Sasha Mashin

Sasha Mashin was born in 1976 in St Petersburg, Russia. In 1991 she joined the jazz-club Kvadrat where she met many jazz musicians from St. Petersburg.

After studying for two months at the Musorgsky University of Music, she decided to start her professional career as an artist and leave the university.

In 1998, he moved to Moscow where he continued to collaborate with some of the best Russian jazz musicians.

In 2005 Sasha Mashin participated in the Open World Program USA educational programme in New York and played with legends such as Clark Terry, Kenny Barron and Jimmy Heath
at the Blue Note Jazz Club.

Since 2008 he has been travelling the world with the band Isfar Sarabski.
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Sasha Mashin has performed with a long list of musicians such as
Benny Golson, Clark Terry
Jimmy Heath, Kenny Barron,
Johnny Griffin, Lew Tabackin,
James Spaulding, Eddy Henderson, Steve Slagle, Gary Smulyan, Larry Schneider, Mark Turner, Donny McCaslin, Rosario Giuliani, Alex Sipiagin, Isfar Sarabski, Dhafer Youssef
and many others.

Since February 2022 he lives in Italy and collaborates with Alex Sipiagin, Isfar Sarabski, Rosario Giuliani, Luca Mannutza, Antonio Farao', Dado Moroni, Rocco Zifarelli.

In 2023, he released the album Happy Run for BirdBox Records featuring two extraordinary artists, saxophonist Rosario Giuliani and double bassist Makar Novikov.
The album is available on CD and in the prestigious Reference Master Tape Copy format.

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