PERFORMANCE/TOUR: Seattle Times: A Russian Jazz-Classical Fusion at Benaroya Hall

Although he was born and raised in the former Soviet Union, Igor Butman’s life was destined to have an American flavor to it. His father was, of all things, a drummer in a Dixieland jazz band, the best in all of Leningrad. The opportunities to listen to and play jazz were few, but the young Butman found them...

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