Season 2011 — 2012

20 – 22 October 2011

Germany
The Netherlands
Russia
The USA
Finland


Only real masters take part in this festival.
The cream of jazz!
Those who was at the festival concerts last year could receive evidence of that.
3х3 as 2х2
A triumphal procession of the festival gains momentum!
Three days, three concert sets and three stars in each.
«Sib Jazz Fest» — Remember it, and tell it to your grandchildren!


20 October 2011
Palace of Railway Workers, 18.30

Trio Reijseger/Fraanje/Sylla (The Netherlands):
Ernst REIJSEGER, cello
Harmen FRAANJE, piano
Mola SYLLA, vocal, African percussion

Thomas Siffling Trio (Germany)
groove-music
Thomas SIFFLING, trumpet, flugelhorn
Jens LOH, bass
Markus FALLER, percussions

Dutch Swing College Band (DSC BAND) (The Netherlands)


20 October 2011
«Integral», 20.00

Antti SARPILA, tenor sax, clarinet (Finland)
Jazz orchestra «SIBERIAN DIXIELAND»

BARANA quintet (The Netherlands)


21 October 2011
Palace of Railway Workers, 18.30

Antti SARPILA, tenor sax, clarinet (Finland)
Jazz orchestra «SIBERIAN DIXIELAND»

BARANA quintet (The Netherlands)

Dee Dee Bridgewater (The USA)
Vladimir Tolkachev BIG BAND
«With love to Billie» -compositions from the repertoire of Billie Holiday


22 October 2011
Palace of Railway Workers, 17.00

World Saxophone Quartet (The USA):
David MURRAY, tenor-sax and bas clarinet
Oliver LAKE, alto sax and curved sax
Hamiet BLUIETT, baritone-sax
Tony COFIE, tenor, soprano and alto sax

Askhat Saifullin trio and Steve TURRE, trombone, seashells (The USA)

Al FOSTER BAND (The USA)
Al FOSTER, drums
Markus STRICKLAND, tenor sax, soprano-sax
Adam BIRNBAUM, piano
Douglas WEISS, bass


22 October 2011
«Raisin» night cub, 20.00-24.00

JAM-SESSION

Concerts are presented by chief editor of the journal «Jazz.ru» Cyrill MOSHKOV and Natalia MILLER




Festival participants:

TRIO Rajseger/Fraanje/Sylla (The Netherlands)
Mola SYLLA (vocal, African percussion). Senegal routs colored the individuality of the musician into unique colors. Mola Sylla is unlimited in his passions: jazz, Latina, roll call of ethno cultures, classic and pop-music. Being a brilliant improviser he doesn’t vanish in various style models and remains a unique phenomenon in any genre. We will hear his voice in a trip together with a famous European pianist Harmen FRAANJE and one more jazz polyglot – cellist Ernst REIJSEGER. Reijseger is an important figure in jazz world, and he was awarded by the Main award of Dutch jazz «The Boy Edgar Prijs», prestigious award «Bird Award» on «The North Sea Festival». Ernst collaborates with different staffs. For example he visited dozens of countries and recorded 5 albums being a member of «Clusone Trio». There is a documentary about Reijseger, and that tells about a serious interest to the art of the cellist.


Thomas SIFFLING TRIO (Germany) with a groove-music program
Thomas Siffling was awarded by the Jazz award «Baden Württemberg» in 2005. Together with his colleagues they present a young and modern German jazz. If to listen to the trip participants they say: “Acoustic and electronic music for relax, groove and well being”!
Youth is the time of expansion. Talented and ambitious musicians are constantly travelling. They had concerts in Canada, Romania, Greece, Bulgaria, Norway, India and Sri-Lanka.

Thomas Siffling trio released two albums — «Cruisen» and «Kitchen music».
The musicians don’t mark time, they promote their CDs very actively. With this aim, they held a large tour on Germany, Estonia, Luxemburg, Belgium, Russia and Greece in 2009.
Thomas SIFFLING, trumpet, flugelhorn
Jens LOH, bass
Markus FALLER, percussions

Dutch Swing College Band (DSC BAND) (The Netherlands)
The orchestra gave its first concert on 5 May 1945. Nothing to add.
The collective is an age-mate of the Victory. And the prehistory is as follows. The prohibition of Nazi for jazz music in the Netherlands didn’t stop a group of young musicians. They had secret rehearsals and after the war founded a jazz music school: Swing College. Its participants read lectures, held jazz meetings, held pedagogical activity. In 1960 DSC Band became a professional collective. An expression “The Hague school” appeared as a result of strong influence of DSC to Dutch jazz. And it is quite fair that many jazz lovers perceive DSC as an institute.
DSC band has been and is an adherent of traditional Dutch jazz music. Cheap tricks don’t stand high in band participants’ esteem. This jazz long-liver has a great number of all possible awards and still tours all over the world.


Antti SARPILA (tenor-sax, clarinet – composer and arranger). He is one of the most famous musicians of Finland in jazz world
Antti Sarpila took lessons from Bob Wiber who in its turn was a student of Sydney Bechet. Such a pedigree determined Antti’s loyalty to classical jazz.
Antti’s skill was highly estimated by jazz festival listeners in Europe, The USA, Asia, Australia; he often performed on famous stages including Carnegie Hall. He was lucky to play with jazz titans among which there are Warren Vache, Wynton Marsalis, John Henrics, Trummy Young. He also performed with world known orchestras: “Metropol”, «Dutch Swing College Band», Count Basie band. The musician released dozens of albums. For more than 20 years he has been making records for “Arbros” label in the USA and for “Nagel-Heyer” in Hamburg. Finnish jazz federation awarded Antti Sarpila by a very significant prize “George”, and Community of Classical Jazz – “Luis Armstrong” prize.

Antti has his own band — The Antti Sarpila Swing Band, which will celebrate it’s 30-years anniversary next year. At the same time he performs as a soloist with small bands, Big bands and symphony orchestras. For 7 years Antti has been performing on New Year’s concerts in New Opera theatre (Moscow).
And it is obvious that the most loyal adherent of traditional jazz in Novosibirsk is “SIBERIAN DIXIELAND”…That’s it.



BARANA quintet (The Netherlands)
The quintet found its bonanza on the joint of different cultures and traditions. Partially it is because of the different staff of its participants. It seems that mutually exclusive sources feed the Turkish-Dutch band. But they have a perk because the force of Turkish traditions and jolly Dutch improvisation give birth to something third. And this “third” is a trait in many things determining the individual image of the collective. Unusual instruments (saz) bring a special color into band’s sound. Classic writers of Soviet literature would characterize this quintet as Dutch-subject with a Turkish tint.

Stylistically wide interests of collective artistic directors Behsat Uvez and Steven Kamperman only poor gasoline on a blaze.
The quintent is able to emerge in the modern sea having dove into antiquity. Last year the band performed in Beirut, Cairo, Alexandria, Damascus, Amman, Vienna and in many German cities.

Beshat Uvez, vocal, saz, percussions
Steven Kamperman, soprano sax, alto clarinet
Bart Lelivelt, accordion
Meinrad Kneer, bass
Sebastian Demydczuk, drums


Dee Dee BRIDGEWATER, vocal (The USA). Lady-jazz! A real jewelry of the festival.
Her father played the trumpet and taught Booker Little, Charles Lloyd and George Coleman, her mother loves to listen to Ella Fitzgerald records. Should we say that Dee Dee was brought in a family where jazz was like fresh air? In 1969 she toured over USSR with Illinois University Big Band and a year later she had a phenomenal debut in New York performing as a leading vocalist of the band under the direction of Thad Jones and Mel Lewis – one of the main jazz orchestras of that time. A swift rise to the Jazz Olympus was consolidated by records with such giants as Sony Rollins, Dizzy Gillespie, Dexter Gordon, Max Roach and Roland Kirk. The world academy of musical – The Broadway kneeled down in front of the charming talent of Bridgewater.
Incredible naturalness, intonation expressiveness, voice flexibility and inimitable artistry of the singer are crowned with the highest standard prizes. She was awarded by “Grammy” two times (1998 and 2011), theatre equivalent of “Oscar” –”Tony” award, Laurence Olivier prize. Among a great number of offers to work in Tokio, Los-Angeles, Paris and London she found time to participate in “Sib Jazz Fest”. Dee Dee Bridgewater in Novosibirsk! And Vladimir TOLKACHEV BIG BAND will be as a worthy cutting of this pearl.


World Saxophone Quartet (The USA)
Four colossal personalities, interests of whom, along with jazz of course, cover different spheres of art – from poetry to painting and to opera writing.
David MURRAY (tenor- saxophone, bas clarinet, composer).
A reputable successor of the greatest jazz names, awarded by the highest prizes: Grammy, Guggenheim Fellowship, Bird Award, Danish JazzPar Prize.
He released 130 his own albums and about a hundred albums as a guest musician. He works in very different staffs. Author of two operas and music to movies.
Oliver LAKE (alto-sax, curved sax). Poet, painter, writer. May go on a tour as a “lonely wolf” – with solo composition and maybe accompanied by world-names. A person with unbelievably wide interests, even in jazz: bebop, soul, rhythm-n-blues, cool-school, swing, free jazz. Oliver Lake opened “Sib Jazz Fest 2010” having “stroke” Novosibirsk audience by the composition the duration of which was an hour!!! Unforgettable..

Hamiet BLUIETT (baritone sax, clarinet). An unbeaten master of baritone sax in modern jazz. Co-founder of Black Artists' Group (BAG), directed at theatre works, visual arts, choreography, poetry, cinema and music. Participant of Charles Mingues quartet and Sam Rivers big band. He tends to ensembles of homogenous instruments: is a head of «Bluiett Baritone Nation» virtuous quartet (baritone sax and percussions); founded «The Clarinet Family» (octet of clarinet players) – where all kinds of clarinets are presented- from piccolo to double bass clarinet.
Tony KOFI (tenor, soprano and also sax). Being English, Tony persistently picked his way to jazz. He studied in a legendary Berklee College of Music in Boston (The USA). Such luminaries as Andy Magee and Billy Pearce shared their experience with him.
Coming back home, he played in the best English jazz band “Jazz Warriors” and also in «Gary Crosby’s Nu Troop». His move to the side of solo carrier was many times awarded as The Best instrumentalist on BBC, The Best band on Parliamentary, Album of the year on BBC.


STEVE TURRE, trombone, seashells (The USA)
The trombone player assimilated a very exotic instrument – seashell. He thinks and “seashells and horns of animals were the first brass instruments in human history”. Steve has a great collection of seashells – Indian and Caribbean, with mouthpieces and without. From time to time he performs with the project “Holy seashells” where his whole collection is revived thanks to the collaboration with colleagues- trombone players.


Al FOSTER BAND
«EL had everything I wanted to see in a drummer».
Miles Davis
Al FOSTER was in Richmond, grew up in New York. Two events were determinative in his life – at the age of 10 he received a drum kit as a present and several years later he got acquainted with Sonny Rollins who put a very great influence on him. He became really famous when Miles Davis invited him to his staff, in which Al had worked for 13 years. Not a single musician worked that long with this great trumpeter.

The most distinguished drummer in the world, Foster played with all giants of modern jazz – from Freddie Hubbard and John Scolfield, to Thelonious Monk and Cannonball Adderley. For many years Foster had been touring with Sonny Rollins and Joe Henderson. Even today Al tours a lot and makes records with his own band.
Al FOSTER, percussions
Markus STRICKLAND, tenor-sax, soprano sax
Adam BIRNBAUM, piano
Douglas WEISS, bass