21.12.2009

• Dear audience In Christmas’ and New Year’s Eve we want to thank you for being with JazzNet.ru this year. We thank all musicians and composers who let us play their works on JazzNet.ru. They are: Igor Bril, the patriarch of Russian jazz Jerry Drake, an instrumentalist, singer and composer from...

17.09.2009

• Stéphane Grappelli  One of the all-time great jazz violinists (ranking with Joe Venuti and Stuff Smith as one of the big three of pre-bop), Stéphane Grappelli's longevity and consistently enthusiastic playing did a great deal to establish the violin as a jazz instrument. He was originally self-taught as bo...

31.08.2009

• Charlie Parker   One of a handful of musicians who can be said to have permanently changed jazz, Charlie Parker was arguably the greatest saxophonist of all time. He could play remarkably fast lines that, if slowed down to half speed, would reveal that every note made sense. "Bird," along with his c...

30.06.2009

• Simone Gubbiotti Simone was born in Assisi,Italy,September 22,1974 and he started practicing guitar as a self-taught going out with different local band in pop-rock contest. In 1998 he decides to study theory and harmony with the famous clarinet player Gabriele Mirabassi,discovering the passion for jazz and in gene...

18.06.2009

• Kevin Hays  A talented pianist, Kevin Hays grew up in Connecticut and started lessons when he was seven. He made his recording debut with Nick Brignola; toured with the Harper Brothers (1989-1990); and worked with Joshua Redman, Benny Golson, Donald Harrison, Roy Haynes, and Joe Henderson, among others. K...

13.05.2009

• A Kind of Jazz Samuele Garofoli Quartet meet Linda About her: Linda’s voice is certainly among the most particular, intense from the Italian way of singing. About him: The best knowledge of the Jazziest language and the capacity to make all the phrases able too to be sang in a lyric way. We have the occasion to listen to her in a large repe...

11.03.2009

• Benny Carter   To say that Benny Carter had a remarkable and productive career would be an extreme understatement. As an altoist, arranger, composer, bandleader, and occasional trumpeter, Carter was at the top of his field since at least 1928, and in the late '90s, Carter was as strong an altoist at the age...