A jazz musician from any part of the world is to be admired for keeping the art form alive. And 22-year-old Anastasia Ivanova is always finding new ways of expressing her devotion to jazz, via her extraordinary musical talents as a trombonist, singer, and dancer. She also has an infectious joie de vivre, and undeniable charm and energy, and a playful sense of humor, making her someone well worth getting to know.
She hails from the town of Snezhinsk, located nearly a thousand miles east of Moscow. “Music has always been an important part of my life,” she says. Her mother, Natalia Ivanova-Kaluzhnaya, is a classical pianist, so music has long been in the family. “She was my first musical teacher. I came to the music school when I was four, and little by little started to learn piano.” But then she discovered the joys of singing, and, a bit later, the world of jazz. She credits that discovery to her friends, pianists Gennady Pystin and Dmitry Karpov. “That’s when I really got a ‘jazz vaccine‘ and fell in love with improvisation!” as she emulated the likes of Ella Fitzgerald and contemporary Canadian singer Nikki Yanofsky.
She took some singing classes at a young age, with her talent and potential already obvious. So, while her classmates were given songs easy for kids to learn, Anastasia was given more sophisticated jazz standards to tackle. Aside from attending a few
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