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LITHUANIAN JAZZ, Vol.1-3
SECD011
The 3 CD album, Lithuanian Jazz 19291980, is a retrospective of development of jazz in Lithuania. The collection offers more than three hours of music: from samples of early archive recordings from the 1920s and 30s, to Lithuanian jazz masters from the 1960s and 80s, recorded at the Lithuanian Radio and Vilnius Recording Studio.s.
The 20th century, sometimes called the epoch of jazz and skycrapers, was nearly two decades late in coming to Lithuania. With the proclamation of independence in 1918, it was not until the mid-1930s after slow and difficult biulding of the new state, that Lithuania reached economic prosperity. The provisional capital of Kaunas became a small European city, with stylish restaurants, cafes , cinemas and trendy shops. According to period press, the restaurants andcafes were all crammed during musical sessions, where one could hear the most popular Europoen and American hits, and tunes from the various musicals. Local jazz bands tried to match the best examples of swing orchestras from abroad, and the public learned the latest dances tango, fox trot, Charleston. Agreat deal of Lithuanian popular music was recorded and released by companies like Columbia, His Masters Voice, etc., during the inter-war period.
CD1 begins with a recording a unique track by Vic Briedis, a Lithuanian-American pianist, playing with clarinettist Tony Parenti, and by the Danielius Pomerancas Orchestra, akin to the swing band style. Lovers of big band jazz will also enjoy the 1960s recordings by the Lithuanian Light Music Orchestra, conducted by Juozas Tiškus. Tiškus orchestra was compared to Oleg Lundstrems big band the best in the Soviet Union at that time. During the period of political thaw, there was quite an intensive life at the so-called youth café-reading rooms, which became semi-legal jazz clubs. The first jazz festivals emerged in Tallinn and Elektrėnai.Recordings on CD 1 from this period include tracks by pianist Vyacheslav Ganelin, the Oleg Molokoyedov Quintet, and the
Klaipeda Jazz Ensemble ,,Žerutis.
CD 2 offers a broad panorama of Lithuanian jazz from the 1970s era of political torpor and isolation:studio recrdings by the Klaipėda Faculty Jazz Orchestra, and concert recordings from the Baltijos jaunystė festival a real breakthrough by the generation of young jazz leaders ( represented here by saxophonist Petras Vyšniauskas, pianist Saulius šiaučiulis, and others).
CD3 is dedicated to the great free jazz innovators pianist and composer Vyacheslav Ganelin, multiinstrumentalist Vladimir Chekasin and drummer Vladimir Tarasov. This trio began its career in Vilnius; later, until the 1980s, it performed a great deal in the Soviet Union and abroad, and made a number recordings. Their concert programmes were appreciated for their novel and radical music concepts, which not infrequently aroused great excitement on the part of local, and especially foreign, critics and audiences. CD3 includes concert recordings during 197580 in Palanga, Vilnius, Moscow, W.Berlin, fragments from their first LP, Con anima, and historically valuable 1971 recordings by Vladimir Chekasin at the Prague Mozarteum studio, which appear on Lithuanian jazz collection with kind permission by the Supraphon.
