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Igor Osypov

Igor Osypov is a Ukrainian guitarist currently residing in Berlin where he attends the Jazz Institute Berlin (JIB) and studies with world renowned guitarist Kurt Rosenwinkel. Shortly after arriving in Berlin, he founded his Quintet, featuring some of his favorite musicians from all over Europe and the USA. Elias Stemeseder (Austria) piano, a fellow classmate of Osypov at the JIB, is one of the most in demand young pianists in Europe as well as being a regular member of avant garde drummer Jim Black’s Trio. Martin Buhl Staunstrup (Denmark) bass, is also a classmate of Osypov and Stemeseder at the JIB, and a current student of well known American bassist Greg Cohen. Before making the move to Berlin, Staunstrup was very active in the flourishing jazz scene in Copenhagen and has performed with Tomas Franck, Carl Winther, Jakob Dinesen among other Scandanavian jazz greats. Jesus Vega (USA) drums, a native of California, Vega holds a Bachelors and Masters in Jazz Studies from Sacramento State and Universtiy of Nevada, Reno and has performed/studied with, David Ake, Peter Epstein, Joe Lovano, Ingrid Jensen, Vince Lateano, Julia Dollison, Kenny Washington, Geoffrey Keezer, and Butterscotch as well as many others. Since it’s inception, the Quintet has performed at festivals all around Europe including the Copenhagen Jazz Festival in Denmark, Burghausen Jazz Woche and HFM Jazz Preis in Germany, Jazz nad Odra in Poland and Jazz a Montauban in France. The band focuses on playing original compositions that not only draw inspiration from the Jazz idiom, but other genres such as Classical and Rock. In the summer of 2014, Igor Osypov recorded his debut CD with American saxophonist Logan Richardson, due out in the spring of 2015 on Unit Records.

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Danil Zverkhanovsky: Work In Progress

Read "Work In Progress" reviewed by Hrayr Attarian


Berlin-based, Ukrainian guitarist Danil Zverkhanovsky released his second album as a leader, the captivating Work In Progress in piecemeal fashion over three EPs. Thematically, however, the three parts are unified, showcasing Zverkhanvosky's prodigious talent as a composer and performer. The earliest tunes were written in 2011 when he was only 17 and the latest ones are from 2022. They all have a common thread of inventive ideas delivered with tastefully tempered enthusiasm. The effervescent “Postmodern Serenade" opens with ...

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Logan Richardson: AfroFuturism

Read "AfroFuturism" reviewed by Chris May


In a 2016 interview, Kansas City-born alto saxophonist Logan Richardson said: “Jazz will constantly change because there's constantly a new us, new times. There will always be a fight from the conformists--but they don't represent where the tradition is coming from." Richardson was talking not long after the release of his adventurous Blue Note album, Shift. Warning! That album sounds positively conservative compared to the paradigm-shattering monster AfroFuturism. Among the latest album's various conceptual references, either intended ...

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Igor Osypov Quartet: Dream Delivery

Read "Dream Delivery" reviewed by Dave Wayne


Igor Osypov's debut album, I (Unit Records, 2015), was quite promising in many ways. Yet, it was a snapshot of an artist still in the formative stages of the craft. Thus, the content of the Berlin-based plectrist's Dream Delivery came as a pleasant shock. Seemingly, within the past year, Osypov has taken prodigious strides towards staking out a unique personal sound. Wielding a semi-hollow body electric, Osypov defaults to a clean tone and a notably percussive attack while mixing in ...

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Igor Osypov Quintet: I

Read "I" reviewed by Dave Wayne


A native of Ukraine currently studying at Jazz Institute Berlin under Kurt Rosenwinkel, guitarist Igor Osypov was initially drawn to the guitar as a pre-teen via rock and punk-rock. Osypov's debut album I is, on the surface, the type of sunny, moderately complex, indie-rock inflected jazz that's the stock-in-trade of guys like Brian Blade, David Binney, Torben Waldorff, and, of course, Rosenwinkel himself. Happily, there's a lot of blood and guts evident in Osypov's playing and in his tunes. Dark ...

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Dnipro & Kruchi
2023

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Work In Progress

Dnipro & Kruchi
2023

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Dnipro & Kruchi
2023

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Dnipro & Kruchi
2022

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AfroFuturism

WAX Industry / Whirlwind Recordings
2021

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Dream Delivery

For Tune
2016

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