Владимир Волков

Vladimir Volkov began to play jazz in the late 1970s. For 15 years he played in the legendary duet with Russia's most interesting trumpet player Slava Guyvoronsky. Volkov can play any kind of music. He plays avant-garde with the Moscow Composers' Orchestra, world music with the Vershki-Da-Koreshki group, high-energy guitar "new jazz' with his own group VolkovTrio, modern and traditional jazz with Andrei Kondakov and Igor Butman etc. It is remarkable that he stays true to himself - energetic virtuoso - in all genres. It was not for nothing that in the early 1990s Russian critics named him the best double-bass player of the former USSR. Boheme Music catalogue contains his records as a member of Andrei Kondakov's group and of a ethnic jazz trio with Arkady Shilkloper and Sergei Starostin.