Dmitry Baevsky
Dmitry Baevsky ( Russian Дмитрий Баевский / Dmitri Bajewski * 24. May 1976 in Leningrad ) is a Russian jazz - saxophonist of hard bop that in the United States lives.
Live and act
Dmitry Baevsky had piano lessons as a child and switched to alto saxophone as a teenager . From 1991 he attended the Mussorgsky College of Music and studied a. a. with Gennadi Golstein . During the 1990s he played in Russian big bands and performed at numerous festivals in the country; In 1996 he moved to New York to study on a scholarship at the Jazz Department of New School University . After that, Baevsky stayed in New York and worked in the local jazz scene. In 2005 he made his record debut Introducing Dmitry Baevsky on Lineage Records, where he played with Cedar Walton , Jimmy Cobb and John Webber . He also worked a. a. with Peter Washington , Willie Jones III , Harry Allen , Peter Bernstein , Junior Mance , Dennis Irwin and Jeremy Pelt . The album Some Other Spring (Rideau Rouge / Harmonia Mundi) followed in 2009, Down with It (Sharp Nine Records) with Jeremy Pelt and his regular quartet of Jeb Patton (piano), David Wong (bass) and Jason Brown (drums) in 2010 . Currently (2018) he leads the Dmitry Baevsky Quartet , which includes Jeb Patton (piano), Joe Strasser (drums) and Neal Miner (bass).
Web links
- Web presence
- Portrait in All About Jazz (English)
- Dmitry Baevsky at Allmusic (English)
- Discussion of the debut of Ken Dryden in Allmusic (English)
- Portrait and interview in the jazz blog Liberation (French)
- Portrait at Smalls
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Baevsky, Dmitry |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bajewski, Dmitri; Баевский, Дмитрий (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian hardbop jazz saxophonist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 24, 1976 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Leningrad |