Nikolai Kapustin: Aquarium, op. 12

Nikolai Kapustin: Aquarium, op. 12 performed by the Oleg Lundstrem Jazz Orchestra

[@moskvamoya]

The trumpet player is blessed and his name is Konstantin Nosov if im not mistaken?He was a top player of that time....

[@Usefulmusic]

I thought the Soviet Union's cultural bigwigs were totally opposed to jazz. I am amazed that the jazz idiom was so well understood by the band.

[@HarryPeirseYo]

Man, this is really cool...

[@uroko2993]

Soviet kind of blue...

[@pianonime]

What? What did you think the Tchaikovsky competition was for? It was to prove Soviets were better than Americans. Ironically an American won the first one (Van Cliburn)

[@SpaghettiToaster]

If that was its purpose, they wouldn't have let Van Cliburn win. now would they?

[@pianonime]

The Soviet Union probably didn't care as long as they could play jazz better than the Americans

[@T_WTX]

Yea it was to prove the Soviets were better than the Americans. They were, in a few fields, with a few top people. They wanted to catch up with and surpass capitalism. They achieved that - they overtook capitalism in collapsing (Soviets 1989, life expectancy declining by 10 yrs, U.S. 2008, life expectancy declining by a few months).

[@MrAudioProducer]

Fantastic stupidity...