BORISLAV STRULEV - OSCAR PETERSON GALA CONCERT at CARNEGIE HALL

Tribute to Oscar Peterson — Master of Swing Carnegie Hall Gets All Jazzed Up For Famed Pianist Oscar Peterson “Sweet Lorraine” Borislav Strulev - cello Roger Kellaway - piano Christian McBride - Bass Lewis Nash - Drums Russell Malone - Guitar Review by Jeremy Gerard - (Bloomberg) Produced by Ettore Stratta and Pat Philips Isaac Stern Auditorium/Ronald O. Perelman Stage, Carnegie Hall, New York; 2,804 seats; A Fujitsu Jazz Festival presentation. Produced and directed by Pat Philips and Ettore Stratta. Musical director, Roger Kellaway. Reviewed June 8 - 9, 2007. Musicians: Hank Jones, Billy Taylor, Mulgrew Miller, Marian McPartland , Christian McBride , Lewis Nash , Russell Malone , Wynton Marsalis , Paquito D’Rivera, Clark Terry , Houston Person , Jimmy Heath , Renee Rosnes , David Finck, Eldar, Borislav Strulev, Florin Niculescu. Vocalists: Dee Dee Bridgewater , Hilary Kole, Freddie Cole, Roberta Gambarini . Cellist Borislav Strulev, channeling no one, or perhaps God. He only added to the felt presence of Oscar Peterson , not only in his dazzling expertise, but nearly as important, in the impeccable taste that marked this concert from beginning to end.