J seven saxophonist reviews. Israeli saxophonist J.Seven: there are kind people and a lot of Japanese cars in Vladivostok

Kaliningrad Regional Philharmonic. E.F. Svetlanova / st.B. Khmelnitsky, 61a

Tickets: 500-1000 - r

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A popular Israeli saxophonist, performing under the pseudonym J.Seven (Jay Seven), a professional with two musical educations, has rightfully won wide recognition in many countries with his talent and fantastic manner of performance.

This musician is a multi-instrumentalist, in addition to owning the saxophone, which is his "priority" instrument, he also plays the Spanish guitar, recorder and drums.

Plus, J.Seven is incredibly artistic, he has an active, dynamic demeanor on stage. Despite the fact that he has one of the most complex instruments in his hands, he moves easily, goes out into the hall, interactively “communicates” with the audience and even dances while playing! So from each of his concerts he also makes a bright beautiful show. And most importantly, it can create a real atmosphere of romance, because this brilliant saxophonist plays Music of Love - a golden collection of world masterpieces: Stevie Wonder, Joe Dassin, Enio Morricone and many other equally beautiful ones.

Jay Seven will perform all this as a soloist in our Philharmonic Hall with Kaliningrad creative teams: the Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra and the Baltic Band jazz ensemble conducted by M. Sirkachik. The concert program "From Israel with Love" will be held as part of the International Arts Festival "Amber Necklace".

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Description

J. Seven is an extraordinary performer who can create a real atmosphere of romance during the show - the saxophonist plays the music of love. The uniqueness of his talent is that the artist, in addition to the saxophone, wonderfully owns the Spanish guitar, drums and recorder. The concert will feature a golden collection of world masterpieces: Stevie Wonder, Joe Dassin, Fausto Papetti and much more. You can enjoy the hoarse voice of the saxophone and return to your youth for two hours, remember your first love.

Repertoire

Golden collection of world masterpieces
- Concerts of romantic saxophone music

Program duration

from 1 hour 45 minutes before 2 hours

Compound

solo artist
(Performance as part of a team is possible:
Ronald Lis - keyboards
Saar Anak - bass guitar
Evgeniy Ninburg - rhythm solo guitar
Stas Zilberman - drums
Mikhail Ostrover - violin
Anastasia Kazakova - vocals

A concert of saxophonist J. Seven (Israel) took place in Krasnoyarsk. Probably, he should be considered first of all as a popularizer of many melodies from the “golden” world fund, although the musician has already been elevated to the rank of a multi-instrumentalist…

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From saxophone to knife

J. Seven performed (I immediately remember the famous brand of juice!) on the stage of the Opera and Ballet Theater on a weekday, but managed to gather a full house. By the way, just a few minutes before I went to the concert, I read in the book of one historiographer of Russian rock music that in the 1960s and 1970s, when Western music was ironed by a heavy tank by the official press (however, the other then was not), firstly, the saxophone was considered a symbol of the decaying and decaying west. Secondly, a strange idea was stubbornly carried out, they say, from this musical instrument to a knife is not far away. Of course, there is no more logic in this than in the well-known formula: “Today he plays jazz, and tomorrow he will sell his homeland” ...

The saxophonist went on stage dressed quite modestly: a jacket, jeans, a baseball cap hiding his eyes. He greeted the audience in several languages ​​and, promising to reveal the secret of his pseudonym in the second part of the concert, set to work. He was alone on the stage, blowing sounds from the saxophone over the "backing track", and behind him flashed the "animation" - frames of the video installation. At the same time, on one of the Internet sites it appears that the musician can perform with an ensemble of six people, among which there is a vocalist. And this is right, because people are not yet very accustomed to the “naked” instrumental…

Hit conveyor

Almost the entire program consisted of romantic melodies, heartfelt love songs… “The music of love returns a person, in my opinion, to his youthful years, when such masterpieces as the melody of Fausto Papetti from the film “Emmanuelle”, the song of Joe Dassin “If it were not for you” sounded. This is music that really literally speaks of love. That's why I called my concerts "Music of Love". Basically, I play exactly the kind of music that touches a person’s soul, listening to which a person remembers his youth, his first love, a kiss near the entrance under the lamp, ”I once explained J. Seven in one of his rather rare interviews.

What melodies sounded at the concert in Krasnoyarsk do you remember more than others?

I think that during the performance of the world hit from "Titanic" My Heart Will Go On, the musician's saxophone melted the remnants of ice in the hearts of the representatives of the beautiful half of humanity. Moreover, a clip of Canadian singer Celine Dion (the first performer of this masterpiece) played in the background on the video installation - with frames from James Cameron's film.

It is worth noting that J. Seven, who immediately warned that almost everything is allowed at his concerts (and he himself can, despite the saxophone, come into fairly close contact with the audience), almost immediately went to get acquainted with the audience. To begin with, I “mastered” the first row, and then went deeper and deeper over and over again, so even in the gallery they could clearly see the musician who was truly a virtuoso at the instrument - probably could have blown the necessary notes out of him, even standing on his head.

And he very organically “driven” with his saxophone into several imperishable melodies from the repertoire of Joe Dassin. One of the saddest and probably the most famousEt si tu n'existais pas, was a resounding success 40 years ago, in March 1976, whenfirst released as a single. The composition, written by Toto Cutugno, has been known since Soviet times and in the Russian version - under the name"If I did not have you".

But in the "saxophone" part of the concert, the main thing was the hit of Steve WonderI Just Called to Say I Love You . Here the artist could not resist and, after another run around the hall, he began to sing into the microphone. Also, twice he invited Krasnoyarsk residents (and, mostly, Krasnoyarsk women) to the stage. The girls came out first, who then danced on both sides of the musician while he performed the next number of his program. But at the same time, J. Seven managed to pay attention not only to the saxophone, but also to the spontaneously formed “corps de ballet”.

The next time the musician began to call out the pairs - although not immediately, but there were a sufficient number of them. And here it was not without dancing (this time slow) ...

Later J.Seven revealed the secret of his stage name. It turned out that the musician, who was born and raised in Russia, is called Evgeny or Zhenya (although he tries not to show his last name anywhere) - hence J., but Seven, as you know, is seven in English. It is with this lucky figure that the musician has a lot to do. As he explains himself, he was born in July - that is, in the 7th month, it happened in the 7th maternity hospital, then he went to the 177th kindergarten, in 1987 he began to study music, etc.

Guitar and flute

Soon the artist put down the saxophone and picked up the Spanish guitar, performing a few more heartfelt melodies. True, the new instrument "tied" him to the stage, making it impossible to move freely around the hall.

Well, it all ended with the soloist of the musician on the block flute - however, it was noticeable that he knew it still worse than the saxophone. The main hit of this part of the concert was the famous composition "A lonely shepherd". It became very popular all over the world after it was performed by the James Last Orchestra in the late 1970s - it is known that the composer originally wrote it for his unreleased album "Music for films without films", but the solo part was given specially invited Romanian pan flutist Gheorghe Zamfiru. It turned out to be a world hit, which was later not used as soon as it was used. The same Zamfir included "Shepherd" in all his concerts ... "The music that I play today is generally the music of the past. But in the end it turned out that people know her, remember her, love her and get great pleasure from her, ”J.Seven once admitted.

Toward the end of the concert, the people in the hall got a little excited. I remember, for example, one lady who danced solo for a long time in the aisle - to the left of the stage. The musician immediately noticed this and kept her company, but, of course, not to the detriment of playing music ...

It is known that in Russia J.Seven has already performed in Chelyabinsk, Tver, Veliky Novgorod. And shortly before Krasnoyarsk, I looked into Yekaterinburg - a gala concert dedicated to International Women's Day was held in the House of Officers of the Central Military District, where various artists were listed, including Artyom Katorgin, a participant in the Voice show.

But, as for Siberia, as the musician himself admitted, he began its development from Krasnoyarsk.

And further. According to reports, a few days later the romantic saxophone was already being listened to in Belarusian Mogilev. In principle, J.Seven can today even go to the Papuans cut off from civilization: the language of music is universal and does not require translation, and all performed compositions have long passed the test of time…

Strokes for a portrait

He started playing music at the age of 12. At the age of 17 he entered the circus variety college, graduating as a drummer and saxophonist.

In Russia he worked as a drummer with various stars. In early 2000, he left for Israel, where he began to collaborate with local musicians not only as a drummer, but also as a percussionist.

Later he decided to pursue a solo career - as a saxophonist. “When I was going to enter the concert market, no one believed that this could be done. The musicians who work with me today on the same stage did not even want to hear about it, did not want to talk about this topic. And since at one time I learned to play the guitar from a teacher, also a private one, I use the saxophone, the guitar, and the recorder at concerts, ”J.Seven explained in an interview.

The musician told P24 about his fate, tours around the world and shared his impressions of Vladivostok

Primorye24. Solo concert of a foreign saxophonist last Saturday. The multi-instrumentalist demonstrated to the audience his virtuoso playing of the saxophone, Spanish guitar and recorder. Jay, in Russian Zhenya, performs in Vladivostok for the first time. The musician told the correspondent of "Primorye24" about his fate, musical landmarks, tours around the world and shared his impressions of the capital of Primorye.

I was born and raised in the country of the former Soviet Union - I don’t want to say in which one, let there be a little intrigue! He graduated from the Variety and Circus College in two specialties.

- Straightaway?

In college, the system was like this: along with the main instrument, I had to master an additional one. Initially, he learned to play the drums, then picked up the saxophone. Everyone laughed at me - not very related instruments, of course ... Yes, and where I lived - the saxophone was not very in demand, did not meet the interests of the people of that culture.

- How did your career develop?

I came to music as a drummer: I worked with local eminent musicians, played for a long time in the State Television and Radio Orchestra, and drummed in the circus. In 2000 he moved to Israel. There he also got a job as a percussionist (Editor's note: drummer musician). He has already performed with Israeli and Greek "stars". Then he decided to build a solo career and remembered his second instrument.

Is it impossible to solo while playing drums?

Perhaps, of course: in the jazz world or playing in funk, fusion styles, but it would most likely be music for musicians. And ordinary people come to my concerts, who love beautiful, good, well-known melodies. The drum show is, after all, an amateur!

- You emphasize that you don't play jazz, but the music of love. Are these mutually exclusive concepts for you?

Jazz can also be the music of love if presented in this format. But there is logic in my statement on the poster! When you say "saxophone" - for some reason everyone imagines "bebop" music with vocal improvisations, which I myself cannot listen to for more than twenty minutes. There is no such thing in my concert - only romantic works, which the Russian audience, for the most part, appreciate. Not all of my audience loves and understands jazz, and reading just "saxophone" - some will pass by the poster. Therefore, I put such an emphasis: not jazz!

- Where are you touring?

I stay at home for two, three months at the most a year. The rest of the time I tour in Russia, Ukraine. Was in China, South Korea, in the Czech Republic. Now in plans - Germany. I hope that in October I will be able to perform there.

- What is the difference in the reaction of spectators of different nationalities at your concerts?

Residents of the countries of the former Soviet Union, in my opinion, were brought up in classical culture, and they can appreciate the works that I play. In addition, they enjoy these melodies. Unlike, for example, viewers and listeners in China, who react rather coldly. There is a different mentality, respectively, different tastes - people are used to going to operas, operettas, ballets. Some Chinese don't even know what a saxophone is. In general, China is a different story.

In general, when the audience comes to the concert, you can read in their views: “What is this? And who are you? What will you do now? Come on, surprise me!” Two hours later, they are already smiling, leaving the hall satisfied, thanking, writing positive reviews in social networks.

I liked the city, of course. Amur Bay, they are catching fish… I was especially surprised by the huge number of Japanese cars. I tried to find Mercedes, Audi, BMW, Porsche in the car stream - I saw one of each brand, and the rest were Japanese.

People are very friendly and kind in Vladivostok. In Moscow, it will be somehow tougher.

Source - Daria Ushakova, Primorye24