By Darya Bielecka
Photo: Vladimir Stepanov / For MT
In his early 50s, Russian jazz pianist and producer Daniel Kramer is still touring around Russia and abroad in what he describes as a nonstop regime.
In his last tour, which lasted 26 days and covered 20 cities, he traveled with young and ambitious jazz vocalist Polina Zizak, performing in small provincial towns like Snezhinsk and Alapayevsk, as well as larger cities like Yekaterinburg.
Kramer had to use all the connections that he has acquired over his long career as a jazz musician in order to organize such a difficult tour, as he confessed in a recent interview with The Moscow Times.
Kramer says that for him, it makes no difference whether he performs in front of a Parisian crowd or the provincial public. "People are people all around," Kramer says. "Besides music technique, an artist should be able to disclose his soul to himself and to people, he must touch himself and the audience really very deeply with the movement of soul."
Daniel Kramer is well-known for addressing young listeners, and for his extensive work with young and up-and-coming musicians. Kramer says that he looks back on his best teachers and, realizing how much help he received from them in his youth, feels that he must return the debts of expertise and experience to the next generations of jazz artists.
After all, having one's songs covered and reproduced by other artists is one of the strongest points of the jazz industry in Russia. Russian jazz musicians do care about those who come after them, and Kramer is honored to be copied.
Read more: http://www.themoscowtimes.com/arts_n_ideas/article/daniel-kramer-never-gets-tired/490289.html#ixzz2lxvyn6nR
The Moscow Times
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