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Alexander Vinitsky the good known Russian guitarist, composer and arranger, musician with original, extensive, repertoire, refined taste and individual style. He plays an electro-acoustic guitar with nylon strings firm of La Patrie (Canada). La Patrie presented to Alexander Vinitsky one guitar. Concert repertory of Alexander Vinitsky is comprises his own compositions in differend jazz styles-swing, stride, bossa nova, jazz-samba, blues, jazz – rock, new age. Also in concert program includes arrangements of jazz standards of G. Gershwin, C. Porter, R. Rodgers, D.Ellington, A.C.Jobim, J. Zavinul, G.Vood, V.Young, H.Carmichael and e.t.c.  

He writes the music combining different styles for a guitar solo, a guitar and a chamber orchestra, a guitar and a string quartet, a quartet of guitars. His works published Lemoine (France), Mel Bay (USA), ABSONIC (Poland), Imprimus (Belgium), Presto (Russia)     

He has written down 6 CD’s: 2 CD’s solo with own compositions and arrangements ” Travelling in Time” and Yellow Camel”), 4 CD’s are duets with a saxophone “Romantic of Jazz”(saxophone-Oleg Kireev, Russia), with percussion “ViP duo” (Percussion-Ilja Pokrovsky, Russia), a violin “Dialog”(jazz violin-Eddi Parenti, the USA), a duet with themselves – “Only Blues”.  

AUDIO

  YELLOW CAMEL

A.Vinitsky………………………. Blues in D       

 A.Vinitsky………………………. Jazz aria        

 J.Pass…………………………….. Blues in Bb    (arr. A.Vinitsky)    

A.C.Jobim………………………. Great love   ( arr.A.Vinitsky)      

A.Vinitsky……………………….  Something unusual has happened in magic wood  

A.Vinitsky………………………. Blues in Em 

 A.Vinitsky………………………. Samba ‘Yellow camel’ 

 A.Vinitsky………………………. Etude in a Blues Form 

G.Gershwin……………………… Lady be Good ( arr.A.Vinitsky)      

    TRAWELLING IN TIME

A.Vinitsky…………………………Waiting For The News

A.Vinitsky…………………………Evguenia

J.Zavinul……………………………Mercy! Mercy! Mercy(arr.A.Vinitsky)

A.Vinitsky………………………….Nostalgia (prelude)

A.Vinitsky………………………….Green Soft Light

A.C.Jobim………………………….Jazz-Samba(arr.A.Vinitsky)

A.Vinitsky…………………………Travelling In Time

A.C.Jobim………………………….One Note Samba

VIDEO 

Solo  

J.Zavinul….. Mercy! Mercy! Mercy!  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kd9Vu8-v1Jw&feature=player_embedded  

A.Viniysky…I waiting for you tonight in small cafe  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AdgDUNJTEQ&feature=related   

A.Vinitsky…………..Fantasy Jerusalem  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGnO5QcKZI4  

A.Vinitsky…………..Waiting for News  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGVBg5SqeZ4&feature=player_embedded  

A.Vinitsky…………..Jazz Aria http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42iaL-Dx-z0&feature=related 

Guitar and string quartet  

Alexander Viniysky……………..Walk in Blue Mood http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgWI15JamFM   

 
Alexander Vinitsky………………….Samba for Five http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWWXMeXpaV8   

Alexander Vinitsky……….Ragtime http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69um-6SzNIQ  

Reviews

Magazine  “Classical Guitar”. England. Kolin Cooper.  “Its compositions are always sustained in good taste and lungs as air. Its game quiet, constrained and nevertheless with self-respect, with good technics and with the big Russian charm… “  

Magazine “ Classicall Guitar”. England. Are Lansh  “Alexander Vinitsky performance which plays a jazz a classical guitar was an example intellectual a jazz and a poetic jazz, confirming that the tool possesses the richest expressive possibilities.”   

A musical observer of the newspaper “ Noviny”, Poland, Jatsek Ostrovsky  “Since the first instants of the concert Alexander Vinitsky has created heat and calmness atmosphere. Showing huge possibilities of the tool, changing on the mood is masterful, it transferred us from hot rhythms of the South America to a climate full of nostalgia, reflexions and meditation in its own compositions”   

The weekly newspaper “Seasons”, Russia, Andrey Tretjakov “It was music that simple, difficult, lyrical, sensual strict and academic it was mobile and unpredictable, as mercury, hot as a wind сирокко, filigranno-perfected as reliefs of Gothic cathedrals. It were cloths of a jazz within the limits of a classical guitar”