|
Jazz På Ryska
''Jazz på ryska'' ("Jazz in Russian") is an album by jazz pianist Jan Johansson. It was issued in 1967 and consists of jazz arrangements of Russian folk songs. The mixer at recording was Olof Swembel. The album was originally published by the record company Megafon. In 2005 a remastered version produced by disc label Heptagon Records was released, with six bonus tracks on the CD and the full recording sessions (around 100 minutes) in a data section as mp3 files. ''Jazz på ryska'' and ''Jazz på svenska'' were also compiled together as the single CD ''Folkvisor'' in 1988, also reissued on Heptagon 1994. Track listings Composer: ''traditional'' unless otherwise specified. Original LP #''Nära hemmet'' – 2:21 #''På ängen stod en björk'' (Vo polye bereza stojala) – 2:52 - #''Stepp, min stepp'' (Polyushko-polye) – 3:45 #''Bandura'' – 2:25 #''Längs floden'' – 2:06 #''Det går en kosack'' – 1:23 #''Mellan branta stränder'' – 2:42 #''Pråmdragarnas sång på Volga' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jan Johansson (jazz Musician)
Jan Johansson (16 September 1931 – 9 November 1968) was a Swedish jazz pianist. His album '' Jazz på svenska'' (''Jazz in Swedish'') is the best selling jazz release ever in Sweden; it has sold over a quarter of a million copies and has been streamed more than 50 million times on Spotify. He was the father of former HammerFall drummer Anders Johansson and Stratovarius keyboardist Jens Johansson, who run Heptagon Records which keeps their father's recordings available. Biography Johansson was a native of Söderhamn, in the Hälsingland province of Sweden. Studying classical piano as a child, he would also go on to master the guitar, organ and accordion, before turning on to swing and bebop as a teenager. He met saxophonist Stan Getz while at university. He abandoned his studies to play jazz full-time, and worked with many American jazz musicians, becoming the first European to be invited to join the Jazz at the Philharmonic package. The years 1961 to 1968, produced a s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jazz
Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Its roots are in blues, ragtime, European harmony, African rhythmic rituals, spirituals, hymns, marches, vaudeville song, and dance music. Since the 1920s Jazz Age, it has been recognized as a major form of musical expression in traditional and popular music. Jazz is characterized by swing and blue notes, complex chords, call and response vocals, polyrhythms and improvisation. As jazz spread around the world, it drew on national, regional, and local musical cultures, which gave rise to different styles. New Orleans jazz began in the early 1910s, combining earlier brass band marches, French quadrilles, biguine, ragtime and blues with collective polyphonic improvisation. However, jazz did not begin as a single musical tradition in New Orleans or elsewhere. In the 1930s, arranged dance-oriented swing big bands, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Enhanced CD
Enhanced CD is a certification mark of the Recording Industry Association of America for various technologies that combine audio and computer data for use in both CD-Audio and CD-ROM players. Formats that fall under the ''enhanced CD'' category include mixed mode CD (Yellow Book CD-ROM/Red Book CD-DA), CD-i, CD-i Ready, and CD-Extra/CD-Plus ( Blue Book, also called simply Enhanced Music CD or E-CD). See also * * CDVU+ * DualDisc * Mixed ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jazz På Svenska
''Jazz på svenska'' ("Jazz in Swedish") is an album by the Swedish jazz pianist Jan Johansson (jazz musician), Jan Johansson. It was issued in 1964 and consists of jazz arrangements of Swedish folk music, Swedish folk songs. All arrangements are very sparse, consisting only of Johansson on piano and Georg Riedel (Swedish jazz musician), Georg Riedel on double bass. It went on to become the best selling Swedish jazz album of all time, selling a quarter of a million copies. Many of the tracks hold a distinct renown in Swedish society, especially the lead track "Visa från Utanmyra" (Song from Utanmyra). In 2005 a remastered version produced by disc label Heptagon Records was released with four bonus tracks on the CD and the full recording sessions (109 minutes) in a Enhanced CD, data section as mp3 files. Track listing Personnel ;Main personnel * Jan Johansson – piano, arrangements * Georg Riedel (jazz musician), Georg Riedel – double bass ;Additional personnel * Olof Svembe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Polyushko-polye
"Song of the Plains" (), also known as "Meadowlands", "Cavalry of the Steppes" or "O Fields, My Fields", is a Soviet song. In Russian, ''póle'' (поле) means 'plain', and ''pólyushko'' (полюшко) is a diminutive and hypocoristic form of ''póle''. Soviet arrangements The music was composed by Lev Knipper, with lyrics by Viktor Gusev in 1933. The song was part of the symphony with chorus (lyrics by Gusev) "A Poem about a Komsomol Soldier" (Поэма о бойце-комсомольце) composed in 1934. The original lyrics are sung from the perspective of a Red Army recruit, who proudly leaves his home to keep watch against his homeland's enemies. The song was covered many times by many artists in the Soviet Union, including a well-known rock version recorded by Poyushchiye Gitary, released c. 1967. The song has been regularly performed and recorded by the Alexandrov Ensemble, best known as the Red Army Choir, and it is listed in the Alexandrov Ensemble discography. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Song Of The Volga Boatmen
The "Song of the Volga Boatmen" (known in Russian as Эй, ухнем! y, ukhnyem!, "Yo, heave-ho!" after the refrain) is a well-known traditional Russian song collected by Mily Balakirev and published in his book of folk songs in 1866. It was sung by burlaks, or barge-haulers, on the Volga River. Balakirev published it with only one verse (the first). The other two verses were added at a later date. Ilya Repin's famous painting '' Barge Haulers on the Volga'' depicts such burlaks in Tsarist Russia toiling along the Volga. The song was popularized by Feodor Chaliapin, and has been a favorite concert piece of bass singers ever since. Bill Finegan's jazz arrangement for the Glenn Miller band took the song to No. 1 in the US charts in 1941. Russian composer Alexander Glazunov based one of the themes of his symphonic poem "Stenka Razin" on the song. Spanish composer Manuel de Falla wrote an arrangement of the song, which was published under the name ''Canto de los remeros del Vo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moscow Nights
"Moscow Nights", originally titled "Leningrad Nights", is a Soviet patriotic song written by Mikhail Matusovsky and composed by Vasily Solovyov-Sedoy. It was later covered as "Midnight in Moscow" by Kenny Ball. Composition and initial success Composer Vasily Solovyov-Sedoy and poet Mikhail Matusovsky wrote the song in 1955 under the title "Leningrad Nights". At the request of the Soviet Ministry of Culture, the song was renamed "Moscow Nights" with corresponding changes to the lyrics. In 1956, "Moscow Nights" was recorded by Vladimir Troshin, a young actor of the Moscow Art Theatre, for a scene in a documentary about the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic's athletic competition Spartakiad in which the athletes rest in '' Podmoskovye'', the Moscow suburbs. The film did nothing to promote the song, but thanks to radio broadcasts it gained popularity. Covers The Dutch jazz group New Orleans Syncopators recorded the arrangement of the song under the title 'Mi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vasily Solovyov-Sedoi
Vasily Pavlovich Solovyov-Sedoy (; – 2 December 1979) was a Soviet classical composer and songwriter who was born and died in Leningrad. Originally named Solovyov, when he entered the Union of Soviet Composers he added the suffix "Sedoy", meaning grey-haired, to avoid confusion with another composer with the same surname. Solovyov-Sedoy composed the music for many songs such as "Moscow Nights" () and " Nightingales" (). He also wrote music for numerous films. Filmography * '' Heavenly Slug'' (1945) * '' The First Glove'' (1946) * ''World Champion'' (1954) * ''Good Morning'' (1955) * '' Maksim Perepelitsa'' (1955) * '' Be Careful, Grandma!'' (1960) * '' Don Tale'' (1964) * ''The Salvos of the Aurora Cruiser'' (1965) * '' Virineya'' (1968) * ''Fitil ''Fitil'' ( rus, Фитиль, p=fʲɪˈtʲilʲ, ''Fuse'') is a popular Soviet short film and television anthology series which ran for 608 episodes. Some of the episodes were aimed at children, and were called , ''Little Fuse'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mikhail Matusovsky
Mikhail Lvovich Matusovsky (; 23 July 1915, Lugansk, Slavyanoserbsk uezd, Yekaterinoslav Governorate, Russian Empire – 16 July 1990, Moscow) was a Soviet and Russian poet, screenwriter, translator and war correspondent. Laureate of the USSR State Prize (1977). Biography His father is Lev Matusovsky (Russian Wikipedia) Mikhail Lvovich Matusovsky was born in Luhansk, Yekaterinoslav Governorate, Russian Empire in the Jewish family of a photographer. Graduated from Maxim Gorky Literature Institute (1939). PhD (1941). A participant of the Great Patriotic War, and a member of the Union of Soviet Writers (1939). He is famous for his lyric poems many of which became lyrics of the popular songs: "School Waltz", "In the Damp Earth-Huts", "The Sacred Stone", "The Windows of Moscow", "Don't Forget" and "Moscow Nights" which was sung at the Moscow Youth Festival in 1957 and was played also by American pianist Van Cliburn in the White House in 1979, on the occasion of a visit by the forme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georg Riedel (jazz Musician)
Georg Riedel (8 January 1934 – 25 February 2024) was a Czechoslovak-born Swedish double bass player and composer. Riedel migrated to Sweden at the age of four and attended school in Stockholm, including the Adolf Fredrik's Music School. The best known recording featuring Riedel is probably Jan Johansson's '' Jazz på svenska'' (''Jazz in Swedish''), a minimalist-jazz compilation of folk songs recorded in 1962–1963, though Riedel recorded with other leading Swedish musicians including trumpeter Jan Allan and Arne Domnérus. Riedel's profile as a composer derives almost exclusively from writing music for Astrid Lindgren movies, including the main theme from the ''Emil i Lönneberga'' ("Emil of Maple Hills") movies. He also composed the music for several films by Arne Mattsson in the 1960s as well as for film adaptions of novels by Stig Dagerman. Riedel also played on ''Jazz at the Pawnshop'' in 1977. Biography Riedel was born in Karlovy Vary, Czechoslovakia, to a Sudeten G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Egil Johansen (musician)
Egil "Bop" Johansen (11 January 1934 – 4 December 1998) was a Norwegian-Swedish jazz drummer, teacher, composer, and arranger. Life Johansen was born in Oslo. He was considered already in his teens as one of the best drummers and was a professional musician from the age of 16. He received the nickname "Bop" because he was especially good at playing bebop. He was always open to the new styles of jazz that he encountered. His professional career started in Einar Stenberg’s orchestra in the summer of 1950 with ''Svalerødkilens badhotell'' and continued in the autumn with ''Svaes Danseskole'', after which he joined Egil Monn-Iversen’s orchestra and Kjell Johansen’s experimental band for 1951-1953. He played in Rowland Greenberg’s orchestra in 1952. He moved to Sweden in 1954 at the invitation of Simon Brehm. He entered immediately into collaboration with the Swedish jazz elite of Arne Domnérus, Bengt Hallberg, Rune Gustafsson, Georg Riedel, Jan Johansson and othe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arne Domnérus
Sven Arne Domnérus (20 December 1924 – 2 September 2008) was a Swedish jazz saxophonist and clarinetist. Career He began to play the clarinet at the age of 11 but had taken up the saxophone by the time he left school and then turned professional. In 1949 he performed at the Paris Jazz Festival and with Charlie Parker when Parker was on tour in Sweden in 1950. A few years later he recorded with Clifford Brown, Art Farmer, and James Moody. From the middle 1950s to the middle 1960s he was a featured soloist in the Swedish Radio Big Band. He wrote for film and television and recorded with Lars Gullin and Bengt Hallberg. With Bengt-Arne Wallin, Rolf Ericson, and Åke Persson (the latter two were former members of Duke Ellington's Orchestra), he participated in the Jazz Workshops organised for the Ruhrfest in Recklinghausen by Hans Gertberg from the Hamburg radio station. He recorded several times with Quincy Jones in Sweden and is featured throughout, "The Midnight Sun Never Set ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
