Alexei Alexejewitsch Kuznetsov

Alexei Alexejewitsch Kuznetsov, 2018

Alexei Alexejewitsch Kuznetsov ( Russian Алексей Алексеевич Кузнецов ; born September 6, 1941 in Chelyabinsk ) is a Russian jazz guitarist , composer and arranger .

His father was also a jazz guitarist and was a member of the symphony orchestra of the All-Union Radio and Television (directed by Yuri Siljantjewa), where Alexei Kuznetsov began after studying at a Moscow music school. As a jazz musician, he drew attention to himself in a duo with the guitarist Nikolai Gromin in the 1960s. The connection lasted until the 1970s, after which he mainly played with his own bands and solo, offering a spectrum from "rousing, swinging bop improvisations to very modern experiments". He played with many important local jazz musicians in the Soviet Union, where he is very popular and was portrayed in a one-hour show on Russian national television in the 1980s, and with foreign musicians such as Duke Ellington , Dave Brubeck , Gary Burton , Steve Swallow , Pat Metheny , Herb Ellis , Toots Thielemans . He also recorded several albums under his own name.

He is also known as a teacher in Russia, wrote a textbook and published video films on jazz guitar.

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ Alexander Schmitz: The guitar in jazz. Supplementary considerations on JE Berendt's article. In: Guitar & Laute 5, 1983, Issue 1, pp. 82-84; here: p. 83 (quote).
↑ Podcast Russian Jazz

personal data
SURNAME	Kuznetsov, Alexei Alexejewitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Кузнецов, Алексей Алексеевич
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Russian jazz guitarist, composer and arranger
DATE OF BIRTH	September 6, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH	Chelyabinsk

[1] Alexander Schmitz: The guitar in jazz. Supplementary considerations on JE Berendt's article. In: Guitar & Laute 5, 1983, Issue 1, pp. 82-84; here: p. 83 (quote).

[2] Podcast Russian Jazz