Alexander Tsfasman - потому что у меня есть ты (Slow Foxtrot)

The title means probably something like "Because I have you..."
What beautiful pieces Alex found again.. I mean russian early Jazz music, how cool is that!
Now, Alexander Tansman, ....., I mean Tsfasman, 1906-1971 , was a Soviet Jazz pianist, composer, conductor, arranger, publisher and activist. He was an important figure in Soviet Jazz from the period of the mid-1920s until the late 1960s. Tsfasman was born in Alexandrovsk in the Russian empire, and graduated in 1923, where he played percussion in the orchestra, and graduated from the Moscow Conservatory in 1930 from the piano class of Felix Blumenfeld.

So I am pretty bad at jazz improvisations, but one thing I know, we don't wanna play the same theme without any alteration 6 times in a row. It gets pretty boring... so be surprised :)
From the german wiki (which i happen to be able to read) i infer that he was basically the first russian and first solist to perform jazz music in soviet time.
1957 antwortete er auf die Frage, ob er ein neues Orchester plane: „Ich bin alt. Ich habe einen guten Verdienst, eine Datscha auf dem Lande, eine Frau und einen Wagen. Der Komponistenverband verlangt von mir nur, dass ich ihr jeden Monat einen neuen Marsch, eine Polka oder einen Walzer abliefere...also was soll ich mich abrackern...“

That's pretty amusing. It basically says "1957 he was asked if he wanted a new orchestra and he said 'I am old. I earn well, have a Dacha, a woman and a car. The association of composers just wants me to come up with a new march, a polka or a waltz every month. So why should I struggle with that"

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