Alex Sipiagin
Encyclopedia
Alex "Sasha" Sipiagin is a jazz
trumpet
and flugelhorn
player.
to the U.S. in 1991 and began his career shortly thereafter. His first gigs in the U.S. were with the Gil Evans Band
and George Gruntz Concert Jazz Band
. He has played with Dave Holland
, Mingus Big Band
, Michael Brecker
, Mulgrew Miller
and many others. Alex has recorded twelve albums as a leader, mainly for the Criss Cross Jazz
label. He is married to singer Monday Michiru
and frequently plays with her band.
With Barbara Dennerlein
With Conrad Herwig
With Dave Holland
With Regina Litvinova Extreme Trio
With Donny McCaslin
With Mingus Big Band
With Kengo Nakamura
With Paolo Recchio
Jazz
Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...
trumpet
Trumpet
The trumpet is the musical instrument with the highest register in the brass family. Trumpets are among the oldest musical instruments, dating back to at least 1500 BCE. They are played by blowing air through closed lips, producing a "buzzing" sound which starts a standing wave vibration in the air...
and flugelhorn
Flugelhorn
The flugelhorn is a brass instrument resembling a trumpet but with a wider, conical bore. Some consider it to be a member of the saxhorn family developed by Adolphe Sax ; however, other historians assert that it derives from the valve bugle designed by Michael Saurle , Munich 1832 , thus...
player.
Biography
Alex moved from RussiaRussia
Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
to the U.S. in 1991 and began his career shortly thereafter. His first gigs in the U.S. were with the Gil Evans Band
Gil Evans
Gil Evans was a jazz pianist, arranger, composer and bandleader, active in the United States...
and George Gruntz Concert Jazz Band
George Gruntz
George Gruntz is a Swiss jazz pianist, organist, harpsichordist, keyboardist and composer most noteworthy for his work with artists such as Phil Woods, Roland Kirk, Don Cherry, Chet Baker, Art Farmer, Dexter Gordon, Johnny Griffin and Mel Lewis.From 1972 to 1994 he served as artistic director for...
. He has played with Dave Holland
Dave Holland
Dave Holland is an English jazz double bassist, composer and bandleader who has been performing and recording for five decades. He has lived in the United States for 40 years....
, Mingus Big Band
Mingus Big Band
The Mingus Big Band is an ensemble, based in New York City, that specializes in the compositions of the late Charles Mingus. It is managed by his widow, Sue Mingus and represented by Tree Lawn Artists, Inc.. In addition to its weekly Monday night appearance at the Jazz Standard in New York City,...
, Michael Brecker
Michael Brecker
Michael Leonard Brecker was an American jazz saxophonist and composer. Acknowledged as "a quiet, gentle musician widely regarded as the most influential tenor saxophonist since John Coltrane," he has been awarded 15 Grammy Awards as both performer and composer and was inducted into Down Beat Jazz...
, Mulgrew Miller
Mulgrew Miller
Mulgrew Miller is an American jazz pianist who performs in a number of jazz idioms. He began his career as member of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers.-Biography:...
and many others. Alex has recorded twelve albums as a leader, mainly for the Criss Cross Jazz
Criss Cross Jazz
Criss Cross Jazz is a Dutch jazz record label, specializing in American jazz.Criss Cross was founded in 1980 by Gerry Teekens, a drummer and German professor. The label, which releases about 20 albums per year, is noted for its simple, block-color cover art...
label. He is married to singer Monday Michiru
Monday Michiru
Monday Michiru Sipiagin is a Japanese American actress, singer, and songwriter whose music encompasses and fuses a wide variety of genres including jazz, dance, pop, and soul...
and frequently plays with her band.
As a leader
- Images (1998) TCB - The Montreux Jazz Label
- Hindsight (2001) Criss Cross Jazz
- Steppin' Zone (2001) Criss Cross Jazz
- Mirrors (2003) Criss Cross Jazz
- Equilibrium (2003) Criss Cross Jazz
- Live at Bird's Eye (2004) ArtistShareArtistShareArtistShare is a crowdfunding website and labelWharton Innovation and Entrepreneurship Consulted on 10/12/2011 for musicians and other creative artists which allows them to fund their projects utilizing a "fan-funding" model to allow the general public to directly finance, watch the creative...
- Returning (2005) Criss Cross Jazz
- Prints (2007) Criss Cross Jazz
- Out of the Circle (2008) Sunnyside RecordsSunnyside RecordsSunnyside Records is an American jazz record label.Sunnyside was founded in 1982 by Francois Zalacain and Christine Berthet. Its early releases consisted primarily of piano solo material and ensembles without drums, but in later years has broadened its selection of material.-Artists who have...
- Mirages (2009) Criss Cross Jazz
- Equilibrium (2009) Criss Cross Jazz
- Generations - Dedicated to Woody Shaw (2010) Criss Cross Jazz
- Destinations Unknown (2011) Criss Cross Jazz
As a sideman
With Michael BreckerMichael Brecker
Michael Leonard Brecker was an American jazz saxophonist and composer. Acknowledged as "a quiet, gentle musician widely regarded as the most influential tenor saxophonist since John Coltrane," he has been awarded 15 Grammy Awards as both performer and composer and was inducted into Down Beat Jazz...
- Wide AnglesWide Angles (album)-Track listing:#"Broadband" - 6:45#"Cool Day in Hell" - 7:51#"Angle of Repose" - 6:41#"Tumbuktu" - 7:51#"Night Jessamine" - 5:20#"Scylla" - 10:39#"Brexterity" - 6:39#"Evening Faces" - 7:13#"Modus Operandy" - 5:26#"Never Alone" - 5:39-Musicians:...
(2003) VerveVerve RecordsVerve Records is an American jazz record label now owned by Universal Music Group. It was founded by Norman Granz in 1956, absorbing the catalogues of his earlier labels, Clef Records and Norgran Records , and material which had been licensed to Mercury previously.-Jazz and folk origins:The Verve...
With Barbara Dennerlein
Barbara Dennerlein
Barbara Dennerlein , is a hard bop and post-bop Hammond B3 organist.-Early years:At age 11, Dennerlein began playing electronic organ. After starting organ lessons, she learned to play the two manual organ with a bass pedalboard. After one and a half years of lessons she continued to study without...
- Outhipped (1999) Verve
With Conrad Herwig
Conrad Herwig
Conrad Herwig is a jazz trombonist from New York City in the United States. He has recorded 20 albums as a leader.-Biography:He began his career in Clark Terry's band in the early 1980s and has been a featured member in the Joe Henderson Sextet, Tom Harrell’s Septet and Big Band, and the Joe...
- Unseen Universe (2000) Criss Cross Jazz
With Dave Holland
Dave Holland
Dave Holland is an English jazz double bassist, composer and bandleader who has been performing and recording for five decades. He has lived in the United States for 40 years....
- Overtime (2005) Dare2 Records
- Pass It On (2008) EmArcy
- Pathways (2010) Dare2 Records
With Regina Litvinova Extreme Trio
- Grizzlies (2005) JAZZ'n'ARTS
With Donny McCaslin
Donny McCaslin
Donny McCaslin is an American jazz saxophonist.McCaslin's father was a vibraphonist, and he played in his father's ensemble at the age of twelve. He had his own group in high school which played three years at the Monterey Jazz Festival. He studied under Paul Contos and Brad Hecht, both of whom...
- Declaration (2009) Sunnyside Records
With Mingus Big Band
Mingus Big Band
The Mingus Big Band is an ensemble, based in New York City, that specializes in the compositions of the late Charles Mingus. It is managed by his widow, Sue Mingus and represented by Tree Lawn Artists, Inc.. In addition to its weekly Monday night appearance at the Jazz Standard in New York City,...
- Live In Time (1996) Disques DreyfusDisques DreyfusDisques Dreyfus is a record label which is currently home to artists such as Klement Julienne. Jean Michel Jarre was part of the label for more than 20 years.Francis Dreyfus founded Disque Dreyfus in 1985...
- Que Viva Mingus! (1997) Disques Dreyfus
With Kengo Nakamura
- Say Hello To Say Goodbye (2002) Verve
With Paolo Recchio
- Ari's Desire (2011) Vio Veneto Jazz
As a Co-leader
With Opus 5- Introducing Opus 5 (2011) Criss Cross Jazz (Alex Sipiagin, Seamus BlakeSeamus Blake-Life and career:Born in London, England, Blake was brought up in Vancouver, Canada. His mother introduced him to jazz when he was a child and he later attended Berklee School of Music in Boston. Upon graduation moved to New York. In February 2002 he won the Thelonious Monk International Saxophone...
, David KikoskiDavid KikoskiDave Kikoski is an exceptional American jazz pianist and keyboardist.Kikoski learned piano from his father and played with him in bars as a teenager...
, Boris Kozlov, Donald Edwards)