Russian jazz ensemble banned from performing ‘American’ music.
By Alexey Eremenko
The St. Petersburg Times
Published: September 10, 2014 (Issue # 1828)
In Soviet times, jazz music was distrusted and reviled as a subversive means of American influence, and it looks like the distrust of the century-old genre still lingers in the corridors of Russian power.
A state culture watchdog banned a Russian jazz band from playing at a book fair in Hungary because of the style of music they play, musician Naum “Dry Ice” Bleek said on his Facebook page.
“The Federal Mass Media Inspection Service was wary about jazz accompaniment…it being American music,” Bleek cited an unnamed organizer on the Russian side as saying.
“I know it sounds insane, but you’ve got to defer to them,” the organizer was cited by Bleek on Monday as saying.
The musicians were asked to play something Russian instead, but declined, Bleek said.
Bleek was tentatively booked to perform with the Denis Galushko Trio as a part of the Russian program at the Gaudeamus Book Fair in Budapest in November.
The Yekaterinburg-based rapper delivers his own verse alongside famous Russian poetry, such as that of Alexander Pushkin and Vladimir Mayakovsky, against a backdrop of jazz.
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