Igor Butman - SHEHERAZADE'S TALES

Recorded live in 2010 at the Cherry Wood Art Festival in Moscow, Sheherazade's Tales found world-renowned Russian saxophone player Igor Butman-along with prominent NY jazz artists Sean Jones, Kathy Jenkins, Peter Bernstein and James Burton-presenting a crossover program featuring Nick Levinovsky's jazz arrangements of the symphonic suite "Sheherazade" by the celebrated Russian composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, along with two songs from the Russian Gypsy tradition, "Dark Eyes" and "Coachman, Don't Rush The Horses", as well as the American jazz standard, "Caravan". Executed with impeccable style and ingenuity, this original fusion of classical music and jazz was enthusiastically received by audience and critics.