Vyacheslav Sergeyevich Nazarov

Vyacheslav Sergeyevich Nazarov ( Russian Вячеслав Сергеевич Назаров ; English transcription: Vyatcheslav Sergeyevich Nazarov ; born June 3, 1952 in Ufa ; † January 2, 1996 in Denver ) was a Russian jazz trombonist and singer.

Vyacheslav Nazarov

Nazarov attended the military music school and music school in Ufa and began playing in Soviet jazz bands when he was sixteen. In 1977 he played in the band Kadans of German Lukyanov and 1983 he was a soloist in the orchestra Oleg Lundstrem . In 1989 he was in the ensemble Allegro by Nikolai Lewinowski and own bands. In addition to his main instrument, he also played the piano.

Under his own name he recorded live in 1985 with his trio and in 1987 with his quartet from the Leningrad Jazz Festival and with the common quintet with tenor saxophonist Vyacheslav Preobrazhensky (Viatcheslav Preobrazhensky) (with Melodia 1990) as well as with the orchestra Oleg Lundstrem, with Lewinowski and the Bands Kadans and Allegro. In the Soviet Union he was considered one of the leading jazz trombonists in the 1980s.

In 1990 he went to the USA, where he played in New York and Denver, among others with modern jazz musicians such as Lew Tabackin , Benny Golson and Valery Ponomarev , who moved to the USA in the 1970s , but also in connection with mainstream and traditional jazz Musicians like Carl Fontana . In 1995 he played at the JVC Jazz Festival at Avery Fisher Hall in New York. He settled in Denver and died in a car accident returning from performing in New York and Connecticut over the Christmas holidays.

Web links

• Trombone Page of the World

Individual evidence

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