Date: 7 SeptemberTime: 22:00
Venue: art-club "44" (44-b Khreschatyk St.)
Entry: UAH 50
Autumn Jazz Night will be opened by two saxophone players: Bogdan Gumenyuk and Viktor "Zedan" Pavelko.
Battle of these two will probably be the "jazziest" concert of the season. Very often, people distinguish jazz from the rest of the music just by hearing or not hearing a saxophone in it. If they hear it, then it’s jazz. Jazz admirers, who know a little bit more about the saxophone music, understand that the music which Bogdan Gumenyuk and Viktor Pavelko write is the jazz itself. And when two saxophone players stand on one scene, it means that it’s a Sax Battle night.
Bogdan Gumenyuk:
Bogdan holds "The best saxophone player" prize of one of the main jazz contests in CIS - "Do#Dj Junior" (2006). Thanks to the expert jury of the contest, Bogdan got a well deserved name of the best young saxophone player in Ukraine. Bogdan Gumenyuk plays his own music. Most of the compositions played by his project Bogdan Gumenyuk Trio are written by Bogdan.
He’s currently cooperating with Alex Fantayev, Denis Dudko, Alexei Saranichin, Natalia Lebedeva, Dennis Adu, Svyatoslav Vakarchuk. Bogdan is the solist of the "Vnochi" project.
Current projects: Bogdan Gumenyuk Trio, 44 Union.
Viktor "Zedan" Pavelko:
In 1996 he started to play in the jazz orchestra for kids lead by a well known jazz band leader and teacher – Alexander Gebel. Next, he continued to study in the orchestra lead by a talented director and teacher – Viktor Basyuk. He participated in different festivals as a member of the orchestra: "Jazzalda" (San-Sebastian), "Jazz a Vienne" (Vienna), "Millau en Jazz" (France), "Horizons of jazz" (Kryvyy Rih), "Jazz on Dniepr" (Dnipropetrovsk), "Festival dedicated to the memory of L. Utesov" (Yuzhny). 2002-2004: participated in the festivals "Yednist'" (Kyiv), "Evenings dedicated to the memory of Vladimir Simonenko" (Kyiv) as a member of Little Band Akademy. 2008: participated in "Jazz Koktebel" festival as a member of Lela Brazil Project.
In 2007 entered the R. M. Glier Institute of Music. He started to write music in 2005.
Viktor holds "The best tenor saxophone player" prize of the "Do#Dæ junior’09" contest.
He is currently cooperating with following musicians: Natalia Lebedeva, Konstantin Ionenko, Vladimir Voshkolup, Oleg Markov, Illya Alabuzhev, Dennis Adu, Dmitriy Kovalenko, Sergey Ovsianikov and many others.
Current projects: Viktor Pavelko Quintet, Lela Brasil Project, Remont vody.
Autumn Jazz Night project’s web page: http://online.fm/en/autumn-jazz-night
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