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A Brief Guide To Ukrainian Jazz: Part 3

Courtesy Dovile Sermokas
The vast range of personal musical identities attests to the strength, depth and originality of contemporary Ukranian jazz.
The third installment of A Brief Guide To Ukrainian Jazza series developed with the cooperation of the Ukrainian Instituteintroduces five more highly talented jazz artists/groups from Ukraine. The vast range of personal musical identities attests to the strength, depth and originality of contemporary Ukranian jazz.
Leléka

"Marusyn Tatko" is a song about a father, walking through the afterlife, who begs God to allow him to return to Earth for his daughter's wedding. Leléka's haunting vocals are lent sympathetic support by Swedish pianist
Povel Widestrand
pianoThomas Kolarczyk
bassFans of German/Azeri singer

Simin Tander
vocalsVadim Neselovskyi


Brad Mehldau
pianob.1970

Freddie Hubbard
trumpet1938 - 2008
Neselovskyi, however, was turning heads from a young age. The youngest ever student to enter the conservatory in Odesa, Neselovskyi continued his classical studies in Dortmund before immersing himself in jazz in Berklee College of Music. There he came onto the radar of Burton, who recruited Neselovskyi for his talent mentoring projecta band that also included guitarist

Julian Lage
guitar, electricThree handsome duo recordings with horn multi-instrumentalist

Arkady Shilkloper
flugelhornb.1956
But it is from Neselovskyi's no less outstanding solo album Odesa: A Musical Walk Through a Legendary City (Sunnyside Records, 2022) that we offer "Odesa Railway Station," a tour de force of dancing, tango-esque thrills and dazzling two-handed technique.
Yakiv Tsvietinskyi

The years of dedication, determination and study bore fruit in 2019 with the release of Tsvietinskyi's debut as leader, Minimalist (Seventh Lane Records), an album of refined compositional structure and lyrical interpretation. Pianist
Misha Lyshenko
keyboardsKristina Kirik
bass, acousticMisha Mendelenko


Jim Hall
guitar1930 - 2013

Kenny Burrell
guitar, electricb.1931

Peter Bernstein
guitarb.1967
With

Oleg Markov
drums
Jimmy Smith
organ, Hammond B31925 - 2005

Jack McDuff
organ, Hammond B31926 - 2001

Joey DeFrancesco
organ, Hammond B31971 - 2022
Vadim Bessarab Trio

Andrey Goncharov
drums
Bobo Stenson
pianob.1944
With the wind in its sails, Vadim Bessarab Trio wasted little time in producing Approximation (Self Produced, 2022), which retained the trio's signature sound while deepening and refining the collective dialog. From that album, "On Air" captures the trio, and Bessarab in particular, in achingly lyrical form. A piano trio that values form as well as freedom, space and lingering beauty.
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