[Dixielandjazz] Dixieland in the Soviet Union

[Dick Baker]

At 09:37 AM 4/24/2007, Marek Boym wrote:
>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...

Marek:

1. You probably heard it from me, right here.
2. It's not nonsense.  What I said was that the Leningrad Dixieland band 
was the first (and, as far as I know, the only) *professional* trad jazz 
band in Russia.

I know several of the members of Moskovski Dixieland -- even had one of 
them stay with me for a week one time in Virginia.

As Baron von Munchhausen was wont to say, "Was you there, Charlie?"

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