Igor Bril

Pianist Igor Bril’s tour of america in 1988 along with his quartet helped display Americans that, furthermore to avant-garde music plus some dixieland, bebop was alive in the Soviet Union. Bril experienced led a trio as soon as the middle-1960’s and, although jazz was officially discouraged in the home, he offers were able to play jazz throughout a lot of his existence. He caused rings led by Yuri Saulsky (1966-69), Aleksey Kozlov and German Luk’yanow before piecing together his personal septet (1972-81) and a quintet that toured through the entire USSR, Communist European countries and Cuba. He in addition has been a jazz educator in his homeland since 1969. After considerable plans, Igor Bril and his quartet (with saxophonist Alexander Oseichuk, bassist Victor Dvoskin and guitarist Alexei Kuznetsov) could actually tour america in past due 1988 within a social exchange program using the U.S.S.R. Their last American appearance in the Town Gate, was documented and later on released like a Compact disc by Mobile phone Fidelity. Bril experienced also made several information for the Russian Melodija label as soon as 1965. Remarkably with nov communism, very little has been noticed from Igor Bril beyond Russia recently.