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The "Triumph of Jazz" festival starts on Thursday, March 11, in Moscow, TASS reports. The international festival has been held for more than 20 years; the famous jazzman Igor Butman is its traditional organizer. All these years the festival has been acquainting Russian audience with the art of the most famous jazzmen of our time.
The first performance of the festival program will be a concert by the Moscow Jazz Orchestra conducted by Butman. The pianist Oleg Akkuratov will perform with them. The audience will meet with the singer Fantine, Sergei Dolzhenkov and his New Blood Big Band, Ilya Morozov's sextet, Nikolai Mishchenko's trio, and many other performers.
Allan Harris, one of the best jazz vocalists in the world, the young trio of Emmet Cohen, will come to perform in Moscow. Igor Butman recalled that during the pandemic, the musician held concerts almost weekly in his apartment with New York performers.
The festival will take place in Tula and St. Petersburg. Igor Butman promised that next year Tver will also be included in this orbit.
Igor Butman holds a number of international festivals aimed at uniting nations through music. The Jazz Across Borders Festival was held with great success in the fall of 2018 in St. Petersburg. A few weeks earlier, Butman was awarded the American prize for fostering a cultural dialogue between Russia and the United States.
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