And woe is Butman - one of the most famous jazzmen in Russia, saxophonist, graduate of Berkeley College, founder of Le Club. Russian Magazine: In your opinion, are there few or many jazz festivals now? Igor Butman: You see, I love this music, and I love when a big hall gathers. A large hall can accommodate several artists. This is such a common practice when a musician, for example, invites his friends and they perform together. These turn out to be festival concerts.

The Caucasus is being blown up in Moscow Irina Samakhova Publication date: February 10, 2004 In the subway you usually move on autopilot. And recently I suddenly woke up in the middle of the descent at Pushkinskaya: something was wrong. I’m on the escalator, there’s no one behind me, and below, a few steps down, stands a woman in a headscarf, a long dark robe and with a “diplomat” suitcase in her hand. "Shahidka!" - squeaked in my head.

No growing medium Dmitry Ukhov Publication date: February 10, 2004 Dmitry Ukhov is a music critic who can easily be called both a musicologist and cultural critic, chairman of the Moscow Association of Jazz Journalists, winner, among other things, of the 1999 Bohemian Jazz Prize. Russian Magazine: Do you think the history of jazz in Russia is a natural or unnatural path of development?

Educational program Anna Nemzer Publication date: February 10, 2004 Jazz in the Soviet country, like many other things, was unfavorable and uncertain. The party's general line regarding jazz was poorly developed and changed every now and then. Jazz sometimes turned out to be “the music of the fat”, sometimes it sounded like the voice of the oppressed sections of American society.

Igor Butman is one of the most famous jazzmen of Russia, a saxophonist, graduate of a college of Berkeley, founder of Le Club'a. Russian magazine: in your opinion, there are few or many jazz festivals now? Igor Butman: You see, I love this music, and I love when a large hall is going. A large hall can be assembled by several artists. This is such a common practice when a musician, for example, invites his friends and they perform together. This is obtained by festival concerts.

Country house - never Judith Hermann. Nothing but ghosts: stories. Frankfurt/Main: S.Fischer Verlag, 2003 Elena Tikhomirova Publication date: February 10, 2004 “Nothing But Ghosts” is the second book by 33-year-old Judith Herman. The same one who, having debuted in 1998 with the collection “Country House - Later”, received the prestigious Kleist Prize for it and was named in criticism as the most promising German author.

Whitney began creative career Whitney Houston's quite traditionally: the girl sang in a church choir; hymns and psalms - at the Baptist Church in East Orange, New Jersey. Houston's mother and cousin were both famous gospel singers, so Whitney's musical career seemed set in stone from an early age. However, there are many temptations in the world, and Houston returned to her vocal career after going through a long period of work in the modeling business.

Fear Oksana Zaitseva Publication date: February 10, 2004 In the evening in the center of St. Petersburg, a group of teenagers, presumably skinheads, attacked 35-year-old Yusuf Sultanov, who was returning home with his 9-year-old daughter and 11-year-old nephew from the skating rink in Yusupovsky Garden. Ten people with bats, chains and knives. The boy, who suffered a concussion, managed to escape and hide, Yusuf received a closed head injury, and the girl died on the spot from blood loss.

"Nothing but Ghosts" is the second book of 33 -year -old Judit Herman. The very one that, having debuted in 1998 by the collection "Country House - Later", received a prestigious Kleist Prize for him and was called the most promising German author in criticism.

Order of the Phoenix Oksana Zaitseva Publication date: February 10, 2004 Circus left, the clowns remained. Even the complete defeat of the agents of “manual democracy” in the parliamentary elections did not stop them on the path to achieving a new political system in Russia.

This time we will talk about poetry in the January " Journal Hall ", and there is a relatively fresh one - the 4th and the last number "Arion" over the past year, but besides - much more: poetic numerology from Elena Schwartz in the December " star ", in the January - unchanged Kushner , "Two poems" by Sergey Gandlevsky and a certain number of new poems by Leo Losev in the 1st and 2nd and 2nd and 2nd and 2nd and 2nd and 2nd and 2nd and 2nd The books of "Banner", Anatoly Niman, who disposed of

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Dmitry Ukhov is a musical critic who can easily be called both a musicologist and cultural scientist, chairman of the Moscow Association of Jazz journalists, a laureate, among other things, the 1999 Bohemia -Dzhaz award. Russian magazine: What do you think, the history of jazz in Russia is a natural or unnatural path of development?