Q. You toured India last year as part of the NCPA Jus’ Jazz festival, as The Igor Butman Quartet. This time, you are here with a bigger group — The Igor Butman Big Band. What are your expectations from
the tour?
A. It’s my fourth tour in India. But this is the first time when I am bringing my orchestra (The Igor Butman Big Band). It’s a great honour, and fun too. We want to show our new Jazz programme to music lovers in India, and I hope they’ll like Russian Jazz!

Igor Butman (centre) performing with his band at a live concert