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Los Angeles, California - III Records proudly announces the release of Ira & Igor. This 52-minute CD features Ira Schulman on flutes, tenor saxophone, clarinet, and Igor on Guitar, collectively known as new reincarnation of OGOGO. Recorded in the Peacock Studio, Ira & Igor documents the True American sound ; rooted in the classical and jazz tradition, vibrant, free and continually moving forward. Igor has been performing since his teen years with various groups, both as leader and as a sideman. His ensemble, "Roof", founded in Europe, was a tour de force of avant-garde music that drew critical acclaim, and helped establish Moscow, an eastern European city, as an important place of highly creative improvisational music. Igor's tone is reminiscent of that big late 50s guitar sound, fused with an edge that comes from surviving the assault of the 60s. However, Igor's tone is only the background for writing style that forces the listener's spirit to fly beyond the restrains of our daily limitations and boundaries. On the sheer power of his own strength, Igor has survived against great odds to keep an artistic vision filled with sense of purpose, heart, and imagination. Ira Schulman has been a powerful force for few decades in keeping jazz idiom alive and in the front of many listeners' consciousness. A veteran of number of recording projects, Ira strikes to continually develop an art from and refuses to repeat himself. Ira and Igor have performed together in may concert and club situations, but OGOGO Ira & Igor represents the first time these two Los Angeles musicians have documented their art in the studio. All compositions written by Igor OGOGO Grigoriev (ASCAP)