Ganelin Trio
Israel / Russia
Time
2014.10.22 22:10 – 22:55
Venue
B10 Live, North District of OCT-LOFT
Artists
Slava Ganelin – Piano
Alexey Kruglov – Saxophone
Oleg Yudanov – Drums
Slava Ganelin
Vyacheslav (Slava) Ganelin, honored as the father of Russian new music, is a virtuoso and a musician of tremendous versatility. Apart from the Ganelin Trio he developed a solo career. This is what Nat Hentoff wrote about him in “The Wall Street Journal”: “Mr. Ganelin is a romantic pianist, a devotee of dramatic atmospheric effects – from the mysterious and eerie to thunderbolts from the soul. Above his piano keyboard are two small electronic synthesizers, one adding treble dimensions and the other allowing Mr. Ganelin deep and wide play among the ranges of the bass. It’s fun to see a musician having so much pleasure in the scope of his resources.”
Ganelin’s first solo album, released in Spring of 1987, received excellent reviews, with all the reviewers underlining his immaculate structures, imagination, textures, taste, etc. As John Fordham put it in the “Guardian”: “He’s a musician of great resourcefulness and some of his straight melodic piano playing is elegant and eloquent.”
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Alexey Kruglov
Alexey Kruglov is a saxophonist, composer and theater-producer.
His ideas in the field of new art led him to create an original system of image personification in the space of sounds. In spite of being a jazzman and ANTI jazzman, a classic and avant-garde musician, he stands by a clear path in his work.
Alexey Kruglov got a brilliant primary, higher and post-graduate education in both music and theatre. He is a winner of some prestigious competitions and constantly collaborates with prominent musicians and theatre actors.
He literally rushed in the jazz world in 2000, shocking the audience with performances of his “Krugly Band”. But he doesn’t forget about traditions, giving concerts of classical music too.
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Oleg Yudanov
The unique drummer’s masterly improvisations are known by fans of the jazz on 4 continents. The musician with a world name, whose creative interests stretch from modern classical music to the vanguard jazz, from folklore to theatrical performances which it shows in Paris.
Till 1993 his jazz activity was connected with Arkhangelsk jazz group led by Vladimir Rezitskim which was one of leaders of the first jazz in Russia and acted in America, Europe, and Japan. Participates in various projects with known musicians: Sergey Manukyan, Vladimir Miller, guitarist Tim Dorofeyev, with pianist Igor Volodin and tenor saxophonist Vasily Katyshev.
The London firm Leo Records let out 10 albums with Oleg Yudanov’s participation.
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