Jimmy Young (1929)
Aleksandr Tsfasman Orchestra. Music: A. Varlamov
Description: The first great Soviet jazzman, Tsfasman gained great fame as head of the first Moscow jazz band, AMA-Jazz, from 1926-1930. From 1927, he regularly appeared on Soviet radio. To the infinite frustration of the proletarian movement, who might have preferred factory whistle choruses, his music was recorded, transmitted through the ether, and he himself performed in clubs, restaurants, theaters, and even Moscow's great Dynamo sports stadium.