Hopak - Ihor Zakus and Z-Band

[thexpraise]

that's what I was looking for. Ukrainian folk mixed with jazz. Real good!!!

[Nekraskin]

It's a great sound! That's true Ukrainian Jazz! Bravo!

[lowerb22]

It might be "Hopak" or not, but it grooves like hell. In the improvisation they just play the good old rhythm changes.

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[jazzrobot]

YEAH RODION !!!

HOPE TO SEE YOU SOON !

Robi

[aShot74]

Privet iz solnechnoy Canady!

[chengloki]

This sounds like it belongs on Johnny Carson. (He was Not Ukrainian). So I guess you know how I feel about this.Let me spell it out, it sucks. =Stefan=

[viachek]

well, you can take it as a joke. you are maybe not into a context of ukrainian stuff, and you don't have to be. the idea was - to take a silly folk song and play a good jazz on top of it. and you should admit that the guys play their asses off. and if i'd "cropped out" the impros from the melody, i bet you would say something different. but you haven't got the joke (though you don't have to). sorry, he-he)) look up the other jazz-kolo vids.

viachek

[will3power]

I doubt how much you are "into Ukrainian stuff" if you call Hopak a "silly folk song". First, it's a dance, not a song, and second - it's way far from silly. The Ukrainian Cossaks turned hopak into a martial art.

[viachek]

oh, trust me, i'm absolutely aware of what "hopak" is. and this version, which i enjoy so much, sounds quite funny though powerful also. and yes, this way it sounds as decent jazz ) (was it Don Byron who thought that "hopak" was a klezmer song, and even recorded it?:)))

[will3power]

You are wrong. It's rather decent jazz.