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Igor Zakus. Zakus Was Here.

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Igor Zakus. Zakus Was Here.

Everyone who has heard, for example, Duke Ellington, knows for sure what cool jazz is. In the same way, everyone who listens to music by Igor Zakus knows precisely what warm jazz is. However, nothing strange, as Igor himself is a very warm, cheerful person, and in his music this cheerful warmth is revealed through many aspects. And the first of them, clear, is the bass – currently, Zakus has actually no competitors in Ukraine. And the thing is not only professionalism. Listen how soft but bright the instrument sounds in his hands, how much of his sincere heart is given to it – you can hardly mix this handwriting with anything else. I am sure – even if only the bass by Igor Zakus sounded on the disc, it would be a rich, varied jazz album. But a warm person always shares the warmth hospitably and is not afraid to freeze, and this bass – it is not afraid to get lost among the other instruments. That's fair. Thus, in the new work by Zakus as well, we, already traditionally, will hear a whole constellation of the best Ukrainian jazzmen. We will hear – and it will clear our heart. And henceforth the total sum of warmth will unequivocally become larger than before. And let it not stop in its growth, because you never have too much love in this world.

Anton Yozhyk Leyba (Hedgehog)

Igor Zakus – acoustic bass, 6-string fretless bass
Goetz Gruenberg – tenor sax
Rodion Ivanov – piano
Olexander Lebedenko – drums
Sergiy Ovsianykov – guitar
Sergiy Tabunshyk – drums
Volodymyr Shabaltas – guitar
Yuri Shepeta – keyboards
Yevgen Didyk – trumpet
Dmytro "Bobeen" Alexandrov – tenor sax

Publisher: Tempora
Catalogue number: 16-1-2006
Year: 2006

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Igor Zakus

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CD1
1.  Zakus Was Here (Tut buv Zakus)
2. Mp3The Song For The Lovely Woman (Pisnja dlja kohanoji)
3. Mp3Side By Side
4.  Lullaby (Kolysanka)
5.  Feel Like Home (Jak vdoma)
6.  Under Impression Once Again (Znovu pid vrazhennjam)
7. Mp3On The Thing Ice (Po tonkomu l'odu)
8.  Soul (Dusha)
9. Mp3Jaco Blues (Zhako bljuz)
10.  Coda
11.  Zakus Was Here (remix) (Tut buv Zakus (remix))
 Total playing time: 57:22

Fragments of the compositions marked with Mp3 mark are available for listening. How to listen?

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