SAX MAFIA
Eduard Sivkov - baritone, tenor, C-Melody, alto, soprano saxophones, bass clarinet
Nikolay Rubanov - bass, baritone, tenor, alto and soprano saxophones, bass clarinet
Sergey Letov - bass, baritone, tenor, C-Melody, soprano saxophones, bass clarinet
Yury Yaremchuk - tenor and soprano saxophones, bass clarinet
SAX MAFIA is the first saxophone quartet in the Soviet/Post-Soviet
space, all the members of which are both improvisers and authors.
Nikolay Rubanov is
well known as saxophonist of rock band "AuctYon",
as a leader of "Union
of Commercial Avant-Garde"; Edward Sivkov plays in folk group
"Ne Te", in the various projects by Vlad Makarov, in Moscow
Composers Orchestra, Yury Yaremchuk played in "Moscow Composers
Orchestra", "3Ya",
Sergey Letov is known as founder of the oldest Russian free jazz
trio "Tri-O", plays in rock bands
"Civil Defense", DDT a.o.
All the members of SAX-MAFIA live in different locations: Rubanov - in St. Petersburg, Sivkov - in Sevastopol, Yaremchuk - in Moscow suburbs, and
Sergey Letov - in Moscow. The first performance of a quartet took place at
Cultural Center DOM in Moscow.
Yury Sivkov found the project in February 2002.
"SAX-MAFIA" released 2 albums: SAX-MAFIA by HOR Records - Concert in the DOM (quartet) " and CD-R "ethno.ru" (concert in Tyumen, trio) on Sergey Letov's label PENTAGRAMMA.
Fragment of live performance of Russian Saxophone Mafia trio (Letov-Rubanov-Sivkov) on 26.02.2009 at Saint Petersburg was included in the release 'Experimental Sound Gallery ESG-21 Vol.3' (CD, 2009).
A Flat by Kolick Rubanov
Dolby by Eduard Sivkov
"Lyko" by Kolick Rubanov
Latino by Sergey Letov
Blues for Charlotte Corday by Sergey Letov
5/4 by Eduard Sivkov
ethno.ru by Eduard Sivkov
Pentagramma by Sergey Letov
Concert in Moscow, DOM, 16/09/07 Charlotte Corday' Blues and start of Ethno.ru
SAX-MAFIA + Vlad Bystrov, DOM, October 2007. Terrorism by Sergey Letov
SAXOPHONIA
mp3 :
- Dolby (Eduard Sivkov)
- 5/4 (Eduard Sivkov)
- Like A Moving Of Seasons (Sergey Letov)
- Ethno.ru (Eduard Sivkov)
- Pentagramma (Sergey Letov)
- Terrorism - music for the Taganka Theatre performance "Marat and Marquis de Sade" (Sergey Letov)
- Lyko by Kolick Rubanov
- Latino y Sergey Letov
- Charlotta Corday' Blues
"SAX-MAFIA" played concerts in Moscow, Tyumen, Vologda, St. Petersburg, Berlin, Hamburg, Duesseldorf, Bonn, Mainz, Speyer, Bamberg, Nuremberg, Regensburg, Dresden, Vilnius, Lvov, Tula, Nizhniy Novgorod, Smolensk, London.
Photo galleries - London Jazz Festival/Russian ACT -
- at Barbican Art Centre - Free Stage 23 November 2007
- The Royal Festival Hall - 24 November 2007
- Ray's Jazz Shop - 24 November 2007