 Music style
Jazz, Contemporary, Oriental Music
Musical influences
Russian Classics, Miles Davis, Thelonius Monk, Charlie Mingus
Jazz Gallery acquired its name in January of 1995, when a compact disk under this title was recorded by Nikolai Panov's group. But in fact, The Nikolai Panov band started its activity in 1987, when LP Virgo was recorded and released. They have performed at Pori Jazz Festival, Indian Music Festival, IAJE, Eurojazz-98 to name just a few. In the period of 1992-1997 Jazz Gallery presented many interesting ?portraits? of instrumentalists and vocalists from Europe and USA. Among them are Jeffery Smith, Deborah Bown, Herve Sellen, Jean Bardy.
Group members
Nikolai Panov - composer, arranger, leader, tenor and soprano saxophone, flute. Yurij Parfenov - composer, trumpet, altohorn, fluegelhorn. Ivan Volkov - clarinet, alto and baritone sax. Vitalij Solomonov - acoustic and electric bass. Edvard Zizak - drums. Lev Kushnir - piano, keyboards.
Instruments
trumpet, fluegelhorh, altohorn, clarinet, altosax, tenorsax, baritonsax, flute, piano, doublebass, drums
Albums
Virgo - LP (1987), Indian Project CD(1993), Jazz Gallery CD(1995)
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