Anatoly Oscherowitsch Kroll
Anatoli Oscherowitsch Kroll ( Russian Анатолий Ошерович Кролл , English transcription Anatoly Kroll ; born April 20, 1943 in Chelyabinsk ) is a Russian pianist , arranger, bandleader and composer of jazz and popular music .
Live and act
From 1956 to 1959 he studied piano at the Tschaikowski Music School in Chelyabinsk. As early as 1959 he led small bands for light music in the Chelyabinsk Philharmonic. In 1960 he became the musical director of the Uzbekistan entertainment orchestra (at the age of only 17 the youngest conductor in the Soviet Union at the time), which accompanied and recorded with popular singers there.
In 1963 he founded his Tula jazz band, which included tenor saxophonist Alexander Pishchikov , bassist Sergei Martynow, drummers Yuri Genbatschow and Ivan Yurchenko, trombonists Arkady Schabaschow and Viktor Budarin, trumpeter Viktor Gusseinow, and alto saxophonist Roman Kunsman . He accompanied a number of vocalists, including Valentina Ponomarjowa and Vladimir Makarow. With him he performed at the Jazz Festival in Tallinn in 1967 and both the quartet and Pishchikov and Kroll received awards as best saxophonists and pianists, respectively.
In 1971 he took over the collapsing Big Band from Eddie Rosner and led it from then on as an orchestra for contemporary light music and a jazz big band for special occasions (festivals). With this formation he toured in Eastern Europe, Germany, France and India. With her he recorded many records and accompanied the singer Larissa Dolina , among others . In 1991 he became musical director of the Temp music theater in Moscow. Among other things, he accompanied the Swetlana Portnjanski Orchestra on a US tour. In 1992 he put together a big band with Moscow musicians (ISS Big Band), which also performed at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1994 . She then played in France and Switzerland and in the 1990s often at jazz festivals in Russia and in various places in the former Soviet Union (Moscow, Sochi, Minsk, Samara, Orenburg, Siberia, Kazan, etc.), on television and radio.
He wrote music for many films, especially by Karen Shachnasarow , for example for Wir sind vom Jazz (1984) about a music student who is expelled from the conservatory for playing jazz music.
In 1989 he became an Honored Artist of Russia and in 1998 People's Artist of Russia .
Filmography
- 1985: Winter evening in Gagra (Зимний вечер в Гаграх)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ We are from Jazz in the Internet Movie Database (English)
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Kroll, Anatoly Oscherowitsch |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kroll, Anatoly; Кролл, Анатолий Ошерович (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian pianist, arranger, band leader and composer of jazz and popular music |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 20, 1943 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Chelyabinsk |