Oleg Maximov Guitarist

Oleg Maximov - Guitarist

Oleg Maximov is a professional musician, a guitar player, an arranger, a music transcription and notation specialist currently based in Groningen, the Netherlands.

He has studied several different styles of guitar playing, from swing and big-band era jazz to bebop, modern jazz, and fusion. He has also studied blues, pop and classical music. His musical training also included studying composition, arranging, harmony and audio engineering. He has studied with some of the top Russian teachers, whose students also included Grammy-winning trumpeter Alex Sipiagin and the Mingus Big-Band bassist, Boris Kozlov.

For the past several years Oleg has worked professionally as a guitarist in a variety of bands and orchestras in Moscow. He has participated and became a laureate in several music competitions in Russia, such as "Gnesin-Jazz," "Piano in Jazz," "The Many Faces of Guitar", "Guitar Virtuosos" and some others.

Moving to Netherlands

Recently I moved for a constant living to the city of Groningen, the Netherlands.

While I'm building up my life here there could be a delay in answering your messages and orders.

Please be patient, I'll get to answering to all of you soon!

Oleg Maximov Quartet - Runner’s High

Runner's High - it's a state of the body accompanied by feelings of euphoria. Marathon runners know that drugged-like state after a long distance run. It comes as a body's response to pain. Then anger comes. Then acceptance. Relief. The Wall is laid behind, and here last kilometers come and finally you're high.

Personalities of the video:

Oleg Maximov — guitar
Denis Markin — piano
Teodor Faber — bass
Zinoviev Kirill — drums
Andrey Pilipenko — audio
Egor Yurchenko — video

Recorda-me — Oleg Maximov Quartet

Recorda-me (Joe Henderson) is a jazz standard that is often played at jam sessions.

We play this tune often on jam sessions and don't even think what does the name mean. This word, modified into English manner, originally in Spanish written as "recuérdame" means "Remember me". We would like to be remembered as we are at this video.

Personalities of the video:

Oleg Maximov — guitar

Denis Markin — piano

Fedor Faber — bass

Kirill Zinoviev — drums

Andrey Pilipenko — audio

Egor Yurchenko — video

My Funny Valentine — Oleg Maximov Quartet

My Funny Valentine — for many it’s just a jazz standard, one more beautiful ballad. But it's a personal song for me. Valentines are being presented for those who does not even know that they are being loved. But this valentine is different — She definitely knows, that this is for Her. But whom we actually love? Do we love a physically existing human being with merits and weaknesses? Or do we love a perfect image captured by our subconcious? I do not have a distinct answer, but I trully know that every time I play My Funny Valentine — I'm talking to loved woman.

Personalities of the video:

Oleg Maximov — guitar

Denis Markin — piano

Fedor Faber — bass

Kirill Zinoviev — drums

Andrey Pilipenko — audio

Egor Yurchenko — video

Following Jazzmashin — Oleg Maximov Quartet Live at Esse Don Jazz Club

Following Jazzmashin - it's a piece of music dedicated to Russian jazz musician and a huge fan of running - Sasha Mashin. One day Sasha proposed to carry out into nothingness a terrible year of 2020 by running a marathon distance on 31st of December. Of course, I've immediatley jumped into that adventure! During the first half of a distance it was raining. Than a temperature fall bellow 0 degrees Celsius, and everything what wasn't covered with snow, was covered with ice. We were running through Moscow, and somewhere after 30th kilometer I was completely out of energy. It was incredibly difficult, and I dreamt to stop hundred times. But Sasha was running a couple of meters ahead, and following jazzmashin I finally finished the distance!

Personalities of the video:

Oleg Maximov — guitar

Denis Markin — piano

Teodor Faber — bass

Zinoviev Kirill — drums

Andrey Pilipenko — audio

Egor Yurchenko — video