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

Step Aside is a tune written by a saxophonist Bob Reynolds with which he has somehow predicted the pandemic situation and the way to overcome all the difficulties. Suddenly the civilization has come into a not to get the choice situation when it's absolutely impossible to live a life we used to. Step Aside is a way to change habits, go away out of comfort zone and therefore to invent a solution for difficulties we face.

Personalities of the video:

Oleg Maximov — guitar

Denis Markin — piano

Fedor Faber — bass

Kirill Zinoviev — drums

Andrey Pilipenko — audio

Egor Yurchenko — video

One of the main magazines of Rostov writing about culture in the city has released an article about my quartet. It's written in Russian, sorry, but the key feauture is that we were placed on the main page of their website:

Click here to read the article

This is my author arrangement of a famous jazz standard Song For My Father by Horace Silver recorded live in the bar O.W.Grant on 14th of march 2021.

On the bandstand with me:

— Anton Svetlichny - piano

— Oleg Solomko - bass guitar

— Kirill Zinoviev - drums

— Andrey Pilipenko - sound

— Egor Yurchenko - video

It's a blues tune dedicated to my guitar teacher at Moscow State College of Jazz - Michael (Mukuch) Sudzhian, recorded live in the bar O.W.Grant on 14th of march 2021. When I was doing my second year at college I took part in a competition called "Many-faced Guitar". After passing into 3rd round I had to play a solo over blues. But the case was to grab a card with randomly written key, time signature and tempo. I've received a card with B major, 6/8, fast tempo. Of course, I screwed it up that time! But years go by, and now B major starting to be more comfortable key to play. 

On the bandstand with me:

— Anton Svetlichny - piano

— Oleg Solomko - bass guitar

— Kirill Zinoviev - drums

— Andrey Pilipenko - sound

— Egor Yurchenko - video

This is my author arrangement of a tune Recorda-Me by Joe Henderson played live in the bar O.W.Grant on 14th of march 2021.

On the bandstand with me:

— Anton Svetlichny - piano

— Oleg Solomko - bass guitar

— Kirill Zinoviev - drums

— Andrey Pilipenko - sound

— Egor Yurchenko - video

This is my author arrangement of a famous jazz standard On Green Dolphin Street by Bronisław Kaper recorded live in the bar O.W.Grant on 14th of march 2021.

On the bandstand with me:

— Anton Svetlichny - piano

— Oleg Solomko - bass guitar

— Kirill Zinoviev - drums

— Andrey Pilipenko - sound

— Egor Yurchenko - video

Following Jazzmashin - it's a piece of music dedicated to Russian jazz musician and a huge fan of running - Alexander 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!

This is my author piece of music recorded live in the bar O.W.Grant on 14th of march 2021. On the bandstand with me:

— Anton Svetlichny - piano

— Oleg Solomko - bass guitar

— Kirill Zinoviev - drums

— Andrey Pilipenko - sound

— Egor Yurchenko - video

This is my author arrangement of a famous ballad My Funny Valentine by Richard Rodgers played live in the bar O.W.Grant on 14th of march 2021. 

On the bandstand with me: 
— Anton Svetlichny - piano 
— Oleg Solomko - bass guitar 
— Kirill Zinoviev - drums 
— Andrey Pilipenko - sound 
— Egor Yurchenko - video

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. And that's perfectly legal!

This is my author piece of music recorded live in the bar O.W.Grant on 14th of march 2021. On the bandstand with me:

— Anton Svetlichny - piano

— Oleg Solomko - bass guitar

— Kirill Zinoviev - drums

— Andrey Pilipenko - sound

— Egor Yurchenko - video