Through tenacity and talent, tenor saxophonist Igor Butman worked his way through the nascent jazz scene of the Soviet Union in the late-1970s and the 1980s, attracting the attention of leading ...

World famous saxophone player and producer Igor Butman enjoys one of the most successful and flamboyant careers in the history of modern jazz. Berklee alumnus runs Moscow Jazz Orchestra aka Igor ...

He was the public face of the Chabad-Lubavitch sect during the Crown Heights riots in 1991 and for decades lit its giant menorah in Manhattan every Hanukkah. By Sam Roberts Rabbi Shmuel Butman, who ...

If Hillary Rodham Clinton is ever elected president of the United States, there is a chance she'll invite Russian jazz legend Igor Butman to play at her inauguration party. Bill Clinton, who is ...

Russian music has a mile-wide streak of tragedy and sorrow running through it. If Americans hadn't invented it first, the blues could have been born on the banks of the Volga River, instead of the ...

Fostering cross-cultural communication between the United States and Russia through the language of music and the deeply democratic art-form of jazz, the bandleader showcases two distinct ensembles of ...

It was at a league ice-hockey game on Nov. 11, 1994, that Igor Butman added another exciting chapter to his life story. The other team, frustrated by Butman’s skill and speed, tried to slow him down ...