Vadim Neselovskyi - Odesa (2022) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Music always tells a story. But sometimes this is particularly haunting. For example, on this album. Sometimes the sounds fall like snowflakes, as if it were an impromptu by Robert Schumann, the play is called "Winter in Odessa". Then again, the number is called "Central Station", a beat powerfully drives forward, you can hear trains arriving and departing, although everything is just solo piano.

No matter if you love classical music or jazz or chanson or ragtime – all this becomes one here. Some passages remind a little of the pieces of Charlie Chaplin, who also composed, or of George Gershwin, especially of the "American in Paris" – powerful music, very intellectual, but still full of swing. And then comes a solo, such a striking and clear improvisation, which effortlessly reaches the top level of current jazz.

The man who plays the piano so brilliantly is called Vadim Neselovskyi. He has a German and a Ukrainian passport. He is a professor at the Berklee College of Music in Boston, the best music school in the world. He plays with the greatest of jazz. Hardly anyone in this country knows the 44-year-old. That should change - now with his album "Odesa". This refers to Odessa, the megacity on the Black Sea, where rockets are currently hitting. Neselovskyi did not suspect about this when recording, he worked on the album for two years, shortly before the outbreak of war it was ready.

TRACKLIST

01. Vadim Neselovskyi - Intro to Odesa Railway Station
02. Vadim Neselovskyi - Odesa Railway Station
03. Vadim Neselovskyi - Winter in Odesa
04. Vadim Neselovskyi - Potemkin Stairs
05. Vadim Neselovskyi - Acacia Trees
06. Vadim Neselovskyi - Waltz of Odesa Conservatory
07. Vadim Neselovskyi - Odesa 1941
08. Vadim Neselovskyi - Intro to Jewish Dance
09. Vadim Neselovskyi - Jewish Dance
10. Vadim Neselovskyi - Interlude 1
11. Vadim Neselovskyi - My First Rock Concert
12. Vadim Neselovskyi - Interlude 2
13. Vadim Neselovskyi - The Renaissance of Odesa



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