Jazz Legend Valery Ponomarev "Trumpeter from Russia". Documentary and Jazz

The film " Trumpeter From Russia" is about a legendary jazz trumpeter Valeri Ponomarev. In 1973, Valeri Ponomarev, a 30-year old Moscow musician left like a stalker for the capitalism zone the USA, while in New York he penetrated into yet another "zone" he became an acknowledged trumpeter 1 in the world capital of black jazz; for five years he has been playing in "The Jazz Messengers" of Art Blakey - the best jazz orchestra. Today, "twice stalker" Valeri Ponomarev is in the top ten trumpeters of the world. He has a big band in New York and a similar orchestra "The Russian Messengers" in Moscow and pupils in Moscow and New York. The film is about destiny and jazz.
The documentary "Trumpeter from Russia,"
filmed by Edward Topol, received the Golden Rami Award at
The 44th Annual WorldFest, Houston International Film Festival 2011.
Directed by : Eduard TOPOL
Writing credits : Eduard TOPOL
Cinematography : Gennadi Kariuk, Aleksandr Kariuk, Yevgeni SMIRNOV
Music : Valery PONOMAREV
Produced by : Eduard TOPOL
Companies : "Etofilm. Production centre of Eduard Topol"
The movie will be followed by Valery Ponomarev Big Band performance.
"Our Father Who Art Blakey," aka VPJBB, is the "best kept secret" on the modern jazz horizon today. The music of the band projects into the future the spirit set forth by the best Blue Note Artists of the 50s and 60s, covering the transformation of acoustic jazz music from those times until today.
VPJBB commands an enormous repertoire. The portion most loved by the audience and musicians alike is dedicated to the memory of Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers. This music of the Messengers, loved all over the world, is now heard in the Big-Band format, incorporating not only the original small group arrangements, but solos, backgrounds, accompaniments, harmonies, etc., as they were performed by Art Blakey, Clifford Brown, Lee Morgan, Freddie Hubbard, Wayne Shorter, Curtis Fuller, etc. "After all," says Mr. Ponomarev, "Art Blakey, as a young man, developed his incredible musical concept in big-band of Billy Eckstein, Duke Ellington, Earl 'Fatha' Hines, etc. and applied it to his own small groups. All I did was to take music of the Messengers and bring it back to where it sprung from - Big-Bands."
Comments from the Press
The Boston Phoenix
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