Vitaliy Zolotov

Vitaliy Zolotov (* 1980 in Dnipropetrovsk , Ukrainian SSR ) is a Ukrainian jazz guitarist .

Live and act

Zolotov studied at the Cologne University of Music from 2003 .

Zolotov worked a. a. with Dee Dee Bridgewater , Sara Gazarek , Frank Haunschild , Maxime Bender and Donny McCaslin . He is a member of the East Drive trio with Philipp Bardenberg and Bodek Janke , which has released four albums to date. In 2008 he was the winner of the Audience Award for Guitarists at the 42nd Montreux Jazz Festival .

In 2008 he founded his own Vitime Band (albums Vitime Band 1 , 2009 and Vitime Band 2 , 2016) and plays with musicians from the German jazz scene such as Rainer Böhm , Joscha Oetz , Bodek Janke, Timofei Birukov , Fedor Ruskuc and Terrence Ngassa . In the field of jazz he was involved in recordings by Oliver Lutz featuring Pablo Held , Triosence / Sara Gazarek ( Where Time Stands Still ) and by Bruno Böhmer Camacho .

Discographic notes

• Vitaliy Zolotov Vitime Band (2009)
• Frank Haunschild & Vitaliy Zolotov Night Train ( Acoustic Music 2012)
• East Drive Special Guest Vadim Neselovskyi Studio Concert (Neuklang 2013)
• East Drive & Tamara Lukasheva Savka i Griska: A Journey to an Eastern European Childhood (Dreyer Gaido 2017)

Web links

• Portrait (NRWJazz)
• [www.vitaliyzolotov.de website]
• Vitaliy Zolotov at Allmusic (English)
• Vitaliy Zolotov at Discogs (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ haunschild-zolotov.de ( Memento from 23 August 2014 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ Tom Lord: The Jazz Discography (online, August 25, 2013)