The State Jazz Orchestra Of The USSR

The USSR State Jazz Band (or The State Jazz Orchestra of the USSR, russian: Государственный джаз-оркестр СССР) was a Soviet jazz band that existed in 1930s–1940s.

After it was auditioned by Joseph Stalin in 1938, a number of similar state-sponsored musical ensembles were created across the country.

Critical analysis

S. Frederick Starr comments in his book on the Soviet jazz that the band "played with a polish and precision any Western pop orchestra might have envied". But then he adds:

Boris Schwarz's book ''Music and Musical Life in Soviet Russia, 1917–1970'' describes The State Jazz Orchestra of the USSR as "essentially" a " 'light' music" (easy listening) orchestra.

Selected discography

* " Katyusha" (1939)

References

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Soviet jazz bands
Musical groups established in 1938
1938 establishments in the Soviet Union