I am a musician saxophonist, clarinetist. Tenor-sax is my basic instrument. I finished Surgut musical college as a clarinetist. I work in orchestra and play alt-sax part.[...]

He studied in the Vilkonskiy music school #1 in Chernigov in the piano class, his teacher was Danilova V.V. Since 2005 had been taught by the teachers Kharchenko A.G. and Kuvarzina T.A. in the Stoliarskiy specialized boarding school in the piano class. Since 2008 had been taught in the percussion instrument class by the teacher Leonov V.E. Since 2011 had been Odessa Dankevich musical College stude[...]

Dear Friends!   We invite you to come back into the summer day of June, 8, to the Master-Jam Fest Gala Concert to enjoy the beauty of compositions performed by "All Stars Improvisation Big Band" conducted by inimitable Anatoly Kroll, People’s Artist of Russia and the Festival Jury Chairman.     We remind you that musicians from 16 countries were included into the international big band composition.     Have [...]

The International Festival-Contest of Jazz Improvisation «Master-Jam Fest» continues the Online Preselection of the season 2013–2014.   The participants’ registration is held on the website master-jam.com Registration is Free.   MJF — is the First in the practice of the world jazz community annual year-round Festival-contest which uses global communication capabilities of the Internet.   MJF — is the International Festival-contest. The first season was attended [...]

The team of the «Master-Jam Fest» thanks the chief editor of the magazine «Jazz.ru» — the most authoritative edition about jazz in Russian language — Cyril Moshkow for the publication of a detailed and objective information about the first final of the project.   We express our gratitude to the presenter of the Festival — Elena Shevchenko; the patriarch of the Russian jazz journalism — Vladimir Feyertag; the severe [...]

Jam Session Etiquette by Grant «King» Koeller, 1999     «I’ve been going to Jam sessions for 25 years now since I was 12 years old and yes there are certain rules.     1. Don’t be a solo hog. Say what you have to say in as few choruses as possible.   2. Don’t cut another soloist off by jumping in.   3. If you don’t know the tune, don’t [...]

Look, It Is Even Moving! (Some notes of Master-Jam Fest that started in 2013)   Once Einstein was asked about the process of making a discovery. «It is really simple. Everybody knows that it is impossible to make a discovery. There is always an ignorant man who does not know it. He is the one to make a discovery,» replied the scientist.   The Odessa jazz Master-Jam Fest is quite unusual. It has а weird [...]

Jacopo Mezzanotti is an Italian guitar player living in the Netherlands.
He grew up in a small village in Italy and he started his studies at "Centro musicale Il Barco" in Urbania (Italy), where he was also teaching for a few years before moving to The Netherlands to complete his studies at the Royal Conservatory of Den Haag.
In 2012 he participated with his own composition at the YouMe pr[...]

In 2009 Jaclyn was the recipient of the CBC Galaxie Rising Star Award from her very first performance at a jazz festival, the Vancouver International Jazz Festival. She performed several of her own compositions and has been gaining serious recognition in Canada as one of the emerging talents in the country. Most recently she became a top 5 finalist in the Made In NY Jazz competition and just retur[...]

Guitarist and composer David Blake is an emerging talent based in Vancouver B.C.’s vibrant jazz scene. He has performed in venues across the country including Vancouver's Cellar Jazz Club, Toronto's The Rex, Montreal's Upstairs, The National Music Center in Calgary, Edmonton's Yardbird Suite and many more. David's compositions have been performed by various groups which have been featured in th[...]

At the age of 9 Yuri graduated from a children’s music school flute class. Studying there he started to play a contrabass and fell in love with this instrument and its sound forever. Yuri’s parents presented to him the Fender Jazz Bass when he was 12 years old and then he started studying the bass-guitar and Arievich’s etudes. He also plays drums and a guitar. Yuri played in different styles[...]

Ivan is a student of the second course of the National Academy of Culture and Arts. He is the winner of many national and international contests, the contest of young improvisers after Temkin D. (Kremenchug), the contest of young jazz performers (Donetsk). Bill Evans, John Coltrane, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, Ron Carter greatly influenced Ivan. He especially likes Old school. His favorite styl[...]

Anna Mia is a singer, songwriter and composer. Anna Mia lived in the mountains and learn how to sing with a nightingales and other birds. She`s worked with project Moonvoyage on EP "Dreamers" and with Planet Ragtime on single "Character". Shalapi (Moonvoyage) says: "One of the most extraordinary voice that I've heard". [...]

Registration is in progress[...]

Dimitris Angelakis is a Fulbright jazz vibraphone player from Greece who is doing his master’s degree in Philadelphia (USA). “Someone asked me many years ago why I play this instrument and I answered: I like to hit notes and I like jazz, as simple as that” [...]

“I love this loud instrument since childhood. I started playing music professionally after entering the Higher Musical College in Tiraspol. Currently I study at my 4th year as a drummer. I perform and listen to music of different kinds: jazz, jazz-rock, funk, Latin music, etc.”[...]

Nominees for the 56th Annual Grammy Awards were announced on Dec. 7.   Among the nominees in the jazz categories are recordings by Kenny Garrett, Paquito D’Rivera, Wayne Shorter, Gregory Porter, Randy Brecker, Wlodek Pawlik, Buika and others.   In the category «Best Improvising Jazz Solo» were nominated Wayne Shorter & Paquito D’Rivera. Paquito D’Rivera also were nominated in the category «Best [...]

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Dmitrij Golovanov is one of the most demanded jazz pianists in Lithuania. He is the winner of several international jazz piano competitions as well as the semifinalist of Montreux Jazz Solo Piano Competition in 2012 and a finalist of European Jazz Competition in Rotterdam in 2013. For the last decade he is an active participant of Lithuanian jazz scene collaborating with most prominent musicians. [...]

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Born in Jakarta, Indonesia in 1997, Reyharp or Reyhan Naufal is one of the young shooting stars emerging on the contemporary harmonica scene. Reyharp plays blues and jazz on the diatonic harp with a maturity and assurance which belies his years and astonished listeners at the prestigious Asia Pacific Harmonica Festival 2012, where he won the diatonic contest in the face of stiff competition.Reyhar[...]

Veronika is a jazz singer and composer of a young jazz generation in Lithuania. Since 2008 she is an active member of Lithuanian Jazz scene. 2013 Veronika graduated Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre where she finished music performance (vocals) and music pedagogy master studies. She also studied in F. Liszt High Music School in Weimar, Germany (with Jeff Cascaro and Michael Schiefel). Sh[...]

December   November 28 — December 6 X Jazz festival «Jazz Globe» (Jerusalem, Israel) November 28 — December 15 Christmas jazz festival Joulujazz (Tallinn, Estonia) December 4 Mokotow Jazz Fest (Warsaw, Poland) December 4–15 XIII International jazz Festival «Jazz Bez» (Ukraine – Poland) December 5 VI jazz Festival Jubilee 2013 (Mykolaiyv, Ukraine) December 5–8 Lublin jazz festival (Lublin, Poland) [...]

After performing throughout Europe with several groups led by French bassist Olivier Gatto alongside pianist Camelia Ben Naceur and legendary drummer Billy Cobham, Inbar went into the studio to record “Time Quartet Project”. Collaborating with Camelia and fellow french band members, the quartet traveled to the foot of the Pyrenees in the south of France. Inspired by the vast French countryside[...]

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Michel B?n?big was born in New Cal?donia (South-Pacific). He started playing bass, accord?on and ?lectronic-organ (Farfisa) at 11 in differents dancing-bands all around New Cal?donia. Michel started to learn piano and music-theory at 16 at the E.T.M (Ecole Territoriale de Musique de Noum?a), he obtained the “Golden M?dal” certificat on Piano in 1988 . He studied in high level of classical-[...]

I was born and grew up in Krasnodar. I finished the musical college named after M. P. Musorgskiy in St. Petersburg. Among educators I would distinguish Sergey Dikman, Hasan Baghirov, Alexandra Starostenko with special reverence. For about 7 years I was playing jazz standards along with practicing finger-style and classical guitar. The most important thing for me is certainly jazz!
I partici[...]

Live Audio | Master-Jam 2013 Final | Third Contest Day This playlist contains 15 sounds, total time: 3.23.47   We continue to upload live audio-records of all the Master-Jam Fest-2013 Final contest days jam-performances into our official channel on Soundcloud.   You can listen to, download, share single compositions, which you like, or playlists on your pages in social networks or integrate records into your blog or website, and, of course, [...]

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.[...]

    Dear Friends!   Today, the 14th of November, is the birthday of well-known and beloved by jazz community jazzman — Nikolay Goloshchapov, the creator and artistic director of Odessa big band, who has been heading jazz department of Odessa College of art and culture named after K. Dankevich for more than 30 years, the organizing committee member and the jury deputy chairman of «Master-Jam [...]