Word: dzhaz
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...years ago began relaxing the ban against Dixieland and swing. As a result, such dated numbers as When the Saints Go Marchin In and Sixteen Tons are now popular in Russia. Yet the Soviet music masters could not bring themselves to permit Russian musicians to play kholodny or cool dzhaz-the progressive sound of Thelonious Monk and Stan Getz, much admired by many Russians who hear it on the Voice of America or on smuggled records...
...stolid Soviet government got into the act. It formed a 43-piece U.S.S.R. Jazz Band, released top Trumpeter Andrei Gorin from prison (his crime: insulting a Communist Party official), ordered him onto the bandstand. Then, as abruptly as it began, the jazz era died. The downbeater: Stalin, who ordered dzhaz outlawed in 1929 as ''a product of bourgeois degeneration...
...simple, easy-to-hum melodies flow constantly out of Russian radios. In restaurants and cabarets, couples sway nightly to such Sedoi hits as Nightingale, It's Long Since We've Been Home. More important yet, Songwriter Sedoi manages to please Russia's culture cops, who regard dzhaz as "vulgar musical stew." This year, Sedoi won his second Stalin prize...
...subject of Russian "dzhaz" [TIME, Sept. 2], I find myself quite in accordance with the bitter denunciation of Izvestia. I have obtained a Soviet recording made by this Rozner and the State Jazz Orchestra of White Russia. It is a mercilessly amputated version of the traditional Russian Christmas music. It conflicts with all reason that the government of any country could permit such an atrocity
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