GANELIN TRIO/SLAVA GANELIN
Genres: Avant-Garde Jazz, Third Stream, Jazz Related Soundtracks • Lithuania

Jazz trio combining Russian soul with the influence of Sunny Murray, Albert Ayler, Art Ensemble of Chicago etc, formed in Vilnius, (then) Soviet Lithuania c 1971 by Vyacheslav Ganelin (b 17 December 1944, Kraskovo), piano, composer; also percussion, electric guitar etc; Vladimir Chekasin (b 24 February 1947, Sverdlovsk) on reeds, drummer Vladimir Tarasov (b 29 June 1947, Archangelsk), all multi-instrumentalists. Soviet jazz was (understandably) derivative until an avant-garde movement began '70s; the artists invent the structures and are not required to belong to a category, which is partly why jazz (or better, improvised music) has at last become an international language, as opposed to being completely dominated by Americans. Western audiences and critics often missed the point as far as the Ganelin Trio are concerned, but their music cannot be ignored (there was a short-lived East Wind label in the USA that performed a valuable service by issuing half a read more...