Zhenya Strigalev, Eric Harland, Liam Noble, Linley Marthe, Alex Sipiagin, Matt Penman

Possessing fire, grace and edgy attitude alto saxophonist Zhenya Strigalev is a young virtuoso forging an increasingly high profile international presence. In the short five years since graduating from the London’s prestigious Royal Academy of Music in 2007, Strigalev has cut a dynamic path between the London and New York jazz scenes. He’s worked with some of today’s most forward thinking musicians and appeared at many of the world’s leading jazz festivals, performing extensively in Russia, Finland, the Czech Republic, Austria, Poland, France and Britain. Now with four solo albums under his belt, Zhenya Strigalev is poised to reach a new level of artistic maturity on his superb new solo album ‘Smiling Organizm’