CONCERT OF ARMENIAN ETHNO-JAZZ-ROCK TO BE HELD IN MOSCOW

Noyan Tapan
Armenians Today
Sept 07 2006

MOSCOW, SEPTEMBER 7, NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAY. The concert of
the Armenian ethno-jazz-rock group Vahagn Hayrapetian and Katuner
(Vahagn Hayrapetian and Cats) will be held on September 9 in
Moscow. This was reported by the Yerkramas (Krai) newspaper of
Armenians of Russia. Vahagn Hayrapetian is one of the most famous
and popular jazz musicians of modern Armenian stage. For many years
he was known as follower of the style of swing and bop and performed
with his trio for many years, but in 2005, changing his musical image
Hayrapetian engaged a new collective from seven musicians under the
name Vahagn Hayrapetian and Katuner. The septet has already started
to successfully perform at at the annual Jazz Appreciation Month
organized for the 5th year by the U.S. State Department, as well as
to present its art at the First and Second International Festival
of Vanguard Folk Music in Yerevan, at the Third International Jazz
Festival Yerevan-2006. The collective has had many solo concerts at
concert grounds and clubs of Yerevan. In early summer of 2005 the
collective took part in the South Caucasus Music Conference (Tbilisi,
Georgia) and successfully performed at the Noa-Noa club there. The
ensemble has lately recorded its debute album with 7 compositions
composed by it.