Big Jazz at Shabolovka 37

September 17 on the air of the channel “Russia-Culture” – a new release of the popular music program Club “Shabolovka, 37”. The host is the famous Russian trumpeter and band leader Vadim Eilenkrig.

In the new jubilee television season of the channel, the popular musical project Shabolovka 37 Club will show releases dedicated to the 100th anniversary of Russian jazz. The premieres of programs with participants of the second season of the show “Big Jazz” have already taken place; producer and People’s Artist of the Russian Federation Dmitry Kharatyan and the Cocktail Project, as well as with the Kalinov Most group and its leader Dmitry Revyakin.

On September 17 at 23:00, Honored Artist of Russia Anna Ardova and director, writer, musician Igor Lebedev, aka Lyoba, and the trombonist Sergey Dolzhenkov’s quintet will meet on stage. The musicians of the Eilenkrig Crew group take part in joint improvisations with the guests.

Anna Ardova and Igor Lebedev have known each other for a long time, they studied together at GITIS. For the audience, they prepared lyrical works based on poems by Marina Tsvetaeva, Osip Mandelstam, as well as Igor Lebedev’s own composition, written in his student years.

Sergei Dolzhenkov is well known to jazz fans. Together with the orchestra of Igor Butman, he performed as a soloist at major jazz festivals. A few years ago, he became the ideological inspirer of his team – the only one in Russia with a leading trombone. In 2020, the quintet presented an album that included author’s compositions in the fusion style and jazz standards in a new reading. Sergei Dolzhenkov and his team will perform them for viewers.

Inna Shkarbanova

Photos provided by the press service of the TV channel “Russia-Culture”