on channel one podcast melodies of my life, today our guest is the people's artist of russia, a magnificent musician and my great friend and storyteller, igor butman. igor, well, strictly speaking, melodies are what makes our life magical, and through them, when we need to remember something, we remember everything down to the smallest detail. therefore , i will only give modest leading questions, because of course i know that the beauty of a conversation with a friend is to talk about yourself, today only about you, my dear, so, the melody of childhood, well, that’s all that connected, it’s clear that she’s not alone, but just to rely on this melody to remember in general how from the moment you remember yourself, roughly speaking, you know, i was probably only, well, a year old...

i recently took this record to listen to once again, but it seemed to me that women’s voices were singing, but everything, everything that is on the internet, everything is sung by rock grenade and others sang, and in my opinion almost luyu prima sang, louis prima is my favorite, you see, that is, this song is quite old, well, but it was on our record from this, remember the type.

he had these angelina and bonoseira si, well, this one , by the way, was also this could have been, yes, in this plastic one, in my opinion, there was a plastic record or a very small minion like this, i heard this song on it and me from me they tore the melody away from this and tore it away from the chorus itself. that is, this is long before even when philip kirkorov performs this song with pleasure long before them. korva, i remembered her, no,

no, of course, yes, no, well, first of all, your mother is mariula, yes, that is, in fact, the root words, grandmother, beloved grandmother marina borisovna, with whom we lived for a long time, she is wonderful, in general, she is the most important thing in our family in terms of pedigree, so of course marina, marina, i called her marina, and grandmother, no, i had another song that my dad, our neighbor, sang, it was also a song of youth, because boris potenkin wrote: well, how can i not have fun despite this sad note because your dad and i even played together uh at your place at the butman club in jazz dad is a brilliant drummer here uh mikhail solomonovich is great, so there you go.

it’s nice that he played excellently and it’s nice that we can remember, while our parents are alive, someone stands between us and eternity, this is of course grandiose, tell me, but from childhood nothing foreshadowed the jazz spark then, yes, that is, ordinary melodies wide, absolutely , i liked everything, i liked music, but especially pop music, what was popular then, in general, i grew up, and since my dad was a drummer, i also took sticks and occupied them at home. deuces there parodidlo played uh we had a piano, but there wasn’t one, i didn’t go to music school, but a girl came to give me such private lessons to prepare for maybe music school, for some reason she studied for 3 months or maybe six months, and then we left from from the city center from the fontanka, we moved to a wonderful area, which was called a cheerful village, so about 3 years were spent just on... sports, hockey, i don’t know, on

everything, whatever, then hockey was primary, after all, yes, yes, so, well, in general, yes, at the same time, yes, a little later, even on the music school arrived a little later, that is , what serious ones were captured at first, you actually, uh. a titled hockey player, not even by your current exploits in the night hockey league and not only, but by friendship with all the main hockey players of our time, but because you are at a professional level, this is skaleningrad, then i went to the clarinet, music school, when i already took the clarinet, began to play some works of academic music, and mozart and chose rimsky korsykov, flight of the bumblebee, eh?

at first there was a repertoire of vocal instrumental ensembles , songs, they showed me the chords there, i began to study there, and you can play chords on the guitar, but i know for sure yes, with this ian we we, he brought me to his home, played rock records and i i was stunned, who was it? it was depo, and the album was made in japan, so this is a live album, i was amazed, but the thing is that i think it was not only the music itself that captivated me. how they performed, but the fact that notes of jazz were already there, that is, with a huge, so to speak, pressure, huge drive, volume in general, not intricate melodies, but played with such, with such dedication, were heard by jon lord, rich blackmore, ian

pace, drummer pace just struck me as a young drummer, stunning i was impressed that he talks so high-hat, yes, yes, and this...

here it is, yes, yes, well, sometimes we sometimes even insert oleg nashuratov, and you know , i really liked it, -i think it’s mr. kokanat, it was called something, when now it’s already a familiar genre in the lounge style there in such a salon way, take some rock hit and

make it beyond recognition, it was done with this introduction in bossa nova, that is, there’s just a tap-pap, the orchestra plays it all. but we are just different, when we play a dedication to benny goodman, then i’m left alone, and i put in some melodies that come to mind, and one day the melody “smoke on the water” came, and then we switched to rock , our evgeniy pobozhi played rock, eduard our zizak played , so to speak, to ian pace, and oleg akuratov sang, smogon zavod and we are just from jazz from benny goodman, so to speak, they went to the smunka factory, then returned back, because the concert had to end. igor butman and edik zizak, edik, hello to you and zhenya pobozhy, and i am very pleased that oleg akuratov, your student, was my hero

in one of the seasons of the voice program, where oleg , of course, simply revealed himself as brilliant, he is a jazz musician was well known in circles even before participation. in his voice, but now virtually the whole country knows him as a brilliant guy, i want to say that oleg, that’s unique, he’s in any language of the world, in any language, he sings absolutely without any accent, which is absolutely. well, it’s surprising and he’s able to remember a blind reflection , a person has developed his memory skills so much that he actually uh you tell him a song, let’s say, i told him flime to the moon in russian, he told me, valery milavich, just say it, i said it, he reproduced, he shines now in igor’s orchestra, just in full growth, it’s nice to remember the brilliant musicians thanks to. visit with a friend, today we'