YAKOV OKUN
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Amongst the international fraternity of improvisers who play in Russia, the abilities of the Moscow-based pianist Yakov Okun are anything but a well-kept secret. At 38, Okun “who leads a strong all-Russian trio with Makar Novikov on bass and Alexander Mashin on drums, and also sidemans with the profound trumpeter German Lukyanov “has toured both in Europe and his homeland with a multi-generational cohort of luminaries, a short-list of which includes Lew Tabackin, James Spaulding, Eddie Henderson, Craig Handy, Mark Turner, Donny McCaslin, Jimmy Greene, Alex Sipiagin, Gary Smulyan, Larry Schneider, and Jeremy Pelt.
“My first records were Duke Ellington, Horace Silver, Charles Mingus with Eric Dolphy and Jaki Byard “the highest, best-taste music,” Okun says of the first principles that guide his musical production. “It’s a main point of how I want to play.”
The records to which Okun refers belonged to his father, Mikhail Okun, one of the most prominent
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