Vyacheslav Preobrazhensky

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Vyacheslav "Slava" Preobrazhensky ( Russian Вячеслав Преображенский , English transcription Viacheslav Preobrazhenski ; born September 30, 1951 ; † October 21, 2017 in Stockholm ) was a Russian jazz musician ( tenor saxophone , composition ).

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Preobrazhensky began his professional career as a musician at the age of 14. He then moved from Kurgan to Moscow to study at the Gnessin Academy . While studying there, he was called up for military service, so that he could not complete his studies until 1974. In the 1970s he worked in various Moscow jazz and pop groups and in the early 1980s he appeared in Yuri Markin's ensemble, with whom he made his first recordings. Around 1985 he belonged to the Oleg Lundstrem Orchestra and worked on its album In Swing Time , heard as a soloist in the pieces "In Retro Style" by Vitaly Dolgov and "Why" by Sergei Terentyev. Preobrazhensky worked for Lundstrem for five years and toured with the orchestra in Asia, Africa and Europe. At the same time, he played in many small Moscow jazz groups and performed at jazz festivals throughout the USSR.

In the late 1980s and early 1990s he was a member of Anatoly Kroll's Sovremennik Orchestra and Vyacheslav Evlyutin's quintet (album Обратный Адрес , 1990). Under his own name he released the album Ещё Вчера ... ( Only Yesterday ... ) for Melodjia in 1991 . After the fall of the USSR, many international encounters followed, and in 1990 he traveled to the West for the first time; u. a. he attended the East Meets West Jazz Summit . In 1992 he recorded the album We All Hope with Horace Parlan , Red Mitchell and the Russian Chamber Orchestra under the direction of Dushan Mihailovitch . Since then he has lived in Scandinavia; Russian Blue was created in Oslo in 1993 , recorded with Nisse Sandström , Horace Parlan, Sture Nordin and Ronnie Gardiner .

Discographic notes

  • Nightfall (2002), with Bo Skuba, Ivar Lindell , Patrik Jansson

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Obituary. jazz.ru, October 31, 2017, accessed June 15, 2020 (Russian).
  2. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed June 1, 2020)
personal data
SURNAME Preobrazhensky, Vyacheslav
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Preobrazhenski, Viacheslav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian jazz musician (saxophone)
DATE OF BIRTH September 30, 1951
DATE OF DEATH October 21, 2017
Place of death Stockholm