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Rain Sultanov was born in Baku, Azerbaijan in 1965. Influenced by his mother and two elder brothers, he became a musician although as a child he was more eager to draw and attended drawing classes. When he was 14, his elder brothers decided that he should enter music school, where one of his first teachers was Chingiz Babayev. He bought his first clarinet with his eldest brother’s help. After leaving school, Rain was a clarinettist in the military orchestra for almost four years during his army service. In 1985, when he was a student at the A. Zeynalli Music College, he won the Rain & Donny McCazlinAzerbaijan Music Contest. Invited by the famous Azerbaijani composer and singer Polad Bulbuloglu to join the Ashuglar group, he started to write improvisations for his songs, while continuing to play jazz with friends and family. In 1992 Rain was invited to work with the Azerbaijan Teleradio Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Faig Sujaddinov. This proved to be a critical time during which he prepared several solo jazz programmes for concerts. From 1992 to 1994 Rain performed solo jazz concerts at various jazz and concert halls in Turkey and Moscow. In 1995 Rain wrote his first compositions, Jokers’ Dance and Day Off . He Adam Rodgers & Raintook part to critical acclaim in jazz festivals in Germany in 1996 and 1997.1996 was a very successful year for Rain: in Germany he wrote several new compositions, including Last Moment, Crazy World and others.

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Tracklist:
1. City of Jazz 7.23 (R. Sultanov)

2. Baki khatireleri 6.54 (R. Sultanov)

3. Leyla 7.10 (R. Sultanov)

4. Mart 6.29 (V. Mustafa-zadeh)

5. Azerbaijan 5.40 (R. Babayev)

6. Aglama 7.49 (R. Sultanov)

7. Reyhan 5.14 (F. Amirov)

8. Tale about caspian 7.36 (R. Sultanov)

MUSICIANS

RAIN SULTANOV: Soprano & tenor sax, ewi, bass clarinet, keyboard,sound & drum programming

SALMAN GAMBAROV: piano

RAUF SULTANOV: acoustic bass

TOFIG JABBAROV: percussions

YASEF EYVAZOV: oud

DAVID KOYFMAN: acoustic bass

RUSLAN HUSEYNOV: bass guitar

RAMIN SULTANOV: drums, tabla

OGTAY RUSTAMOV: trumpet