Blurb:

The first ‘jazz’ in Russia; Between the wars: the changing political climate; The nine-year gap: ‘saxophone straightening’; Ady (Eddie) Rosner; Oleg Lundstrem; A new era?; Voice of America and the rebirth of Russian jazz; The story of a post-war Soviet jazz
musician: Andrei Tovmasyan; The 1960s; The 1970s; The Little Ice Age; The 1980s: the Ganelin Trio and the avant-gardists; The 1980s: jazz at the cinema and ethno-fusion; The 1990s and the end of the Soviet Union; Hope for the future; Listening guide; Bibliography; Filmography;