Alex Fantaev http://www.alexfantaev.com/eng – one of the best known Ukrainian jazz drummers – is on tour in Berlin this week, and he puts a quartet together w/ fellow Ukrainian musicians, currently residing here in the city.
Yevgeniy Pugachov – electric guitar
Ganna Gryniva – voice
Guivain Gamon – double bass
Alex Fantaev – a famous Ukrainian drummer and composer. Studied at Rimon School of Jazz and Contemporary Music Israel. Played with: Cafe Da Silva, Marek Balata, Eric Marienthal, Lew Soloff, Marc Soskin, Francois Jeanneau, Kenny “Blues Boss” Wayne, Erich Kleinschuster, Gabin, Leonid Ptashka, Arkadiy Shilkloper, Zemfira… Working with Night Groove, Er.J.Orchestra, Solomin Band, Kiev Art Ensemble, Natalya Lebedeva Trio, Yuliya Roma, Swing Brothers, Dnipro Orchestra…
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Yevgeniy Pugachev is a jazz guitarist and composer, whose origins are from Kharkiv, Ukraine. He has worked with many famous Ukrainian musicians, such as Anna Chaikovska, Sergei Davidov, etc. After winning a schoolarship from Polish Ministry of Culture, he moved to Warsaw where he started to collaborate with different European musicians: John Beasley, Novald Dahl, David Sundby, Dwight Tribble, as well as Joel Holmes (USA). Currently Yevgeniy lives in Berlin, where he is quite active on the local jazz scene.
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Ganna Gryniva is a young Ukrainian jazz singer who is living, creating and playing music in Berlin. Born in Siberia, grown up in Ukraine and Germany, Ganna is searching for a way to express her multiculturalism through music. As a daughter of a classical pianist, she started studying piano at the age of 6. When she and her family moved to Germany in 2002, Ganna began to study classical singing. In the following years she participated in numerous choirs and bands, singing classical music, pop, rock, musical, jazz, traditional African music, reggae and ska.
Having gone through different musical styles, Ganna found out that Jazz is giving her the most satisfying way of making music, speaking, and expressing herself. In her musical projects Ganna is always trying to use the Jazz language as the main tool, mixing it with other genres.
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Gauvain Gamon is a jazz double-bassist and teacher originally from Lyon, France. He graduated from the Conservatoire National de Region de Lyon.
He has performed in many French jazz festivals like Jazz à Vienne, A Vaulx Jazz, Crest Jazz Vocal and in many jazz clubs: Sunside/Sunset, Crescent Jazz Club, Hot Club de Lyon…
Gamon traveled several times to NYC where he met musicians like Joseph Lepore or Drew Gress among others.
He currentely lives in Berlin where he can express himself on the local jazz scene.