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The Collective of Cool Cats:
Jazz-Classical from Beyond the Iron Curtain

Poster for Apocryphonia's Soviet Jazz Concert

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Heliconian Hall (35 Hazelton Avenue)
Friday, April 17 - 7:00pm

It's likely that the former Soviet Union is not what comes to mind when you think of American Jazz. This concert barely scratches the surface of Jazz music's influence in the former USSR.

Jazz had a rocky relationship with the powers in charge, and was even effectively banned (alongside saxophones between 1949 to 1953. Despite it all, the syncopated rhythms, flashy improvised solos, and nasty chords of jazz managed to inspire musicians and listeners all over Eastern Europe and West, Central and East Asia. Prepare your ears for some stride piano, wailing saxophones, tributes to Bill Evans & George Shearing, plus more from composers across Eastern Europe and the Caucasus Region.

Performers:
Wallace Halladay, alto sax
Ivan Estey Jovanovic, piano
&
The Ezra Duo (Jacob Clewell, viola and Sasha Bult-Ito, piano)

Works By:
Alexander Tsfasman, Nikolai Kapustin, Arno Babajanian, Vagif Mustafazadeh, Andrei Eshpai, Yuri Chugunov, and more.

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