Evgeny Pobozhiy, Russian Prodigy, Wins International Jazz Guitar Competition : NPR
Dec 3, 2019: "Evgeny Pobozhiy, a virtuoso guitarist with a busy profile on the Moscow jazz scene, has won the Herbie Hancock Institute of Jazz International Guitar Competition. As winner of the prize, one of the most prestigious of its kind, he'll receive $30,000 in scholarship funds and a recording contract with the Concord Music Group....Pobozhiy, who will turn 31 later this month, secured his win with "502 Blues," composed by Jimmy Rowles and best known for a version recorded in 1966 by Wayne Shorter; and "Falling Grace," a Steve Swallow composition also recorded that year."
