Rec.live at NDR Studio 10 Hamburg/26.01.1996

First CD documenting the Trio's work. Recording of an inspired concert in the NDR radio studio in Hamburg in 1996. One of the best Jazz-Trio-CDs ever recorded!

MIKHAIL ALPERIN / MOSCOW ART TRIO Hamburg Concert CD

When the "iron curtain" rose, a scene of creative musicality came into view, the product of a highly independent course of development. Since then, in the area of jazz, surprising new impulses have continued to emanate from the countries of the former Soviet Union. The pianist MIKHAIL ALPERIN masters the art of absorbing the most diverse signals from the multifarious range of Eastern cultures and passing them on, enriched with his own interpretation.

MIKHAIL ALPERIN was born in the Ukraine, grew up in Moldavia, worked in Moscow and presently lives in Norway. Essentially he is a jazz musician, but one for whom musical borders (as well as those between countries) are evidently there to be crossed: ALPERIN is not content with jazz alone. He is a musical cosmopolite who helps himself to the music of the world with natural ease, incorporating it into his conception of jazz.

Musicians of the former USSR have played a significant role in merging jazz with folkloristic motifs. The cultural policies of the USSR expressed an interest (to put it mildly) in the combination of jazz and native strains. In reality, Russian musicians had no choice but to create a new style. A kind of folk-jazz resulted, open in all directions and clearly permeated with avant-garde forms.

MIKHAIL ALPERIN and his MOSCOW ART TRIO base their work on jazz, integrating folk motifs in a manner both genuine and playful, constructively and confidently expanding musical language to inaugurate a new category somewhere between jazz, free improvisation and the chamber music avantgarde.

When ALPERIN founded the trio in 1990 as a fixed constellation he conciously chose musicians with differing musical backgrounds: W.......
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First CD documenting the Trio's work. Recording of an inspired concert in the NDR radio studio in Hamburg in 1996. One of the best Jazz-Trio-CDs ever recorded!

MIKHAIL ALPERIN / MOSCOW ART TRIO Hamburg Concert CD

When the "iron curtain" rose, a scene of creative musicality came into view, the product of a highly independent course of development. Since then, in the area of jazz, surprising new impulses have continued to emanate from the countries of the former Soviet Union. The pianist MIKHAIL ALPERIN masters the art of absorbing the most diverse signals from the multifarious range of Eastern cultures and passing them on, enriched with his own interpretation.

MIKHAIL ALPERIN was born in the Ukraine, grew up in Moldavia, worked in Moscow and presently lives in Norway. Essentially he is a jazz musician, but one for whom musical borders (as well as those between countries) are evidently there to be crossed: ALPERIN is not content with jazz alone. He is a musical cosmopolite who helps himself to the music of the world with natural ease, incorporating it into his conception of jazz.

Musicians of the former USSR have played a significant role in merging jazz with folkloristic motifs. The cultural policies of the USSR expressed an interest (to put it mildly) in the combination of jazz and native strains. In reality, Russian musicians had no choice but to create a new style. A kind of folk-jazz resulted, open in all directions and clearly permeated with avant-garde forms.

MIKHAIL ALPERIN and his MOSCOW ART TRIO base their work on jazz, integrating folk motifs in a manner both genuine and playful, constructively and confidently expanding musical language to inaugurate a new category somewhere between jazz, free improvisation and the chamber music avantgarde.

When ALPERIN founded the trio in 1990 as a fixed constellation he conciously chose musicians with differing musical backgrounds: W.......
more