The Second Approach is a jazz/improv/crossover trio, based in Moscow, Russia.
The Second Approach consists of a classically-trained improvising pianist (Andrei Razin,) an improvising Gypsy singer (Tatiana Komova) and a jazz bass player (Igor Ivanushkin).
The Second Approach plays original music written by Andrei Razin. They are not straight-ahead jazz, but they are jazz, nevertheless, definitely unique and really strong in terms of composition/improvisation and overall level of their musicianship.
Over the course of their decade-long career as a group, the trio performed at jazz festivals in Norway, Germany, Poland, Finland, Israel, Bulgaria, Ukraine, Russia and other countries, and in June, 2009, they made a great perfomances at the Rochester International Jazz Festival in USA.
Since 1999, The Second Approach released five albums in Russia and one on German-based NRW label. Their newest album, due out this May, is recorded in Moscow, guest-starring the great Roswell Rudd on the trombone. Another recording, featuring German free jazz drummer Klaus Kugel, is on the way.
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