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Polyphonic Circle

by Karina Kozhevnikova & Krugly Band

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So What 10:07
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2.
Round About Midnight 10:54
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3.
Strolling 07:31
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4.
Doctor Jesus 07:15
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5.
I Mean You 06:53
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6.
My Man`s Gone 09:20
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The Blessing 11:00
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8.
You`ve Changed 07:45
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9.
Bouncing with Bud 05:47
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10.
Lonely Woman 07:26
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Annotation by Alexey Kruglov:

It is a great honor for me to implement the Polyphonic Circle project and release the album on Leo Records. We created this program with the best Russian jazz singer, one of the leaders of the vocal Russian school, Karina Kozhevnikova. The idea of the program is to create the polyphonic sound based on the music of iconic jazzmen and composers, who played at the intersection of melody and improvisation, made references to the Third Stream, searched for the unity between jazz in its different polystylistic spaces and academic music, moved many art directions towards each other. In each composition, we took a certain key element and developed it in a conceptual way, sometimes bringing it to the limit, to the point of absurdity, trying to embody the original images where well-known melodies acquire new colors and meanings.

We recorded this album with my big friends in the Krugly Band, amazing musicians — a bass player Nikolay Zatolochny and a drummer Petr Ivshin. They developed the ideas of our arrangements with Karina diversifying them with their own decisions where each composition turned out to be a special story, and the whole dramaturgy of the double album lined up very harmoniously. Each of them brought to the project their own vision, something unique, so that the album is like a metaphorical circle that absorbed all the diversity of jazz and our imagination and an assumption about the direction in which jazz music could be going.

We are grateful to Igor Fleyshman for supporting the recording and creation of this album! Igor continues the path of the great Russian patrons of the 19th and 20th centuries. Thanks to such incredible people, art in Russia continues to live, being filled with new ideas! Big thanks to the great Australian singer Michelle Nicolle for allowing us to use the text of her sister Tamara in Ornette Coleman's The Blessing! Also a big thank to Renat Gataulin for the great photo we used in the design!

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released March 7, 2023

POLYPHONIC CIRCLE. CD 1:

1. So What (Miles Davis / Eddie Jefferson)
2. Round About Midnight (Thelonious Monk / Bernard Hanighen)
3. Strolling (Horace Silver / Dominique Eade)
4. Doctor Jesus (George Gershwin / DuBose Heyward)
5. I Mean You (Thelonious Monk, Coleman Hawkins / Jon Hendricks)

POLYPHONIC CIRCLE. CD 2:

1. (6) My Man`s Gone Now (George Gershwin / DuBose Heyward)
2. (7) The Blessing (Ornette Coleman / Tamara Nicolle)
3. (8) You`ve Changed (Carl Fischer / Bill Carey)
4. (9) Bouncing With Bud (Bud Powell)
5. (10) Lonely Woman (Ornette Coleman / Margo Guryan)

Karina Kozhevnikova — vocal
Krugly Band:
Alexey Kruglov — alto saxophone
Nikolay Zatolochny — double bass
Petr Ivshin — drums

Music by Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, Coleman Hawkins, Horace Silver, George Gershwin, Ornette Coleman, Carl Fischer,
Bud Powell

Arrangements by Karina Kozhevnikova and Alexey Kruglov

Recorded at CineLab SoundMix (Moscow region) on November 23-25, 2022
Recorded, edited, mixed and mastered by Ruslan Zaipold
Design by Alexander Medvedev
Photos inside the digipack by Alexander Medvedev and Renat Gataulin
Photos in the booklet by Leonid Selemenev
Photo for the front cover by Karina Kozhevnikova
Produced by Alexey Kruglov
The album is supported by Igor Fleyshman

Leo Records
CD LR 936/937

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ALEXEY KRUGLOV Russia

Alexey Kruglov is a Moscow musician, performer, director, poet, actor, one of the leaders of new jazz and performative scene in Russia an organizer of Leo Records Festival in Russia, owner of the Krugly Band group, art director of Art Circle club.

«I have seen the future of jazz and his name is Alexey Kruglov» (Duncan Heining, «Jazz Wise», England, 2011) ... more

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