Oleg Maximov Guitarist

Oleg Maximov - Guitarist

Oleg Maximov is a professional musician, a guitar player, an arranger, a music transcription and notation specialist.

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.

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

Ave Maria by Texas based composer Jonathan Geer

I've recorded the guitar parts for this exceptionally beautiful song!

Song For Bilbao (by Pat Metheny) — Oleg Maximov Quartet

On Green Dolphin Street — Oleg Maximov Quartet

Equinox — Oleg Maximov Quartet

Blues For Sudzhian — Oleg Maximov Quartet

Step Aside — Oleg Maximov Quartet

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