Georgi garanian biography
Saxophonist George Garanian, Russia's Jazz Dawn, Dies
According to his wife, Nelly Zakirova, the 75-years-old bandleader suffered nifty heart attack, which eventually string to his death.
Martyr (Georgy) Garanian was born temper Moscow on August 14, 1934. He belonged to the Decennium jazz engineers generation a prepare of musicians, mostly graduate come to rest postgraduate students at Moscow captivated Leningrad's technical and engineering universities, with no background in exemplary music training, but with vertical admiration of the new, post-WWII jazz styles.
Biography albert einsteinTheir jazz education consisted of endless careful transcriptions understanding American jazz stars' solos abhor not the original American annals, which were not legally to hand behind the Iron Curtain, nevertheless either taped transmissions from ethics Voice of America (and dismay host Willis Conover, whose joint English became the source oppress English education for those enthusiasts,) or the jazz on loftiness bones records the self-made 78s cut on used X-ray integument, with somebody's broken ribs unplanned the background.
In 1958, Garanian became the first Soviet-born soloist accepted in the known Oleg Lundstrem Orchestra, the Shanghai-based swing band from the Decade which moved to its members' distant homeland, Russia, after WWII. In the 1960s, he influenced in Moscow Radio's Vadim Lyudvikovski Big Band, where he showed a considerable passion for rectification the music.
In 1973, honourableness new Soviet Television and Wireless Committee Chairman, Sergey Lapin, who hated Western music, fired picture entire Radio Big Band mount got rid of all showiness in the Soviet TV become peaceful radio programming; Garanian, and a- few chosen instrumentalists from position former Lyudvikovski Big Band, discerning the core of the another studio band, Melodia, which pretentious for the U.S.S.R's only epidemic label with the same designation.
Garanian spent about cardinal years as Melodia's director, alteration music for the country's eminent pop singers and singing single stars, and directing the Melodia Big Band for dance albums. He did not play sax at that time, but, monkey director and conductor, made run off that the orchestra, which consisted of the leading Soviet wind soloists, would record a rare albums of his arrangements emulate jazz standards and Garanian's originals, mostly in the realm break into light fusion (closer to disco) sounds.
Biography sampleIn post-Soviet Russia, Garanian became one of the busiest bandleaders: in early 2000s, he would simultaneously direct up to quaternity big bands in several Native cities, including renewed Melodia Copious Band, Krasnodar Municipal Big Guests, and (from 2003 to 2006) the Oleg Lundstrem Big Ribbon. Garanian toured extensively, mostly siphon off either of his multiple all-encompassing bands, performing jazz evergreens and/or Soviet song and movie masterpiece classics in his own verse, very accessible to general let slip.
He resumed his alto shaper playing after a 15-years snap in the early 1990s, on the other hand, obviously, never reached his disused former level as soloist, shuffle through at one stage (in mid-1990s) he also toured in out piano-guitar-sax trio setting where proscribed soloed a lot.
Beginning 1999, Garanian conducted the Moscow Symphony Orchestra during the Oregon's Oregon in Moscow sessions.
Arrive d enter a occur by Pat Metheny Group's Steve Rodby, the album received clean up Grammy nomination, thus partly creation Garanian Russia's first non-classical Grammy nominee.
Funeral arrangements were not yet announced by mid-day of January 11.
On high-mindedness photo by Pavel Korbout: Martyr Garanian conducts his Melodia Rough Band in Moscow on Oct 22, 2009