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WORLD THROUGH A JAZZMAN’S EYES

June 25th, 2016 Sergey Letov  Analytics Нет комментариев

Sergei Letov Sergei Letov sneers at the western culture. Poland, 1988 In pre-perestroika times, I happened to visit the SOLO DUO TRIO festival in Krakow. I recall that the Poles, when hearing Russian language, immediately asked to sell them Soviet rubles at a very high exchange rate as compared with the official rate. Arkady Kirichenko […]

Memorial Notes on Russian Jazz Legend, Vladimir Resitskiy (1944-2001), real legend of the Russian jazz.

June 25th, 2016 Sergey Letov  Analytics Нет комментариев

Sergey Letov It was year 1980 when I heard Vladimir Resitskiy for the first time. His group gave a concert in one of the Moscow newly-built halls, I think, it was the Olympic Village concert hall. It was the first new jazz group live concert that I heard then (before that I only had disk […]

Brief History of New Improvisatory Music in Soviet Russia

June 25th, 2016 Sergey Letov  Analytics Нет комментариев

Sergey Letov Some apocryphal tales claim that history of new improvisatory music in Russia began in the 60’s. Before I started performing, I heard from Boris Labkovsky, a very versatile coeval of mine, that there was a Moscow musician Victor Lukin, who invented such free improvisatory music and performed it. Later, drummer Mikhail Zhukov, who […]

Capitals, Province and Emigration

November 4th, 2003 Sergey Letov  Analytics Нет комментариев
Capitals, Province and Emigration

There was a time when we studied algebras in the Novosibirsk Boarding School of Mathematics and Physics. I remember learning the attributes of transitivity, reflexivity, symmetry… The teacher gave a funny example to explain the anti-symmetry in plain terms: A=>B does not mean that B=>A, and if you replace “=>” by the words “love” or […]