{"id":7138,"date":"2015-12-06T23:54:50","date_gmt":"2015-12-07T07:54:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=7138"},"modified":"2015-12-07T16:42:31","modified_gmt":"2015-12-08T00:42:31","slug":"weekend-extra-meet-victoria-tchekovaya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2015\/12\/weekend-extra-meet-victoria-tchekovaya\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Extra: Meet Victoria Tchekovaya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Russian-Flag-Map.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Russian-Flag-Map.jpg\" alt=\"Russian Flag Map\" width=\"200\" height=\"116\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7139\" \/><\/a>Svetlana Ilyicheva, our occasional <em>Rifftides<\/em> Moscow correspondent, reports that she returned from a weekend vocal festival at the Moscow Jazz Art Club greatly impressed by Victoria Tchekovaya, a young singer from the city of Novosibirsk. Svetlana writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Ms. Tchekovaya performed several songs from the repertoire of Dave Brubeck&#8217;s music with his wife Iola&#8217;s lyrics. The whole of her performance was dedicated to the 95th birthdays of Dave Brubeck and Carmen McRae. She started with &#8220;When I Was Young,&#8221; and included &#8220;In your Own Sweet Way&#8221; and other songs. Introducing \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Blue &#8220;Rondo a la Turk,&#8221; she called it a \u00e2\u20ac\u02dckiller\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 number. The tempo, expressiveness and drive were unprecedented. The audience was in rapture. Especially profoundly she performed the song &#8220;There Will Be No Tomorrow.&#8221; It was full of  feeling and understanding. The musicians\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 performance matched the passion of her singing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We found no video of Ms. Tchekovaya performing \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Blue Rondo,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d but Svetlana provided a link to an earlier version of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153In Your Own Sweet Way.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d The rhythm section is Victor Friedman, piano: Eugene Onishchenko, bass, Valery Dedov, drums. The alto saxophonist is Pavel Kutz. <\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"540\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eRt1FZ2Vku4?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><p>If that &#8220;killer&#8221; version of &#8220;Blue Rondo&#8221; materializes in video form, we will let you know. <\/p>\n<p>Addenum: Ms. Ilyicheva sent a photograph taken during Dave Brubeck&#8217;s 1988 Russian tour. It shows pianist Victor Friedman (right) with Chris Brubeck (center) and clarinetist Bill Smith. Friedman, who accompanied Victoria Tchekovaya in the video above, played for a couple of hours with Brubeck&#8217;s sidemen while Brubeck and President Ronald Reagan were received at the Kremlin.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Smith-C-Brubeck-V.-Friedman.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Smith-C-Brubeck-V.-Friedman.jpg\" alt=\"Smith, C Brubeck, V. Friedman\" width=\"300\" height=\"236\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7142\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For a recent review of drummer Dan Brubeck&#8217;s performance of some of his parents&#8217; repertoire, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2015\/11\/dan-brubeck-quartet-at-the-seasons.html\"target=\"_blank\">go here<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Svetlana Ilyicheva, our occasional Rifftides Moscow correspondent, reports that she returned from a weekend vocal festival at the Moscow Jazz Art Club greatly impressed by Victoria Tchekovaya, a young singer from the city of Novosibirsk. Svetlana writes: Ms. Tchekovaya performed several songs from the repertoire of Dave Brubeck&#8217;s music with his wife Iola&#8217;s lyrics. 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