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George Grydkovets

George Grydkovets is a relatively young guitarist, bandleader, and composer from Kyiv, Ukraine, currently residing in New York. The main focus of his artwork is on composing new original music and bringing it to the world. From an early age, George was playing all over Kyiv’s clubs with his band but eventually began playing music with some of the best Ukrainian jazzmen, such as Dennis Adu, Aleksandr Pavlov, Pavel Galitsky, and others. His original music is very ethereal and atmospheric, yet adventurous and bluesy, reminiscent of such guitar players as Pat Metheny, Bill Frisell, Gilad Hekselman. With his "Kyiv Trio", George has recorded a debut record - “Rise”, in August 2021, which came out March 25th, 2022 on the “Shifting Paradigm Records”.

George Grydkovets: Rise

by Mark Sullivan
September 8, 2022

Ukrainian guitarist & composer George Grydkovets makes his debut here, in a trio accompanied by upright bassist Valentin Kornivenko and drummer Pavel Galitsky (trumpeter Dennis Adu plays on three tracks). Grydkovets currently resides in New York, where he studies at the New School's School of Jazz and Contemporary Music. He recorded this album near his hometown of Kyiv, Ukraine, with some of the leading Ukrainian jazz musicians he had been working with. Opening the album with the ballad “First Rays ...