"Tenor saxophone virtuoso Azat Bayazitov proudly announces the December 2023 release of Expectations, his third album, which documents his increasingly personal musical vision as an instrumentalist, composer and musical storyteller." — Ted Panken (DownBeat, Jazz Times) Azat Bayazitov is a Russian-born and New York-based outstanding saxophonist, composer, and arranger. Azat is a Master degree graduate of the JAZZCAMPUS (Basel, Switzerland), studied with Mark Turner, Larry Grenadier, Jorge Rossy, Guillermo Klein, Domenic Landolf and many others, and GNESINS Russian Academy of Music (Moscow, Russia), teacher Alexander Oseychuk. The winner of international jazz competitions, ex-soloist of ‘Igor Butman Moscow Jazz Orchestra’. He has been touring in the USA, Canada, Europe, India, South Korea, China, and Russia as well. Albums as a leader: - IF YOU STILL TRUST (2015, Butman Music records) - THE DOORS ARE OPEN (2020, Rainy Days records) - EXPECTATIONS (December 15, 2023, Self-release)