Vladimir Chekasin

b. 24 Feb 1947, Sverdlovsk, Russia. Through the 90s Chekasin was the most respectable saxophonist in the previous Soviet Union, his design a mixture of the past due Rahsaan Roland Kirk’s high-pressure hard bop (Chekasin often plays several horns simultaneously), 60s NY free-jazz tenor and crazy Peter Brötzmann -like howls, blended with significant amounts of onstage clowning and theatricality. A composer and key pad player and a saxophonist, Chekasin was originally a violinist (he required it up at age six), after that shifted to clarinet and alto saxophone, starting to business lead jazz rings around 1967. He graduated from your M.P. Mussorgsky University or college in Sverdlovsk like a clarinettist and relocated to Vilnius in 1971, conference two classical music artists with extra-curricular jazz enthusiasms in the pianist Vyacheslav Ganelin as well as the percussionist Vladimir Tarasov, with whom he worked well and recorded frequently within the next 15 roughly years. Also in 1971 Chekasin received first prize inside a jazz competition in Prague and produced his 1st record. He later on taught in the Lithuanian Condition Conservatory in Vilnius, developing a big music group with his college students there in 1982, and consequently led a number of little organizations and big rings of his personal. A few of these line-ups could be heard within the eight-CD compilation Record: SONGS From Russia as well as the four-CD arranged Conspiracy: Soviet Jazz Event, Zurich 1989. Using the Ganelin Trio Chekasin toured the united kingdom in 1984 and USA in 1986. He’s as more likely to quotation Xenakis or Lutoslawski among his affects as Ben Webster, and continues to be being among the most enthusiastic and inventive of modern jazz performers in the Republics.