OrchestraM. Blanter Katyusha arr. Oleg Lundstrem, 1946

Soloists: trombones, saxes, trumpet, tenor sax, piano

Traditional Song Of Volga Boatmen Glenn Miller Orch., 1942/arr.by B. Finegan

Soloists: trombones, trumpet, bass trombone, trumpet

L. Knipper Meadowland Benny Goodman Orch.1962Soloists: trombones, trumpets, clarinet, alto sax, clarinet

Anna Buturlina (vocal)V. Basner It has recentl beeny, it was a long time ago

I. Dunaevsky My Love

Vocal duet: Anna Buturlina/Alexander PanayotovV. Solovjov-Sedoy Pilots’ song

Alexander Panayotov (vocal)N. Bogoslovsky — Dark Night

Soloist: tenor sax

M. Tabachnikov Let’s Smoke, My Friend

Vocal duet: Anna Buturlina/Alexander PanayotovJ. McHugh/H. Adamson Comin’ In On A Wing And A Prayer

Alexander Panayotov (vocal)N. Bogoslovsky For Three Years I’ve Dreamed of You

OrchestraM. Blanter Song of the War Reporters

Soloists: clarinet, trumpet, trombone, saxes

Concert program:

OrchestraB. Frumkin Listening to Rachmaninoff (Based on a Theme from Second Piano Concerto)

Soloists: soprano sax, piano, baritone sax, drums

E. Garner Misty arr. by F. FosterSoloist — baritone sax

L. Prima Sing, sing, sing arr.by D. Wolpe.Soloists: clarinet, drums

D. Ellington — J. Tizol Caravan arr. by B. FrumkinSoloists: trombone, alto sax, rumpet, drums

Deborah Brown (vocal, USA) Special guest

I. Berlin AlwaysSoloist: trombone

I. Berlin I’ve Got My Love To Keep Me WarmSoloist: soprano sax

F. Waller /A. Razaf Honeysuckle Rose

J. McHugh / D. Fields On The Sunny Side Of The StreetSoloist: trumpet

OrchestraB. Frumkin Samara Fair

Soloist: trumpet, trombone, sopranino sax

Vocal duet: Anna Buturlina/Alexander PanayotovB. Thiele / G. D. Weiss What a Wonderful World

Soloist: trombone

Alexander Panayotov (vocal)D. Tukhmanov Victory Day

The State Chamber Orchestra of Jazz Music named after Oleg Lundstrem has  a unique history. It is the most “Long Playing” big band in the world. This fact is recorded in the Russian Ginnes Book of Records.

Big interest in Jazz came to young Oleg Lundstrem in 1932, when a disk record with the Duke Ellington’s orchestra per-forming “Dear Old Southland” got into his hands. This became the milestone in the choice of the further path. Oleg Lunds-trem began to study Jazz.

In 1934 Oleg and his friends — young musicians — decided to assemble their own jazz orchestra. Thus the band was formed to be gradually gaining populari-ty in the course of years. It all started with amateur concerts at the dance parties and balls in Harbin with the broadcasting on the local radio and then successful perfor-mances in Shanghai at famous “Majestic” and “Paramount” to follow.

At that time Oleg got the idea to ar-

Oleg LundstremJazz Orchestra

range Russian songs in the Jazz style. He made arrangements of “There Lived Once a Captain Brave…” by I. Dunayevsky, “Alien Cities” by A. Vertinsky, “Katyusha” M. Blanter and many others. All of them become very popular with the public. Such improvisers as Alexei Kotyakov, who performed as a soloist, Igor Lundstrem, Alexander Gravis were the best musicians of the city and improved the Orchestra’s fame. The performances of the orchestra were accompanied by the dance review of sisters Anderson and the vocal soloist Nina Kellan. The orchestra became a hit and the newspapers called Oleg Lunds-trem “the King of Jazz of the Far East”.

In the postwar period the orchestra continued to performed at the city’s thea-tres “Liceum”, “Carlton” and the  Soviet Club.

Then the political situation changed worse as the country was fighting for its self-determination and the question of moving to some other place aroused. The

musician decided to return to the USSR as all of them were the Soviet citizens.

At the consulate in Shanghai they were given to understand that jazzmen could have many problems in the country of the winning socialism. They didn’t believe, though.

In 1947 the orchestra with their fami-lies arrived in the USSR. The musicians were offered to choose between several cities to settle. Since they wanted to get the higher music education, their choice fell on Kazan with a local Conservatoire of Music. Plans to become the State Jazz Group of the Tatar Republic. Were ruined by the decree of the Central Committee of the Communist Party: it turned out that people didn’t need any jazz. So the musi-cians went to work at the movie-theatres of the city, some played in the Opera house orchestra.

In 1934 Oleg and his friends — young musicians — decided to assemble their own jazz orchestra.

Шанзай, зал Парамаунт

In 1956 by a special decree of the Minister of Culture Oleg Lundstrem Orchestra was formed officially. Hence the active touring and concert life of the big band began.

In November 1998 Oleg Lundstrem Orchestra became the first jazz big band ever to perform in the Big Concert Hall of the Moscow Conservatoire of Music.

Oleg worked in the Opera House orchestra as a violinist. In autumn 1948, together with a big group of former Shanghai musicians, he entered the Con-servatoire of Music.

At that time the artistic director of the Tatar State Philharmonic society Mr. S. Kly-utcharyov began to realize the perspec-tive of the young Shanghai musicians and did everything to keep the orchestra from falling into pieces. He organized concerts in Kazan and in the environs for them. Oleg Lundstrem started to arrange popular Tatar and Soviet songs in vocal and instrumental variants and made up a whole concert program with these new compositions.

Now the orchestra’s performances around the country were on regular basis. In 1956 by a special decree of the Minister of Culture Oleg Lundstrem Orchestra was formed officially. Hence the active touring and concert life of the big band began. Producer Mr. M. I. Tsyn took the most active part in the concerting process.

In 1989 by the invitation of Oleg Lundstrem, Alexander Bryksin became the director of the group. Thanks to his energy and creative approach the orchestra man-aged to preserve its entirety and status despite many difficulties. In 1991 Vladis-lav Kadersky joined them as a second conductor. He prepared a number of inter-esting performances, including a special program dedicated to the anniversary of Count Basie, concert tours with jazz vo-calist Debra Brown etc. Mr. Kadersky had been financing the work of the orchestra musicians from his own budget for three years without any demand for glory and prosperity.

In November 1998 Oleg Lundstrem Orchestra became the first jazz big band ever to perform in the Big Concert Hall of the Moscow Conservatoire of Music. Many interesting projects then followed — a concert with the pianist Arkadi Petrov, opera singer Lyubov Kazarnovskaya and an outstanding jazz singer Debra Brown 

among many others. In 2003 Georgy Garanyan, a saxophone player and a laureate of many jazz festivals, People’s Artist of Russia, became the chief conductor. In November 2003 the orchestra had a China Tour — musicians performed in the largest cities of the Heavenly Empire with the historic clos-ing concert in the famous “Paramount”, in the very hall where the orchestra with young Oleg Lundstrem had be-gun its brilliant career.

It is remarkable that many famous musicians: A. Zubov, G. Golstein, K. No-

The orchestra became a hit and the newspapers called Oleg Lundstrem “the King of Jazz of the Far East”.

In 1947 the orchestra with their families arrived in the USSR.

Oleg Lundstrem

Шанхай, 1937 г. Олег Лундстрем — в центре

Boris Frumkin was born in 1944 in the family of a famous musician Michael Frumkin. He began studying the piano at the age of five. He received an excellent classical music education, but he was more attracted by jazz. In 1966 he was in-vited to one of the best big bands of the USSR — Concert Orchestra of Radio and Television conducted by Vadim Lyudvikovsky. Awards of several jazz festivals of the country and abroad made him famous.Further musical career of Boris Frumkin is associated with the legendary band «Melody», where he started as a pianist and arranger, and then in 1982 be-came its artistic director and conductor. The ensemble recorded about 200 re-cords and music to hundreds of popular cartoons and films. In late 80’s Boris Frumkin and his ensemble participated in the first joint Soviet-American produc-tion of the musical «Sophisticated Ladies» to the music of Duke Ellington. It is worth noting that B. Frumkin played for Ellington during maestro’s tour in the USSR and was praised by the legendary musician.Boris Frumkin is an Honoured Artist of Russia and a member of the Russian Union of Composers. Since April 2007 he is the artistic director and chief conductor of Oleg Lundstrem State Chamber Orchestra of Jazz Music.

Boris FrumkinArtistic director of Oleg Lundstrem State Chamber Orchestra of Jazz Music

sov, A. Fisher, A. Shabashov, V. Nazarov, V. Sadykov, V. Kiselyov, I. Boutman as well as vocalists M. Kristallinskaya, A. Pugachova, I. Ponarovskaya, I. Otiyeva to name but a few began their career at the Lundstrem orchestra.

In the course of years the big band has toured in more than 300 cities of our vast country and dozens of the cities abroad. It has given more than 10 000 concerts with hundreds thousands of spectators and millions of listeners on radio and TV. The orchestra has recorded a great number of CDs together with the recording studio “Melody”.

Oleg Lundstrem Orchestra partici-pated in such big international jazz festivals as: “Tallin-67”, “Jazz Jambo-ree-72” in Warsaw, “Prague-86”, “So-fia-86”, “Jazz in Duketown-88” in Neth-

erlands, “Grenouble-90” in France, the Festival in Memory of Ellington in Washington, USA (1991), the Interna-tional Jazz Festival of Big Bands in Santa-Barbara (USA, 1998). The big band is a constant representative of Russian culture abroad — in Ukraine, Germany, Moldova, Latvia, Georgia, Switzerland, Cyprus, India etc.

In 2007 a unique pianist, honoured artist of Russia, Boris Frumkin took the position of the artistic director of the orchestra. He is a composer of music for films, TV and drama shows. And he prepares new original pro-grams for the big band.

The orchestra’s credo is a harmo-nious combination of jazz traditions and new creative contribution to this beautiful Art. And with the years pass-ing by the State Chamber Orchestra of Jazz Music named after Oleg Lund-strem keeps writing its history.

It is the most “Long Playing” big band in the world. This fact is recorded in the Russian Ginnes Book of Records.

Anna Buturlina is one of the most popular Russian jazz singers. She was the first woman to appear on the cover of the “Jazz.Ru” magazine. In addition to Anna’s solo jazz projects in famous Moscow clubs and at major concert venues across the country, she works with the Russian State Symphony Cinema Orchestra conducted by Sergei Skripka and with big bands in different cities of Russia. Anna also cooperates with “Disney”, participates in creative projects of composer Gennady Gladkov, make voice-part records for films.She is a graduate of the Gnessin Russian Academy of Music. She had made her debut in one of the best jazz orchestras in the country, the “MKS Big Band” of Anatoly Kroll at the age of 19; the next step was to work with the Oleg Lunds-trem Jazz Orchestra along with the leaders of the Russian jazz, such as George Garanian, Daniel Kramer, Igor Butman and others. She is currently a soloist of “Orpheus” Big Band. In 2002, she performed one of the two main female roles in the “Dracula” musical and recorded a solo CD «BLACK COFFEE». Her next solo CD «MY FAVORITE SONGS» came out in 2006.In summer 2008, became the winner of the international competition of jazz vocalists «LADY SUMMERTIME» in Finland, Kajaani. In 2009 she voiced the title role of Tiana in the Russian version of the Disney animated film “The Princess and the Frog” (2009). In 2010 she became the winner of the International competition of jazz vocalists «Jazz Voices» in Lithua-nia, Klaipėda (2010). In January 2013 she released her new original program “JAZZ FOCUS: songs of Soviet films,” in which Anna performs most famous works by Russian composers of the 20th century in her own jazz arrangements and voiced Princess Elsa in the Russian version of the Disney animated film “Frozen”.She is a jazz singer, music arranger, actress.

Anna ButurlinaAlexander Panayotov is a singer with a unique voice, a master of vocal improvisation, a talented composer and musician, a finalist of the project “People’s Artist.” Musical genres — pop, lounge, soul, jazz, funk, R’n’B.In 2003 Alexander Panaiotov tried his luck in a TV contest -reality show ““People’s Artist”, which took place on TV channel “Russia”, in which he won the Second Prize and signed a seven-year contract with the producers Eugene Fridlyand and Kim Breitburg. While cooperating with FBI Music he successfully worked, toured and developed as an artist. He has recorded two music albums: “Lady of Rain” (2006, “Rodina Records”) and “Formula of Love” (2010, Studio “Dialogue”). Such songs as “One of a kind”, “Lady of Rain”, “Moon Melody”, “”Balallayka”, “Formula of Love”, “Snow”, ”On the edge” have become his signature songs.In March 2011 the contract expired and the artist continued his career on his own.In December 2013 his new album “Alpha and Omega” came out to be also released in I-tunes. Alexander is the creator of music for all the songs of the new album.Alexander’s solo concert took place in July 2014 at the concert hall “Mir”. The concert, dedicated to the 11th anniversary of his creative career, was a great success. Twenty five musicians accompanied the singer. Video installations, colourful show, the public’s favorite hits in original arrangements for the orchestra, songs from the new album and special guests — friends and colleagues of the singer- made the concert unforgettable.Brilliant performing skills, rich voice, extraordinary artistry, variety of images created by this artist accompany his every show and are enthusiastically received by the public. The voice of this young singer, who has already conquered many hearts, is considered to be one of the best pop-voices of Russia. His name is  a mark of a high quality music.

Alexander Panayotov

Deborah Brown was born in Kansas City, Missouri. She is an outstanding jazz vocalist. Her musical talent has propelled her from coast to coast in the USA, eventually leading her to Japan, Indonesia and the Far East and culminating in a 12 year residency in Europe. Performing in nightclubs, concerts, jazz festivals, on television and radio soundstages, Deborah has made a name for herself with appearances in more than 50 countries around the world.Deborah Brown has recorded 11 albums as a leader and has been featured on numerous other recordings as a special guest soloist. She has enjoyed participating in and creating many unique musical situations, among which are a duet recording with trombonist Slide Hampton, a concert tour in duo with piano master Roger Kellaway, duo performances with pianists Cedar Walton and Dorothy Donegan, a performance of “My One and Only Love” with trumpet star Clark Terry, a CD studio recording of “A Lover’s Question” with author James Baldwin. Tours with her quartet JAZZ 4 JAZZ that featured many outstanding musicians and many, many others.As a featured vocalist she has worked with Russia’s Oleg Lundstrem Jazz Orchestra, the Sandviken Bigband from Sweden and Kluver’s Bigband from Denmark and recorded the Dutch television special production for UNICEF with Audrey Hepburn and Roger Moore.Deborah Brown continues to promote the art of jazz by performing and recording her interpretations of classic standards and fresh original compositions, always expanding the musical boundaries of vocalist, musician, entertainer  and band leader.

Deborah Brown

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