''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
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files.
''Jazz på ryska'' and ''
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 ...
'' 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
"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 ...
) – 3:45
#''Bandura'' – 2:25
#''Längs floden'' – 2:06
#''Det går en kosack'' – 1:23
#''Mellan branta stränder'' – 2:42
#''Pråmdragarnas sång på Volga'' (
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 ...
) – 3:43
#''Jag broderade till gryningen'' – 1:53
#''Kvällar i Moskvas förstäder'' (
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 succ ...
; music:
Vasilij Solovjov-Sedoj / text:
Michail Matusovskij) – 4:19
#''Entonigt klingar den lilla klockan'' – 1:56
#''Ströva omkring'' – 0:47
CD Edition (2005)
#''Stepp, min stepp'' – 3:45
#''Mellan branta stränder'' – 2:42
#''Pråmdragarnas sång på Volga'' – 3:43
#''På ängen stod en björk'' – 2:52
#''Nära hemmet'' – 2:21
#''Bandura'' – 2:25
#''Längs floden'' – 2:06
#''Ströva omkring'' – 0:47
#''Entonigt klingar den lilla klockan'' – 1:56
#''Det går en kosack'' – 1:23
#''Kvällar i Moskvas förstäder'' (music: Vasilij Solovjov-Sedoj / text: Michail Matusovskij) – 4:19
#''Jag broderade till gryningen'' – 1:53
#''Pråmdragarnas sång på Volga'' – 3:35
#''Längs floden'' – 2:24
#''Entonigt klingar den lilla klockan'' – 1:37
#''På ängen stod en björk'' – 2:43
#''Kvällar i Moskvas förstäder'' – 3:28
#''Det går en kosack'' – 2:20
:Tracks 13-18 are bonus tracks with alternate takes.
Contributors
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Jan Johansson – piano
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Georg Riedel – bass
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Egil Johansen – drums
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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 profession ...
– clarinet
*
– trumpet
*
Lennart Åberg
Lennart Åberg (26 February 1942 – 30 September 2021) was a Swedish jazz saxophonist and composer. In 1972, he founded Rena Rama, a Swedish jazz fusion group. He also taught jazz history at the Royal College of Music, Stockholm. He was a membe ...
– tenor saxophone
References
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1967 albums
Jan Johansson (jazz musician) albums