Eldar Djangirov

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Eldar Djangirov

Eldar Djangirov (born January 28, 1987 in the Kyrgyz SSR , Soviet Union ) is a jazz pianist .

biography

Djangirov started playing the piano at the age of three. His father, an avid jazz fan , noticed that by the age of five, his son was able to reproduce recordings on the piano with pinpoint accuracy by hearing . Because of his talent, his parents decided to teach him professionally: his father taught him to play the piano, while his mother, a music teacher, taught him music history at a school in Bishkek . There Eldar Djangirov was taught classical and traditional playing techniques, but he developed an interest in jazz, especially for his role models such as Oscar Peterson and Bill Evans .

When Djangirov took part in a jazz festival in Novosibirsk in 1996 , he was discovered by the American jazz enthusiast Charles McWhorter, who enabled him to train at the Interlochen Center for the arts in Michigan . In 1998 the Djangirov family moved from the Soviet Union to Kansas City in the USA. At the age of 15 Djangirov played George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue with the Independence Symphony Orchestra and had a. a. a guest appearance with the Nebraska Jazz Orchestra.

Charles McWorther recommended Djangirov to his girlfriend Marian McPartland in the following years . When she heard a recording by the young artist, she was enthusiastic about his abilities and invited him to join her weekly series Piano Jazz, which is broadcast by the radio network NPR . As a result, the renowned radio station Columbia Broadcasting System hired him once for his program Sunday Morning . Through his performance at the Jazz Musician Foundation, Djangirov met Michael Greene, chairman of the National Association of Recording Arts and Sciences, who telecast the young pianist a performance at the Grammy Awards in 2000. At that time Djangirov also took part in two important jazz piano competitions, both of which he was able to win. On December 30 and 31, 2006 , he appeared as a musical guest on an aftershow by Prince .

Music genre

Eldar Djangirov has learned jazz harmony , improvisation , big band and composition since his time in the USA ; he is now considered a virtuoso pianist who has appropriated a style between Art Tatum and Oscar Peterson . He has the fastest hands in jazz and merges Russian ballads with the American razzle dazzle.

In addition to mostly jazz standards , which, according to Welt am Sonntag, he takes with verve and youthful pace, he sometimes also plays his own compositions. Djangirov gushed out ideas as if he could hardly wait to send one idea to the next.

Discographic notes

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.eldarjazz.com/ - section About
  2. ↑ a b article in der Welt am Sonntag : https://www.welt.de/print-wams/article140054/Wunderknabe-des-zeitgenoessischen-Jazz.html

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personal data
SURNAME Djangirov, Eldar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz pianist
DATE OF BIRTH January 28, 1987
PLACE OF BIRTH Kyrgyz SSR , Soviet Union