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Dmitry Alexandrov has been remaining
the best tenor-sax player in Ukraine. For years, for sure.
Either in the eyes of numerous critics, musicians or
listeners.
He's a founder and leader of a "Skhid-Side" band which has
already become fabulous in our national jazz history.
There's more than a dozen world-class jazz musicians,
including Randy Brecker and Mark Soskin, who highly
appraised the level of Dmitry's performing.
Besides the fact that Alexandrov has mastered his instrument
in a gracious and consummate way he has proved to be a
talented teacher.
Notamag.Com
- He seems to be equally profound
at playing either mainstream, free
jazz, acid or lounge...
What Hi Fi?
- He belongs to a type of people who,
on achieving a considerable degree of artistry, doesn't quit
everyday routine self-cultivation, 6-7-hour work.
Dmitry plays everything - salsa, swing, post-bop.
He's really competent and wise at playing traditional jazz
and mainstream, so stylistically adequate that those of
world jazz stars who played jams with Dmitry would always
look back in surprise when he would begin his exquisite,
passionate, sophisticated solos.
UAjazz.Com
- 50 minutes of
pure, classical jazz – that is the only way to describe the
new album SkhidSideMen by the jazz band SkhidSide
[Dmitry plays with]. This band is one of the most
outstanding jazz bands in Ukraine with a well thought out
and individual sound. Jazz aficionados and critics consider
it to be the standard of quality in Ukrainian show business.
The album demonstrates a great level of skills of the
members of the band – Volodymyr Shabaltas (guitar), Illya
Yeresko (piano), Oleksandr Lebedenko (drums), Valentyn
Korniyenko (double-bass) and Dmytro Aleksandrov,
tenor saxophonist and author of all of the compositions on
the album.
SkhidSide was formed 10 years ago in Kharkiv. In those years
the musicians mastered a whole variety of jazz trends –
everything from jazz classics, jazz variations on an
avant-garde theme hip-hop, Latino music and rock. SkhidSide
is a personification of the most unpredictable artistic
workshop. Everything starting with quartet version of Carl
Orff’s oratorio Carmina Burana and finishing with radical
avant-garde may be heard in the performances of piano player
Illya Yeresko and double-bass guitarist Valentyn Korniyenko.
Aleksandrov, who is devoted to classic jazz told KW that he
recently played two shows with the famous New York pianist
Mark Soskin, after which he played salsa within the
framework of the project Kiev Salsa Kings.
By the way, in 2005 the band performed with a famous
American jazz musician Randy Brecker – who is one of the
most famous trumpeters in the U.S.
SkhidSide presented a perfect hard acid-funk program at this
year’s popular jazz festival Jazz Koktebel in Crimea. It is
worth mentioning that music critics call this program much
more impressive than the high-quality, yet predictable
performance of DePhazz, who were special guests at the
festival.
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BIOGRAPHY
 Dmitry
Alexandrov was born December, 27, 1973 in Kharkiv, Ukraine.
That's where he got elementary and secondary musical
education. At the age of 15 he entered Kharkiv Musical
College where he took a saxophone for the first time in his
life and showed such zeal, eagerness and love to the
instrument that this very year became a prize-winner at a
Donetsk (Ukraine) musical contest and, at 16, an awardee at
a Kiev one.
1992 Dmitry was enrolled to the Rostov-on-Don music
conservatory (this educational establishment is known to be
one of the most respected jazz centers in the CIS). Soon
after he transfers to the Kharkiv Art College to proceed
studying.
1995 Alexandrov founds "Skhid Side" band which in several
years was to become one of the most original and
professional jazz ensembles in Ukraine.
Since 1996 Alexandrov has toured a lot, with Russia, Great
Britain, Spain, Poland, Lithuania and Germany among the
visited countries.
There's been a whole bunch of jazz celebrities with whom
Dmitry happened to perform. Igor Butman, Leszek Mozdzer,
Goetz Gruenberg, Vladimir Nesterenko, Marlon Jordan, Jerald Hayes, Kim
Plainfield, Josef Ametsbihler, Mark Soskin, Randy Brecker,
Adam Pieronczik, Mark Gilmour, "Gabin", "De Phazz" to name a
few.
Alexandrov is an author and participant of several projects,
amongst which there is a salsa-playing band, modern jazz
group and mainstream ensembles - quartets, trios and combos.
At the time Dmitry's working out an idea of a completely new
an authentic project, musically based on original Ukrainian
tunes.
CONCERTS and
FESTIVALS
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1995 - "Jazz
Horizons" (Krivoy Rog,
Ukraine)
"Jazz Festival"
(Sumy, Ukraine)
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1996 - NIkopol Jazz
Festival (Ukraine)
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1998 - Nikopol Jazz
Festival (Ukraine)
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2000 - "Jazz
Province" (Russia)
Yalta Jazz Festival (the
Crimea, Ukraine)
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2001 - "Nightless
Night's Swing" (Saint-Petersburg,
Russia)
"Getxo"
(Spain)
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2002 -
"Nightless
Night's Swing" (Saint-Petersburg,
Russia)
"Jazz Bez" (Lviv,
Ukraine)
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2003 - "DoDj"
(Donetsk, Ukraine)
"Jazz Bez" (Lviv,
Ukraine)
"Jazz Koktebel" (the Crimea,
Ukraine)
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2005 - "Jazz
Koktebel" (the Crimea,
Ukraine)
"Cherkassy Jazz Days" (Ukraine)
Dmitry also performed single concerts in
Russia, Great Britain, Spain, Poland, Lithuania, Germany
etc.
AUDIO
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Voices
(feat. Mark Soskin) - 13.18
[9.13 Mb]
(Recorded at a concert with Mark Soskin, April,
21-22, 2006) |
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Song for the Orange Revolution
(feat. Wlodek Pawlik) - 11.19
[7.68 Mb] ("Brand
New", 2005)
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Cxiд-Sideman - 8.49
[6.03 Mb] ("Cxiд-Sidemеn", 2006)
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Autumn in the Giller School
- 5.47
[3.97 Mb] ("Cxiд-Sidemеn",
2006) |
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Relax
(Схід-Side feat. Randy Brecker)
- 9.52
[6.78 Mb] ("Interjazz",
2006) |
VIDEO
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