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October, 24 (Saturday), 7 p.m. SymFusion Orchestra (Russia)
Moscow International House of Music
In 2009 CityJazz will be held for the 4th time. Festival headliner this year is fabulous Marcus Miller. As a child, Miller was around music a lot and always fooling around on the piano: His father played piano and organ (mainly in church). At the age of eight Miller began playing the recorder, and the clarinet at age ten at the public schools he attended. In middle school, he learned to play the saxophone as well. As a teenager, Miller began to play bass in some funk bands in his neighborhood, learning about funk and grooves, and relating to people with music. Miller spent approximately 15 years performing as a sideman or session musician and observing how great bandleaders operated. During that time he also did a lot of arranging and producing. During the late seventies he was a member of the Saturday Night Live band from 1978 through 1979. He played on over 500 recordings, including those by Luther Vandross, Grover Washington Jr., Roberta Flack, Carly Simon, McCoy Tyner, Bryan Ferry and Billy Idol. He won the "Most Valuable Player" award, (awarded by NARAS to recognize studio musicians) three years in a row and was subsequently awarded "player emeritus" status and retired from eligibility. In the nineties, Miller began to record his own records, he had to put a band together to take advantage of touring opportunities. In 1981 Marcus Miller was invited to join re-union band of his childhood dream musician Miles Davis. Later on, in 1986, Miller wrote "Tutu" album for Miles Davis and played all musical instruments on the record. In 2007 Marcus Miller visited Russia for the first time to play at the biggest jazz open-air festival "Usadba.Jazz" in manor Archangelskoe. It was a great success which made it possible for Miller to come back one year later with The Thunder!Tour (together with Stanley Clarke and Victor Wooten) for a sold out show. And now Marcus Miller's back again! In the framework of world-tour Tutu Revisited - The Music of Miles Davis he will have a huge performance at Moscow International House of Music together with wonderful trumpet player Christian Scott from New Orleans. Marcus Miller - bass, clarinet, Christian Scott - trumpet, Alex Han - saxophone, Federico Gonzalez Pena - keyboard, Ronald Bruner - drums
Also David Fiuczynski will come to the stage of the festival. Iconoclastic and prolific jazz-rock guitarist David ‘Fuze' Fiuczynski, a jazz player who"doesn't want to play just jazz", has been hailed by the world press as an incredibly inventive guitar hero, who continues to deliver with music that is unclassifiable, challenging and invigorating. An innovative musician who has released nine CD's and a double live DVD, Fuze is best known as the leader of the Screaming Headless Torsos. David will play with Russian band Nikolaj Moiseenko Project. The leader of the project is a brilliant young saxophonist Nikolay Moiseenko. Nikolay started playing saxophone at the age of 8 and his passion to music was highly supported by his family. In 1998 Nikolay got accepted to the Russian Academy of Music to study with Aleksander Oseichuk, who was a great influence. In 2002 he completed his Master Degree in performance at Russian Academy of Music named after Gnesins. By that time he was performing with Igor Butman big band, Oleg Butman, Oleg Lundstrem big band, Nikolay Arutyunov,Debora Brown, Inaya Day, Andrey Kondakov, Cher-ta. In 2002 he became a member of one of the most successful Moscow funk/jam bands "Sunlight". In 2003 Nikolay won the all-Russian Young Jazz Performers Competition among sax players. In 2004 Nikolay was awarded a scholarship to Berklee College of Music and moved to Boston in 2005. He studies with George Garzone, Dave Fiuczynski, Dave Samuels, Herb Pomeroy among others. Nikolay performed with Dave Fiuczynski, Kenwood Dennard, Daniel Sadovnik, Me'shell N'degeocello,Paolo Lattanzi,Maxim Lubarsky band, Steve Jenkins, Scoota Warner, Marcus Miller, Galactic. SymFusion Orchestra project - Grand Prix winner of "Usadba.Jazz 2009" young jazz musicians contest - will also join festival program.
October,
23 (Friday), 9 p.m. FROM RIO WITH LOVE is the program presented by The Brazilian Embassy in Russia and Igor Grigoriev, ex-editor-in-chief of the legendary OM magazine and presently a refined chansonnier. Igor Grigoriev will perform with saxophone player, composer and producer Leo Gandelmann (Brazil).
Saxophonist, producer, composer and arranger,
music has always been present in Leo
Gandelman's life. Son of a classic pianist and a conductor, at 15 years old
he was already a Soloist with the Brazilian Symphony Orchestra. Besides having Recently Leo won two prices as best Film Score with the soundtrack of the movie "Garrincha, A Estrela Solitária ".
October, 22 (Thursday), 9 p.m. Guru Groove Foundation
DJ Ivan Yasykov Funky Groove Day - a jazz party which unites the most outstanding young jazz musicians. Some of them are already stars of local clubs, some are prize-winners of contests and completions, some merely started not so long ago. Mark Yusim was born in Glazov (Udmurtia). He is a graduate of Sverdlov academy of music named after P.Chaikovsky and now he is studying in the Russian academy of music named after the Gnesins. Mark is a Grand Prix winner of the international "Constellation" contest (2009) and he is a second prize winner of the All-Russian jazz song contest (2009). The Wailing Wall in Jerusalem has made a deep impression on Mark. The singer dreams of making his own recording studio. He enjoys playing the piano, translating English lyrics and watching the concerts of the most popular musicians on DVD player. Mark likes watching football. He dreams of singing with Sting or Al Jarreau on stage "to try to be the same level with them". Mark will perform with Big Beat Band. Guru Groove Foundation plays a mix of soul, funk, acid-jazz, house, lounge. They produce contemporary sound where electronic music interweaves into acoustic instruments sound. This music is a magical mystery tour to the world of contemporary music. Tatiana Barnysheva the leading vocalist of the band charms the audience with her neo-romantic presentation. Tatiana Barnysheva - vocal, Egor Shamanin - saxophone, EWI, Gennadij Lagutin - vocal, programming, Boris Ionov - drums, Salman Abuev - trumpet, Anton Chumachenko - bass, programming, Yuriy Topchiy - guitar, Artashes Aslanyan - keyboard DJ Иван Языков - is a famous Moscow dj, artist and drummer. He will play a crazy funky set with live trumpet player.
Off-programm
October, 23 (Friday), 9 p.m.
October, 23 (Friday), 9 p.m.
October, 25 (Sunday), 7 p.m.
Big Beat Jam
October, 28-29, 8.30 p.m.
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