В конце марта в Одессе, в кабинете радушного хозяина встречи, доктора юридических наук, профессора, ректора Международного гуманитарного университета Анатолия Крыжановского, собралась инициативная группа для обсуждения нового авторского проекта Михаила Фрейдлина — «Мастер-Джем-Фестиваль». На этой встрече обсуждалась основная «фишка» конкурса, отличительная черта, делающая проект уникальным, — «Мастер-Джем Фестиваль»

Justin van Uum (1989) is a bass player from Maastricht, the Netherlands. He graduated in 2012 for his bachelor electric bass guitar from the Maastricht conservatory. He studies with A. Boerner, and had also side subject double bass from Philippe Aerts. The study also included combo lessons with Claudius Valk, Frank Giebels en Ron van [...]

So what can I say about myself? At present time I study in the Netherlands in Prince Claus Conservatory. I like different kinds of music. Mostly I play jazz but I used to play reggae, pop music, etc. I participated in the John Clayton project in the Netherlands. It was an unforgettable experience for me. [...]

Odessa is a multi-cultural, multi-religious city with more than one million inhabitants and with European traditions. The city occupies a unique place in the post-Soviet space and among the Black Sea countries. Here Odessa rightly called «the capital of jazz». It was she (Odessa) who gave birth to the first jazz orchestras. Jazz continues to show momentum in large-scale jazz festivals in our days. Jazz is actively [...]

«My name is Mark Rosen. I am 42, married and father of two children. I am a senior saxophone player, playing tenor saxophone, alto and soprano. I started playing at the age of 16. I learned in the Conservatory and continued studying with the best teachers in Israel. I participated in many television shows, festivals [...]

“ I’ve played the piano since I was 4,5 years old. When I was 7 I started playing drums and a trumpet, but the drums “won”. Now I’m playing in various ensembles and in the school orchestra held by Andrey Machnev. My drums teacher is Grigory Deratsuev. I participated in the competition “Don Chento” in [...]

Taras Kuznetsov has been absorbed with jazz music since his childhood, though he wasn't limited himself by the classical jazz of 20’s. In process of musical growth he was acquainted with creativity of such masters of jazz music as Joe Zawinul, Keith Jarrett, Chick Corea, Oscar Peterson, Bill Evans, Mike Stern, Michael Brecker, groups Weather [...]

“I am an alto-saxophonist. In 2012 I finished Donetsk State Musical Academy as a saxophonist, jazz faculty. I have participated in jazz festivals-contests and jam-sessions in Ukraine, Russia and Poland.”

I am a jazz pianist and former classical pianist. I studied in Berklee college of music in 1989-1991. I play jazz and Latin jazz and teach piano. I am also an arranger and owner of a big recording studio.

My name is Dmitriy Zhirnov (Ukraine, 1990). “I play guitar since I was 7. I’m the finalist of the guitar competitions Boss War 2010 and Molotkov's 2012 Competition, the winner of the internet-competition among the CIS guitar players SCHECTER SHRED 2012, which was carried out by the group VK "Guitarist" which has about 200000 subscribers. [...]

Trombone and bass player from Israel. Lived and studied in NY from 1999 to 2005. Played among others with Bobby Sanabria, Salsa Picante, Charlie Percip Big Band, Joe Deninzon and the band Stratusphirious, Alex Sckolnik, Smalls Big Band and Jason Linder, Matt Miller Big Band and many more. Сurrently lives in Israel and playes both [...]

Odessa became not only the well-known capital of humor but also the capital of jazz thanks to Leonid Utyosov and his «Tea-jazz» in Soviet times.   Do not rush to answer the question «Where jazz was born?» May have your answer will be very far from the truth.

Lyubomir is a graduate-master of Lviv state musical academy named after M. Lysenko, ideological co-leader of groups "Dzyga Imagine" and "Green Silence" and also a member of numerous projects of jazz-rock-electronic genres. In the past he was a member of several projects and groups (“DNK”, “Sunrise”, “Roman Rak Big-band”, "Lu’co’mbo", bandsman of municipal orchestra of [...]

Alexey Samarin is a talented Russian pianist and composer, who takes direct part in Russian jazz music development. In 1997 Alexey formed a funk band «Sool Food». After moving to Moscow the band was renamed into «Alexey Samarin Band». At present the band performs only original songs written by Alexey. In 2002 he recordered an [...]

Wissam Arram is a percussionist, playing darbuka, an Arabic ethnic drum. He has been playing this instrument for 26 years. In the middle of his career when he already perfectly played all kinds of Arabic music he went to Florida (USA) to take his instrument to a new direction. He learned how to play Latin [...]

“My name is Amiram. I’m 45 years old. I play saxophone since I was 12. I’m a professional Jazz musician and I played in a lot of festivals here in Israel and sometimes I go to Europe to perform there. I have 3 children. I live in Kyriat Tivon. I’m a professional musician.”

Пианистка, закончила Львовскую музыкальную академию. Всю жизнь импровизирую, пишу музыку, стихи, рисую портреты. Джаз — мой любимый стиль. Люди, у которых следует учиться этому особенному искусству для меня — Стивен Вандер, Уитни Хьюстон, Лариса Долина.

Tamara was born in Odessa.Since she was a child she was surrounded with the sounds of music and that is no suprice,because both of her parents are musicians,sibcerely devoted to the music. From 2003-2007 Tamara was studying in the Musical College in Odessa (jazz vocal and piano) Already in spring of the 2008 the band [...]

“I play cello in musical projects, participate in different musical festivals of Ukraine and abroad. I finished Kharkov Musical school and continued my education in Lvov National Musical Academy. As I have wide range of interests to different genres of contemporary music, I work with musicians multi-instrumentalists and play world-music, ethnical music, classics, gypsy jazz [...]

I am a guitarist, composer, producer and studio owner. I studied in London (UK) and have a master degree in composing for film music. I grew up listening to Oriental/Pop music in Nazareth and in my teens I became interested in Rock. Then in my mid-twenties I started listening to jazz. My major interest is [...]

Roksana Smirnova is a pianist and composer. She was born in Odessa (Ukraine). At the age of 6 she began practicing music. When she was 13 years old her first performing debut took place at a jazz festival of L. Utyosov. Roksana graduated from the Odessa College of Arts and Culture as a jazz pianist, [...]

In 2007 he was the finalist of the competition Dodj Junior, marked out as the best keyboard player, two times the winner of the first place at Rostislav Kabanchenko's competition. He has graduated from the Donetsk Musical Academy, trained in the mainstream department. He is also a bachelor of classical departament of the Odessa Music [...]

"Я очень рад, что День Джаза будет ежегодно официально отмечаться во всем мире, это говорит о его полном признании как культурном явлении мирового масштаба. В Одессе отметили это событие большим концертом в очень уютной атмосфере клуба "Бернардацци". Большое спасибо идейному вдохновителю и организатору концерта М.П. Фрейдлину. Также порадовало большое количество джазовых музыкантов, которые смогли принять [...]

I finished school named after prof. P. S. Stolyarskiy, Odessa. Currently I study at Kiev Musical Institute named after Reinhold Gli?re. I love jazz and football. I have been studying jazz since my early childhood, thanks to my father musician.

The world heard my first sounds on the 10th of December, 1973. Since then all my life is accompanied with music: my first steps, first success and discoveries. Maybe due to this evident child's talent my parents decided to develop it in myself. I was admitted to Kiev music school No5, then to Odessa music [...]

“I graduated from the school of arts as a violinist. Besides school repertoire I played a lot of folk music and participated in rock groups. I studied in musical school. Since 2005 I have been interested in the concept of the worldmusic/ethnicfusion genres. In 2009 I gathered the ethno-jazz group, called "Suzir’ya" (ukr. Constellation), with [...]

June opened a series of summer jazz festivals in Ukraine and worldwide. Lovers of jazz already buying tickets for trains and planes, not to miss the most important jazz events of the summer. And there will be many.   We offer you an overview of the most popular jazz events of the summer.

Июнь   Открывает джазовое лето на Европейском континенте фестиваль в Герлиц (Германия) - Jazztage G?rlitz. Уже семнадцатый год подряд этот восточно-немецкий город (на границе с Польшей) принимает у себя джазовых исполнителей разного стиля. На протяжении пяти дней (30 мая – 3 июня) здесь будут звучать классичесая джазовая музыка, перемежающаяся фолк-джазом и поп-джазом. Отличительной чертой фестиваля [...]

Мы продолжаем публиковать впечатления гостей Первого международного дня джаза, который джазовая общественность Одессы отмечала 29 апреля этого года в ресторане «Бернардацци». Сегодня своими впечатлениями от праздника делится Елена Шевченко, арт-директор джаз клуба «Регтайм» и преподаватель-методист Одесского училища искусств и культуры им. К.Ф.Данкевича, организатор и ведущая концертов и фестивалей джазовой музыки, член Международного союза журналистов и автор статей о теории и истории джаза. Слово Елене Шевченко!

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