Vladimir Nikolaevich Chekassin

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Vladimir Chekassin

Vladimir Nikolajewitsch Chekassin , also Vladimir Chekasin ( Russian Владимир Николаевич Чекасин ; born February 24, 1947 in Sverdlovsk ) is a Russian saxophonist , band leader and composer of avant-garde jazz . As a member of the first Ganelin Trio, he was one of the most prominent representatives of the Russian and Lithuanian jazz scene of the 1970s and 1980s.

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Chekassin was born in the former Sverdlovsk, today's Yekaterinburg . At six he learned violin and piano, at fifteen he learned the clarinet. In 1965 he graduated from a special music school, and in 1970 the Yekaterinburg Music Academy.

He attracted international attention with his appearance at the Prague "Praga 71" festival. As the first winner of a competition for young jazz instrumentalists in Prague, organized by the Czech Composers' Association, he was able to record an album for Supraphon ( VN Cekasin a Pratele ) in 1971 with an international line-up that included Rudolf Dašek and Klaus Koch .

In the same year there was a first encounter with Vyacheslav Ganelin and Vladimir Tarasov , who gave a concert in Sverdlovsk. From this a collaboration in the Ganelin Trio developed . In the early 1970s, Chekassin therefore moved to Vilnius . where he initially worked full-time in a brass band.

In addition to the saxophone and clarinet, Chekassin also played shepherd's and recorders, but also bassoon and bagpipes to bring additional timbres into play. He was a member of the Ganelin Trio until 1987 (when Ganelin emigrated to Israel ), but also appeared in the trio with Sergei Kurjochin and Boris Grebenschtschikow ("Exercises", 1982); In 1983 he founded his own quartet with the pianist Oleg Molokojenow , the bassist Leonid Tschinkarenko and the drummer Gediminas Laurinyavinchus , with which the 1983 album "Nostalgia" was created for Leo Records .

From 1994 he appeared regularly on one of the central Moscow theaters, where he also worked as a composer or producer of performances with actors and musicians from different countries. Since 1975 Chekassin has worked in addition to jazz for theater and film productions, such as in 1991 for the film “Taxi Blues” by Pawel Lungin , whose music won first prize at the Cannes film festival. From 1975 Chekassin also worked as a lecturer at the Lithuanian Music Academy and at the Balys Dvarionas Music School . He also wrote the textbook “Operative composition and structuring”.

In the USSR , Chekassin was considered one of the most respected jazz musicians and won numerous prizes. During his career, Chekassin recorded over 60 albums.

Selected discographic references

  • Ganelin Trio: Catalog: Live in East Germany (Leo1979 - LR 102)
  • Ganelin Trio: Ancora da Capo (Leo 1980 - LR 108)

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Notes / individual evidence

  1. ↑ Published in pedagogic congress matherials “Modern improvisation music and jazz” November 8-11, 1995, Mönchengladbach, Germany
personal data
SURNAME Chekassin, Vladimir Nikolayevich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Chekasin, Vladimir; Chekassin, Vladimir
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian saxophonist and band leader
DATE OF BIRTH February 24, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Sverdlovsk