Klaus Döring's Classical Music/Klaus Döring's Klassische Musik

by Georg Predota , Interlude Sam Wooding and his Chocolate Kiddies Just a couple of years after Western Europe fell under the spell of popular American musical styles, it also debuted in the Soviet Union. As a musical language increasingly placed at the service of social commentary, and with its strong connotations for freedom, jazz in the Soviet era led a somewhat tortured existence. Constantly in flux between prohibition, censorship and even state sponsorship, jazz developed into a popular form of music and it became an element of Soviet cultural life. The birth of Soviet jazz is celebrated on 1 October 1922 when Valentin Parnach and his band played their first concert in Moscow. Chocolate Kiddies poster Parnach came into contact with jazz at a concert of the American band  Louis Mitchel Jazz Kings  during his exile in Paris in 1921. He returned to Moscow a year later with a complete set of instruments. But what really got the jazz craze properly started were appearances of ...