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19:00 | Lundstrem Chamber Jazz Orchestra |
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Lundstrem State Chamber Jazz Orchestra conducted by Boris Frumkin presents its great summer concert including world jazz masterpieces. The State Jazz Music Chamber Orchestra of Oleg Lundstrem has a unique history. It is the most "Long Playing" Big Band in the world. This fact is recorded in the Russian Ginnes Book of Re-cords. The orchestra of Count Basie, for example, was founded a year later. The great interest in Jazz came to the young Oleg Lundstrem in 1932, when a platter with the record of the Duke Elling-ton's orchestra "Dear Old Southland" occasionally got into his hands. This became the milestone in the choice of the further path. Oleg Lundstrem began to study Jazz, listenning to the orchestra. In 1934 the friends, the grown together young musicians decided to assemble their own jazz orchestra. For years the orchestra toured through more than 500 cities of our vast Motherland and dozens of the cities abroad. The orchestra gave more than 10 000 concerts and covered uncount-able touring miles. Hundreds of thousands of spectators have vis-ited the concerts, millions listened to the orchestra over the radio and TV. Together with the recording studio "Melody" apart from the number of platters with popular and dancing music they re-corded 10 LPs of Jazz music, both with the pieces of local compos-ers and jazz classics arranged by the orchestra. The musicians of the orchestra have recorded several compact disks, including a multimedia one, which was recorded with the collaborating Ukrainian orchestra under the baton of Fokin. The credo of the orchestra is in deep penetration into Jazz mastery, into its traditions, on the one hand, and the strive to contribute into the genre by creating and performing of the unique and original jazz compositions and arrangements on the other. Summing up the results of the new creative period in the work of the orchestra, it is possible to say that irrespective of the gloomy forecast of the skeptics, who either "bury" Jazz, saying that it is the music of the "old people", or bury the orchestra, saying that the orchestra is not the one it used to be - still both the Big Band of Oleg Lundstrem and classic Jazz, performed by the orchestra are alive and bring joy to many and many spectators in Russia and beyond its boundaries. The Orchestra continues to write its history.
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