Buk certainly creates that mood on his eponymously-titled debut album, which was featured on Groove Boutique (a nationally-syndicated soul/jazz radio show), and added to over 20 national and international jazz playlists.

The album has garnered great reviews, most notably from famed critic Nat Hentoff, who wrote:

"Askold Buk plays with the passion born of complete mastery of his instrument so that - as Dizzy Gillespie once said of superior players - he knows what notes not to play. Buk communicates with great presence, but without showboating or otherwise indulging in technical virtuosity for its own sake."

Askold is no stranger to instrumental music - he has scored numerous episodes of the Emmy-winning PBS documentary series Frontline, as well as 20/20 (ABC), Primetime (ABC) and In Search of America (ABC). He wrote and produced the score to the documentary feature film Obscene, which premiered at the 2007 Toronto Film Festival.

Buk's songs were featured on The Hills (MTV), P.O.V. (PBS) and New York 1. In 2008, he wrote the music for the permanent interactive installation at the Action Center Museum to End World Hunger in New York City.

Askold Buk