokey, the band hit number three in the U.K. with "If You Think You Know How to Love Me." After another Top Ten hit, "Don't Play Your Rock 'n' Roll to Me," Smokey became Smokie; during 1976, the group scored with three Top 20 hits, including the number five "Living Next Door to Alice." Smokie hit number five both in 1977 ("It's Your Life") and 1978 ("Oh Carol"), but the band's chart run ended by early 1980, and following 1982's Midnight Delight, they disbanded. Both Spencer and Norman continued to work at Rak during the '80s, writing hits for several groups; they re-formed Smokie in 1988, resurfacing with the LP My Heart Is True. Two more albums, All Fired Up and Greatest Hits Live, followed, with the group remaining active throughout the 1990s, issuing new material as well as a number of hits collections. In February 2015 it will be 50th anniversary of Smokie's first concert in Burkinshaw school (1965). "If You Think You Know How to Love Me", "Don't Play Your Rock'n'Roll to Me", "Something's Been Making Me Blue", "Wild Wild Angels", "I'll Meet You At Midnight", "Living Next Door to Alice", "Lay Back in the Arms of Someone", "Needles and Pins" will be peformed by Smokie and their guests from famous Russian ensembles and singers. More info
Crocus City Hall |
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