Igor Mikhailovich Bril

Igor Mikhailovich Bril ( Russian Игорь Михайлович Бриль * 9 June 1944 in Moscow ) is a Russian jazz - pianist , bandleader and composer .

biography

Igor Bril led a trio in the early to mid-1960s, with whom he recorded for the Melodija label in 1965 and gave concerts at Jazz in the Kammer in 1968 . He also played in the bands of Juri Saulski (1966–69), the saxophonist Alexei Koslow and German Lukjanow , before founding his own septet in 1972, which lasted until 1981. He also toured with a quintet through what was then the USSR , Eastern Europe and Cuba . Since 1969 he has also worked as a music teacher.

At the end of 1988 Igor Bril went on a tour of the United States with his quartet, which included saxophonist Alexander Osejchuk, bassist Victor Dvoskin and guitarist Alexei Kuznetsow; this took place as part of a cultural exchange program with the Soviet Union and ended with a guest performance in the New York Club Village Gate , which also featured American musicians such as Jerry Dodgion , Mel Lewis and Wayne André. This performance was recorded and later appeared on the Mobile Fidelity label .

Since the 1990s Bril toured as a soloist or with smaller groups through Europe and Israel. In 1998 he was a guest at the Festival International de Jazz de Montréal .

Discographic notes

• Before the Sun Sets
• Time Remembered (2000)
• Igor Bril & The All-Star Soviet Band: Live at Village Gate (1989)

literature

• Leonard Feather , Ira Gitler : The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz. Oxford University Press, New York 1999, ISBN 0-19-532000-X .
• S. Frederick Starr : Red and Hot - Jazz in Russia 1917-1990 . Hannibal, Vienna, 1990.

Web links

• Igor Michailowitsch Bril at Allmusic (English)

Remarks

1. ↑ During the tour, Alexei Batachev gave lectures on the situation of jazz in the USSR; see. Rigid, 265.