ALEXANDER TSFASMAN
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Tsfasman was born in 1906 in Zaporizhia (Ukraine) and discovered jazz in the 20′s in Moscow, where he was studying at the Music Conservatory. In 1926, he launched the first professional jazz band of the USSR, called the “AMA Jazz Band”. The ensemble included a trumpet, a trombon, a drum, a banjo, a clarinet and a sax, with Tsfasman on the piano. The AMA Jazz Band was the first orchestra in the country to perform live on the radio, in 1927, and to publish a record, in 1928. This record consisted of two tracks, Harry Warren‘s “Seminola” and Vincent Youmans‘s “Hallelujah!”.
During the next two decades, Alexander Tsfasman was quite prolific and recorded around 140 records . His works include popular musics like foxtrot, tango, waltz, polka and rumba, as well as several pieces for classical orchestra. In addition to his activities with his band, Tsfasman also gave regular solo
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