Oleg Butman

Oleg Butman Mikhailovich (Russian Олег Михайлович Бутман, born July 9, 1966 in Leningrad ) is a Russian jazz drummer.

Oleg Butman is the younger brother of jazz saxophonist Igor Butman, with whom he worked repeatedly. At eight, he began playing the drums, with 15 years he was a member of the Russian rock band " Telewisor ".

In 1983, Oleg Butman started on Mussorgsky College of Music to study in St. Petersburg and played in the College Orchestra. During this time he performed at the St. Petersburg Jazz Festival with saxophonist Valery Sukow. From 1984 to 1987 he was a member of the Quartet of his brother; In 1988 he accompanied the American saxophonist Richie Cole on a tour of Russia. 1988 drew Oleg Butman to Moscow, where he performed with gas- animal border American musicians such as Jon Faddis, Billy Taylor, Grover Washington Jr. and Pat Metheny in "Blue Bird" jazz club.

1990 was Oleg Butman the country to study in the United States and work. He attended the Berklee College of Music in Boston, then moved to New York, where he worked among others with Metheny, Monty Alexander, Harvie Swartz, Joe Locke and Eddie Gomez. In 1997, he collaborated on the album " Nostalgia" his brother Igor; In 1998 he went with enem project called Four Brothers on a Russian tour. In 2001 he visited Russia with his American quartet, in which the tenor saxophonist Craig Handy played. He also worked at this time with Mark Whitfield, Vincent Herring and Larry Willis.

2007 wrote Oleg Butman music for the pianist Natalia Smirnova; with her was also another solo album by Butman, Jazz Passion.

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