Los
Angeles, California - III Records
proudly announces the release of Ira
& Igor. This 52-minute
CD features
Ira
Schulman on flutes, tenor
saxophone, clarinet, and
Igor
on Guitar, collectively known as new
reincarnation of OGOGO.
Recorded
in the Peacock Studio, Ira &
Igor documents the True American
sound ; rooted in the classical and
jazz tradition, vibrant, free and
continually moving forward.
Igor
has been performing since his teen
years with various groups, both as
leader and as a sideman. His
ensemble, "Roof", founded
in Europe, was a tour de force of
avant-garde music that drew critical
acclaim, and helped establish
Moscow, an eastern European city, as
an important place of highly
creative improvisational music.
Igor's
tone is reminiscent of that big late
50s guitar sound, fused with an edge
that comes from surviving the
assault of the 60s. However, Igor's
tone is only the background for
writing style that forces the
listener's spirit to fly beyond the
restrains of our daily limitations
and boundaries. On the sheer power
of his own strength, Igor
has survived against great odds to
keep an artistic vision filled with
sense of purpose, heart, and
imagination.
Ira
Schulman has been a powerful
force for few decades in keeping
jazz idiom alive and in the front of
many listeners' consciousness.
A
veteran of number of recording
projects, Ira strikes to continually
develop an art from and refuses to
repeat himself.
Ira
and Igor have
performed together in may concert
and club situations, but OGOGO Ira
& Igor represents the
first time these two Los Angeles
musicians have documented their art
in the studio.
All
compositions written by
Igor
(ASCAP)
