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December 2011 The CD on NoBusiness Records "Upcoming Hurricane" with Pascal Niggenkemper (bass) and Gerald Cleaver (drums) receives great reviews and is named one of the best albums of 2011 by The New York Jazz Record magazine. |
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October 2011 New DVD release on PanRec label - "Moods and Modes" Nils Wogram - Simon Nabatov duo. |
September 2011 New CD release on NoBusiness Records "Upcoming Hurricane" with Pascal Niggenkemper (bass) and Gerald Cleaver (drums) |
August 2011 New 4 videos of Simon Nabatov playing in duo with the Brazilian percussion player Mimmo Ferreira published on youtube. Watch them here |
New 4 videos of the Ensemble Futurrr published on youtube. Watch them here |
New CD release on Leo Records (LR 607) - "Square Down" with Nabatov - Reijseger - Schubert. Listen to some tracks here |
Simon Nabatov is now on Facebook access the profile |
Simon Nabatov completes the residence in Porto Alegre. It was an extremely enriching experience, musically, as well as personally. Read about it in the BLOG - there or here. |
July 2011 Simon Nabatov starts the 2 months stay in Brazil, 6 weeks of it being the artist in residence from Goethe-Institut in Porto Alegre. Follow the blog here |
February 2011 Plushmusic releases the video "Moods and Modes" of Nils Wogram - Simon Nabatov duo. Filmed at the Radio Zurich Studio, it documents the recording of the CD of the same title. |
January 2011 New jazz label NWOG-Records releases the CD "Moods and Modes" of Nils Wogram - Simon Nabatov duo. |
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December 2010 3 vidio clips of the quintet "Roundup" are on youtube, one can watch it here or there. It's also a sneak preview of a DVD scheduled to be released in 2011 on PanRec. |
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November 2010 Trio Hayden Chisholm - Simon Nabatov - Jochen Rueckert records a new program of Hayden's music, Nabatov playing Fender Rhodes. Number of concerts and CD release are planned in 2011. |
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A small independent music video label PanRec releases DVD "Simon Nabatov plays Herbie Nichols", filmed live as a part of the 2nd PlushMusic Festival in Loft, Cologne. |
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Goethe-Institut in Munich awards Nabatov with an "Artist in Residence" in Porto Alegre, Brazil, for 2011. Various musical activities - rehearsals, concerts, recording, workshops - will be part of the stay. |
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September 2010 The duo Wogram - Nabatov makes a four-week long Goethe-Institut tour of South and Central Americas, which takes them to Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Chile, Venezuela and Mexico. Very exciting, lots of impressions and new friends. |
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New quintet CD "Roundup" with Nils Wogram, Matthias Schubert, Ernst Reijseger and Tom Rainey is released on Leo Records |
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May 2010 Simon Nabatov and "Ensemble Futurrr" - with Jaap Blonk, Frank Gratkowski, Marcus Schmickler and Gerry Hemingway - perform Nabatov's new program "Gilea revisited" as a part of the MusikTriennale Cologne 2010. |
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The WDR Big Band of Cologne performs music of Simon Nabatov (arranged by the great Michael Abene) as a part of the Piano Ruhr Festival 2010. |
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April 2010 Trio Gratkowski - Nabatov - Schmickler releases CD "Deployment" on Leo Records |
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March 2010 An exciting concert in duo with Nils Wogram at the BimHuis Festival, Amsterdam. Watch a video captured by the VPRO Radio. Participation in the Cologne's own NOZART Festival, playing with Xu Fengxia and Martin Blume. Follow-up on the collaboration with Hayden Chisholm, in Loft Cologne - a duo of Brazilian music, followed by the set in trio with the drummer Jonas Burgwinkel, playing 6 new originals by Hayden. |
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February 2010 A wonderful one-week stay in Athens, Greece. A solo concert at the Goethe-Institut outlet, followed by a performance in trio at the Parafono Jazzclub were only a fraction of the exciting activities, mainly involving climbing up and down the various historical sights, visiting countless museums and, most importantly, meeting wonderful warm-hearted people who made this trip extremely rewarding. |
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January 2010 2 concerts with the facsinating program of multi-media works revolving around piano - pieces by the composer and improviser hans w. koch and the conceptual artist Jens Brand, as well as compositional contribution by S. Nabatov. In preparations for the concerts (in Dortmund and Muenster) - the most delightful visit of Juergen Hocker's house, the man being the champion of Conlon Nancarrow's music, easily world-wide. |
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December 2009 2 days in Amsterdam, spent really well: a concert on the dOeK Festival in BimHuis, with Wolter Wierbos (trombone) plus the old New York trio - Drew Gress (bass) and Tom Rainey (drums); hearing some wonderful music, played by the colleagues...Next day - a most satisfying recording session in Bim with the same quartet... |
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A 5-day project "Roundup" takes place in Cologne. It results in 3 concerts, 3 recording sessions and, most likely, 3 CD's - 2 different trios and the quintet. The marvelous band included Nils Wogram (trombone), Matthias Schubert (tenor saxophone), Ernst Reijseger (cello) and Tom Rainey (drums). |
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October 2009 The
CD "Nicht
Ohne Robert Vol. 1"
is released on the Cologne label JazzHausMusik; the band
includes Rudi Mahall (bass clarinet), Robert Landfermann
(bass) and Christian Lillinger (drums)
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S.
Nabatov performs Hayden Chisholm's "Fata Morgana" suite
(based on the recently recorded music for a short film by
Rebecca Horn). It takes place at the renowned Kronberg Cello
Festival and is perfomed with
Claudio
Bohorquez
(cello), Hayden
Chisholm (asax,
bcl) and Gareth
Lubbe
(viola, voice). |
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September 2009 S.
Nabatov participates in the "Cologne Music Night" (a huge
annual event of around 400 concerts), presenting his new
Chico Buarque program in the WDR broadcasting hall, with the
live transmission. |
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July 2009 Nils
Wogram and Simon Nabatov record at the radio studio DRS 2,
Zurich, Switzerland
the British internet label PLUSHMUSIC.TV was there +++ a new internet release coming soon+++ |
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"
Simon Nabatov plays Herbie Nichols" --- a new solo
release
on the British internet label PLUSHMUSIC.TV - get the HD video and hi-fi audio here |
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June 2009 "
A Felicidade " - a set of solo performances of Brazilian
music, captured in LOFT,
is released on the British internet label PLUSHMUSIC.TV - get the hi-fi audio here |
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May 2009 Two
duo recordings "discovered" in the personal archives many
years later: the Amsterdam concert with the great late Steve
Lacy and a duo recording with the wonderful American reed
player/composer Michael Moore.
Listen here |
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April 2009 Beginning
of May Simon Nabatov will perform a few concerts in the USA,
both solo and with bands.
The appearances will include a double bill with Geri Allen in Rahway (New Jersey), solo concerts in Easton (Pennsylvania) and Hamtramck (Michigan) and several events in New Orleans (Louisiana) |
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April
20 - 24 Simon Nabatov is an artist in residence at the
Cologne Conservatory, giving master classes and an ensemble
workshop, culminating in the concert of the workshop band in
LOFT |
March 2009 19.
03. - WDR 3 Cologne broadcasts an interview/portrait of
Simon Nabatov |
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February 2009 The
Plushmusic
Festival in
LOFT (Cologne, February 5 - 8) saw Nabatov perform a solo
concert of Herbie Nichols music, two "bonus" sets in duo
with the great Brazilian new music pianist
Paulo
Alvarez
and a 3 - tune collaboration with Hayden Chisholm's "New
Cool" band, including Phil Donkin on bass and Jochen
Rueckert on drums.
All of it (and much more) will be soon available on plushmusic.tv |
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new
duo!
Hayden
Chisholm - Simon Nabatov listen
to some excerpts here |
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January 2009 |
December 2008 Simon
Nabatov participates on the great new music
portal watch
the videos on the plushmusic.tv
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