Igor Butman

**Igor Mikhailovich Butman** PAR (Russian; an haife shi 27 ga Oktoba 1961) ɗan wasan jazz ne na Rasha wanda aka haife shi a Leningrad, Tarayyar Soviet (yanzu St. Petersburg, Rasha) a 1961.  Butman yana da 'yan ƙasa biyu ga Amurka da Tarayyar Rasha. An dauke shi dan wasan saxophon mai ƙwarewa, kuma ƙwararren jagora.

Dan wasan saxophon na Amurka Grover Washington, Jr. ya taimaka wajen gabatar da Igor Butman ga masu sauraro na Amurka ta hanyar nuna dan wasan saxophone na Rasha a cikin kundin sa na 1988, *Sa'an nan da Yanzu* . Dan wasan ƙaho na Amurka Wynton Marsalis ya kasance babban zakara na Igor Butman. Bill Clinton ya kira Butman "mai kunna saxophone da ya fi so".

## Rayuwa ta farko
An haifi Igor Butman a Leningrad, USSR a ranar 27 ga Oktoba, 1961  ga mahaifin Bayahude da mahaifiyar Rasha.  Ɗan'uwansa shi ne Oleg Butman, sanannen mawaƙin jazz. A shekara ta 1976 ya shiga Kwalejin Kiɗa ta Rimsky-Korsakov . A shekara ta 1977, ya yanke shawarar sauyawa daga clarinet na gargajiya zuwa saxophone na jazz. Baya ga koyar da shi daga mawaƙa Gennady Goldstein, ya ɗauki darussan al'ada daga watsa shirye-shiryen jazz na dare daga 11:15 na yamma zuwa tsakar dare a Voice of America .

## Ayyuka
A shekara ta 1983, Butman ya taka leda a cikin babban ƙungiyar Oleg Lundstrem. A shekara ta 1984, Nick Levinovsky ya gayyace shi don shiga ƙungiyar jazz "Allegro" kuma ya yi wasa tare da su na tsawon shekaru uku.

### Ka ƙaura zuwa Amurka
Bayan Butman ya yi hijira zuwa Amurka a shekara ta 1987, ya ci gaba da zama babban a cikin Ayyuka da Halitta a Kwalejin Kiɗa ta Berklee a Massachusetts. Yayinda yake a cikin USSR, an gayyaci Butman don yin wasa tare da mawaƙa na Amurka masu yawon shakatawa, ciki har da Dave Brubeck, Chick Korea, Pat Metheny, Gary Burton, Louis Bellson da Grover Washington Jr. Butman ya bayyana a matsayin baƙo na musamman na Grover a cikin kide-kide a Chautauqua, New York, Cibiyar Berklee a Boston da kuma Cibiyar Great Woods a Mansfield, Massachusetts. An nuna shi a kan Grover Washington Jr.'s Columbia release Then and Now (1988) soloing a kan "Stolen Moments", "Stella By Starlight" da kuma Butman kansa abun da ke ciki "French Connections".

A Boston, Butman ya jagoranci ƙungiyarsa tare da Rachel Z. a babban kulob din Jazz na Boston, The Regattabar, kuma an nuna shi tare da Billy Taylor Quartet, Walter Davis Jr. Quartet da Monty Alexander Quintet. Ya bayyana a kan "The Today Show", "Good Morning America" da sauran shirye-shiryen kasa da kasa da yawa. Da yake ƙaura zuwa New York a 1989, Butman ya yi aiki tare da Lionel Hampton Orchestra . A shekara ta 1992, Butman ya rubuta tare da ɗan wasan kwaikwayo / mawaƙa Michael Moriarty's Quintet kundin Live at the Fat Tuesday's a kan DRG Records . A shekara ta 1993, ya fitar da kundin sa na solo Falling Out galibi tare da nasa abun da ya tsara, wanda ya ƙunshi Eddie Gomez a kan bass, Lyle Mays a kan piano da Marvin "Smitty" Smith a kan drum. A shekara mai zuwa Butman ya haɗu da Partners in Time, tare da Gary Burton, a cikin rikodin kundin su Equinost (Intersound).

### Nasarar Jazz da Le Club
Ɗaya daga cikin nasarorin Butman a matsayin mai gabatarwa shine "The Triumph of Jazz", wani bikin da ke faruwa a kowace shekara a cikin manyan dakunan kide-kide na Rasha. Wadanda suka halarci bikin sun hada da TAKE 6, Elvin Jones, Gary Burton, Gino Vanelli, Toots Thielemans, Larry Corryell, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Joey DeFrancesco da sauransu. Sabuwar bikin ya faru ne a Svetlanovsky Hall na Cibiyar Ayyukan Ayyuka ta Duniya ta Moscow kuma ya ƙunshi Ahmad Jamal Trio, Christian Scott Quintet, Igor Butman Big Band, Andrey Kondakov da Brazil All Stars.

Butman ya kasance darektan zane-zane na gidan wasan jazz na Moscow Le Club tun lokacin da aka buɗe shi a 1998 har zuwa rufe shi a 2006. An haɗa Le Club a cikin wuraren jazz na Top100 na Downbeat na duniya. A kulob din Butman ya bayyana kowane Litinin tare da Big Band kuma ya gabatar da karon farko a Rasha irin waɗannan manyan mawaƙa kamar Ray Brown, Wynton Marsalis. Kenny Garrett, Randy Brecker, Al di Meola, Billy Cobham, Take 6 da sauransu da yawa. A shekara ta 2006 jazzman ya kafa sabon kulob a Moscow - Igor Butman Club a Chistie Prudi, magajin shari'a na Le Club, wanda ya zama cibiyar jazz ta gari. A shekara ta 2011 Butman ya bude kulob dinsa na biyu a Sokol.

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