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At Igor Butman’s early set Wednesday at Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola, the great St. Petersburg-born tenor saxophonist played only one brief lick that seemed, at least to Western ears, remotely Russian: This was the main phrase from “Peter and the Wolf” (and, to be fair, the Prokofiev melody has also been recorded by American jazzmen such as Benny Goodman and Jimmy Smith). Otherwise, Comrade Butman’s playing only sounded Russian in the sense of his virtuosity: He plays the tenor like one of those Borodin bassos who displays an entire range beyond most opera singers. Mr. Butman plays so much tenor that, at times, you’re almost afraid he’s going to run out of horn.
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|At Igor Butman’s early set Wednesday at Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola, the great St. Petersburg-born tenor saxophonist played only one brief lick that seemed, at least to Western ears, remotely Russian: This was the main phrase from “Peter and the Wolf” (and, to be fair, the Prokofiev melody has also been recorded by American jazzmen such as Benny Goodman and Jimmy Smith). Otherwise, Comrade Butman’s playing only sounded Russian in the sense of his virtuosity: He plays the tenor like one of those Borodin bassos who displays an entire range beyond most opera singers. Mr. Butman plays so much tenor that, at times, you’re almost afraid he’s going to run out of horn.
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