Igor Butman celebrate 50th Anniversary of Kremlin

Day of the 50th Anniversary of the "best saxophonist of the living" (Bill Clinton), Igor Butman celebrate bandleader, composer, winner of the State Prize of the Russian Federation Igor Butman big gala concert at the State Kremlin Palace. The concert promises to be the most spectacular event in the history of Russian jazz, like an anniversary of Igor were real superstars from around the world: singer and pianist Diana Krall, trumpeter Wynton Marsalis and Randy Brecker, bassist Christian McBride, drummer Billy Cobham, singer Larisa Dolina and Sergey Mazaev, multi-instrumentalist David Goloshchekin. With these musicians Igor combines not only music, but also friendship, so the atmosphere of the concert promises to be a very warm and definitely not boring! All musicians performs, accompanied by the Jazz Orchestra Igor Butman, a powerful jam until dawn is guaranteed! All jazz fans a real treat presented a frank and funny man! Igor Butman Igor Butman was born in 1961 in Leningrad. At age 11 began playing the clarinet in the children's music school. At the same time, Igor committed serious hockey, and also for the youth team "SKA Leningrad" played. However, the choice is made even more in favor of music, and in 1976 he joined the music school. Mussorgsky saxophone. While still a student Igor started playing jazz ensemble David Goloshekin. Around the same time Igor Butman took in concerts and recordings of "Popular Mechanics" by Sergei Kuryokhin groups and "Cinema" and "Aquarium". In 1983 he played in the orchestra of Oleg Lundstrem - the best jazz orchestra of the USSR. The following year joined Igor alto tenor and Nicholas was the Levinovsky Ensemble "Allegro", which played up to his departure for America in 1987 invited. In the U.S., Igor joined the prestigious Berklee College of Music in Boston. After college, Igor moved to New York, where he began to perform and record with jazz greats Grover Washington, Lionel Hampton Orchestra, Pat Metheny, Joe Lovano and many others. In May 1995 Igor Butman was honored to speak at the Faceted Chamber of the Kremlin before the American and Russian presidents - Bill Clinton and Boris Yeltsin. At the end of this year, Igor returned from exile in Russia. Igor Butman 1999 organized a jazz club, and Mr. Sergey Mazaeva has ("moral code") created a jazz band of Igor Butman by collecting the best jazz musicians in Russia. The orchestra often at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, the legendary jazz club "Birdland" and other equally prestigious venues around the world. Played Vcemirno famous jazz musicians were with the performances with orchestra Igor Butman, happy ones - Dee Dee Bridgewater, vocal quartet "New York Voices", George Benson, Gino Vanelli, Wynton Marsalis, Larry Korriell, Billy Cobham, Bill Evans, Randy Brecker, Joe Lovano, Gary Burton, Toots Thielemans, Kevin Mahogani_. The real sensation become common performances of Igor Butman Jazz Band and Orchestra Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra Wynton Marsalis, performed in 2003 at the opening of the new season of Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York. In 2007, the label Sony Music album of Igor Butman "Funny Stories" (in the foreign version - "Magic Land"), recorded with artists such as Chick Corea, John Patitucci, Stephon Harris, Randy Brecker and Jack Dedzhonett. In 2009, saxophonist the Golden Disk from the National Federation of the Phonographic Industry for selling over 15,000 copies of the album in Russia. Igor Butman - "is not only a musician from God", but also a large producer and organizer. For 11 years, Igor produced the largest jazz festival in Russia - "Triumph of Jazz" and as part of the Cultural Olympiad - a festival "AkvaDzhaz" in Sochi. Igor Butman operates his own record label Butman music, releasing albums of Russian-American jazz projects, the head has two jazz centers in Moscow - Igor Butman Club Clean ponds and Falcon. For five years, Igor was presenter of the program "Dzhazofreniya" on the channel "Culture". Igor Butman played in various projects, including the violist Yuri Bashmet and his orchestra "Soloists of Moscow", with symphony orchestras, opera prima _. With Elena Obraztsova in Theatre Mikhail Kazakov and recorded music for many films Larisa Dolina and Igor Butman Orchestra made two jazz concerts that toured the cities of Russia and the world, and also a CD and DVD. The immense popularity and the love of the audience received Igor Butman, performing in ice shows two channel to spar with world champion figure skaters Maria Petrova and Albena Denkova. In addition to the music of Igor _esche have a passion - it's hockey, which he played with legends of Soviet sport - Kasatanovym, Fetisov, Larionov. Igor was a member of a support group of Russian athletes at four Olympic Games. In 2011, the artist became an Olympic ambassador "Sochi-2014". For outstanding service in June 2004 Igor Butman was awarded the State Prize of the Russian Federation in the field of literature and art.