Leonid chizhik biography of barack

By , when the pianist Leonid Chizhik became the first jazz musician to make a living through jazz, the rock invasion was in full force..

Over many years, Chizhik had legitimised the performance of jazz in concert halls in the USSR, recorded for.

As he played, Leonid Chizhik—for that was the musician at the piano—was, for that brief period of time, flying high above Soviet repression.

By , when the pianist Leonid Chizhik became the first jazz musician to make a living through jazz, the rock invasion was in full force.

Leonid Chizhik.

Biography

"Start with a solid base of swing, add a heap of technique, spice it with a dash of romantic spirit, blend together with free creative abandon, and you get Leonid Chizhik, master improviser and giant of Soviet jazz piano" (Keyboard - BD).

" Jazz is for me, a way of thinking, which allows the artist to react to the foreverchanging world. The world of sounds, the universe of music, unconstrained by the typical styles of jazz like swing, bebop, mainstream etc.

or classical music, folk, avantgarde, pop or rock - everything we hear around us, express the birth of a new unifying language, which allows me or other musicians to communicate with everyone. It is Jazz." (L.Chizhik)

At the beginning of the 70's, after his studies in the Gnessin-Institute in Moscow with Prof.

Theodor Gutman, Leonid Chizhik with his trio and also as a solo artist, succeeded in opening the most famous philarmonic concert halls in ther former Soviet Union to jazz. During the period of the Cold