STEKPANNA
in collaboration with
Leonid & Nikolai VINTSKEVICH
and special guest
Steve WATERMAN
With their latest CD ‘Starlight Barking’ now mixed and ready for mastering, the Stekpanna trio of Mads Kjølby (Guitar), Steve Kershaw (Double Bass) and Petter Svärd (Drums) will once again team up with Russian jazz stars Leonid and Nikolai Vintskevich (piano; saxes) to present a series of performances full of their characteristic deep groves, driving swing, quirky melodies, wit and humour. The splendid Steve Waterman will substitute for Mads at the Marlborough Festival.
On the back of a sell-out concert at the Rachmaninov Hall in Moscow, and a performance at the Krapivna Festival at Yasnaya Polyana, at the personal invitation of Count Vladimir Tolstoy, the great-great grandson of the mighty author Leo, the Anglo-Russo-Scandinavian ensemble will be playing a number of Stekpanna’s old favourites, plus some exciting new compositions from ‘Starlight Barking’, and drawing heavily on Songs From the Black Earth.
Songs from the Black Earth, shows Stekpanna's poised, spacious grooves and understated musicianship to be the perfect setting for the Russian duo's wistful, folk-inspired melodies.
ABI BLISS – METRO, September 2008
The title comes from an Osip Mandelstam poem, and their chief inspiration from the same source as Mandelstam's: ..Russia..'s fertile and beautiful black earth region, centred on ....Voronezh..... Saxophonist Nick Vintskevitch wrote most of the material, quiet, folk-inflected, elegant music thoughtfully addressed by a tastefully restrained band that probably prides itself on purity of tone, emphasising the beauty and shape of the pieces' affecting melodies. This is not to say that there are no passages of robust intensity or even fierce interplay in compositions such as the plangent opener 'Alone', or the quartet's intriguing visit to the traditional New Orleans staple 'When the Saints Go Marching In', just that to considerable effect the band's priorities lie elsewhere, the Vintskevitches (Nick the flawless saxophonist, Leonid the versatile pianist), UK bassist Steve Kershaw and Swedish drummer Petter Svärd concentrating, above all else, on sheer sonic seductiveness.
CHRIS PARKER - THE VORTEX, April 2009
THE GIG DATES:
SATURDAY 4th July: 11:00 am
Cambridge Jazz Cooperative: Workshop
THE MAN ON THE MOON,
01223 565396
£8 (£6/£3)
SATURDAY 4th July: 7:30 pm
Deddington Festival
Parish Church, DEDDINGTON
01869 338325 or www.deddingtonfestival.org.uk/festival
£5. Sponsored by GC International Consulting Group
SUNDAY 5th July: 12:45 pm
The Hand and Shears
01993 883337
Now under new management. Admission is free, the food is fine and the beer is great. Just the original Stekpanna trio here (no Russians on this one – there isn’t much space!)
SUNDAY 5th July: 8.00 pm
The White Swan
(01789 297022) or www.stratfordjazz.org.uk
£8. Pre-Jazz Dinner in the new dining room: £24.50 ea. for 2 courses & a free glass of house wine & FREE jazz entry (worth £8) plus reduced Room Rates.
THURSDAY 9th July: 7.30 pm
Merton College, Oxford
Special performance by Leonid & Nikolai Vintskevitch and Steve Kershaw for University of Berkeley California.
Private event: admission by invitation only
SATURDAY 11TH JULY: 12.30-2.30 PM
MARLBOROUGH INTERNATIONAL JAZZ FESTIVAL
Crown Hotel, 7 The Parade, MARLBOROUGH, Wilts
(01672 515 095) www.marlboroughjazz.co.uk
STEVE WATERMAN ON TRUMPET FOR THIS ONE
SONGS FROM THE BLACK EARTH, IS NOW AVAILABLE ON THE SLAM LABEL (SLAMCD 277): WWW.SLAMPRODUCTIONS.NET
www.jazzeddie.f2s.com
