[Dixielandjazz] JCJB in Russia

[Marek Boym]

WORK IS THE CURSE OF THE JAZZ CLASS!
Hello Don,
Never mind the food - how was the vodka?  some of the Russian vodkas
are excellent!
Somewhwre I've read that Russians were never exposed to traditional
jazz, only to big-band swing and then to modern, so that there were
hardly any traditional bands in the Soviet Union other thatn the
Leningrad Dixieland Band.  this, of course, is nonsense, unless the
Moskovski Dixieland came from Moscow, New York (but then, why is all
the text on our LPs in Russian?), as did the Ural Dixieland Band, the
Tallin Dixieland Band (OK, it's not Russia, but it was the USSR), et
al.
Glad you've enjoyed Russia (no, I'm not from Russia, even if I can
speak the language and read Cyryllic characters).
I have enjoyed your big band broadcasts (I have most of the Boots and
His Buddies' recordings, but not don Albert's).
Cheers,
Marek
On 23/04/07, Don Mopsick <mophandl at landing.com> wrote:
> List-Message-Recipient: marekboym at gmail.com
> We're back from Russia. The people went nuts over the music. Standing
> ovations, encores, flowers. We played 9 concerts in 17 days, traveled about
> 1/3 of the circumferece of the earth's surface. The farthest point east was
> Chita in Siberia, closer to Texas if you continued east than going west.
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> Every concert was preceded by a TV/radio press conference. We were fed great
> Russian food before after each concert. The concerts were all in
> Philharmonic halls in the cities we played. Some of the living conditions
> were quite primitive, some of the hotels smelled funny, threre were about 4
> ocassions when we were awake over 24 hrs. to make the next gig. None of us
> got sick. We traveled on one leg in Siberia 42 hours straight on the
> Trans-Siberian Railroad, which was like going back in time 50 years.
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> To read Jim Cullum's blogs sent from the road by yours truly, go to
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> http://blogs.mysanantonio.com/weblogs/cards/jazzing_up_russia/
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> More photos and the blogs will be posted on our site at
> www.riverwalkjazz.org <http://www.riverwalkjazz.org/>
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> I was using the Cingular wireless laptop international quad-frequency Sierra
> card. The bandwidth was abysmal and unreliable, but I did manage to send an
> email to someone from the middle of Siberia aboard a train! For the most
> part I had to wait until we got to a place where there was cable available
> to send file attachments and photos. I would have been better off relying on
> available Wi-Fi in the hotels.
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> The Russian wireless infrastructure is about 5 years behind but I have no
> doubt they will catch up fast.
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> mopo
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> Don Mopsick, Riverwalk Webmaster
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