The Billy's Band - romantic alco-jazz

The Billy’s Band is a famous Tom-Waits-influenced-romantic-alco-jazz-quartet from St Petersburg, Russia. Welcomed soundtrack creators, the authors of 8 top-notch albums and regular participants of various Russian and European music festivals The Billy’s Band have already conquered the heart of Russian, Italian, German, French, Finish, Israeli, Estonian and American public. Their music is a perfect English-Russian cocktail of jazz and blues, Slavonic Lieds, rock ballads and sporadic beats of an enigmatic Russian soul.

Take a glass of a roller coaster life; add a pinch of death and a thimbleful of love... Voila! You get “The Graveyard Dixieland with an Endless Happy End”, which permanently overwhelms the public at The Billy’s Band gigs.

Musicians of
Billy's Band

Billy Novik: contrabass, vocal, piano, banjo

Andrey Ryzhik: guitar, dombra, cymbals, tambourine, howling;

Anton Matezius: Russian accordion, percussion, marimba, howling;

Featuring Mikhail Zhydkikh: saxophone, percussion.

The band performs its own written songs, e.g. Blues In The Head show. It makes its own interpretations for many of Tom Waits’ songs, e.g. Being Tom Waits show. In its list the Band also has programs specially designed for night clubs.