Rain Sultanov
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April 29, 1965 Baku, Azerbaijan |
| Genres | ethno-jazz, contemporary jazz, fusion |
| Occupation(s) | jazz saxophonist, composer |
| Years active | 1995–present |
 Rain Sultanov "Tale of My Land"
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Rain Sultanov "Footprints"
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Rain Aladdin oglu Sultanov (born April 29, 1965, Baku) is an Azerbaijani jazz musician, saxophonist and Honorary Artist of Azerbaijan.
Rain Sultanov was born on April 29, 1965 in Baku. His brothers Rauf and Ramin are also musicians. At the age of 14, Rain entered a clarinet class of a musical school according to advice of his brothers. Rain’s interest to jazz music and especially to the creativity of “Weather Report” group and Miles Davis is connected to this period. At the age of 16, Rain mastered on saxophone. He played at military orchestra while being in army for four years. Continuing his musical education at Baku Musical School named after A.Zeynalli, Rain Sultanov took the first place at the Republican Contest among specialized schools, in 1985. He performed compositions of Tchaikovsky, Mozart, Weber and others. At that time Rain had already begun to perform jazz compositions too, and was invited to work in “Ashiqlar” group of Polad Bülbüloğlu, which also experimented also on jazz music.
In 1988, Rain worked at State Song Theatre on Rashid Behbudov’s invitation and performed compositions of Charlie Parker and Michael Brecker. He entered Azerbaijan State Conservatoire in the same year. In 1989, Rain as invited to Azerbaijani State Orchestra “Gaya”. Musical manager of the orchestra was Tofig Shabanov, on invitation of whose Rain worked as a soloist and showed himself not only as a good improvisator and also as a talented music arranger. In 1992, Rain was invited to work as a soloist at Estrada-Symphonic Orchestra of Azerbaijan State Broadcasting Union under management of Faig Sujeddinov. In that period Rain performed at jazz programs and solo concerts. In 1992-94’s, Rain played in different jazz clubs and concert halls of Turkey and Moscow. In 1995, Rain composed his first compositions called “Jokers and dance” and “Day off”.
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