Alex Sipiagin

About

Jazz Festivals worldwide has seen Alex Sipiagin performing with the likes of Dave Holland, Michael Brecker, the Mingus groups, and more. Sipiagin became a favored player for various bands including the Gil Evans Orchestra, Gil Goldstein’s Zebra Coast Orchestra, and more. He has also worked with Eric Clapton, Dr. John, Aaron Neville, Elvis Costello, Michael Franks, and more. As a soloist, Sipiagin has eleven recordings out to his credit and has toured extensively throughout Europe, U.S., Japan and Russia with his own group. He also teaches at the Groningen Prince Claus Conservatory, Academy of Music, Basel, Switzerland as well steady professorship at NYU. Recorded 15 solo albums for jazz label CrissCrossJazz. For this performance, he will be joined by John Escreet (piano), Ricky Rodriguez (Bass), David Gilmore (guitar), and Donald Edwards (drums).