Oleg Lundstrem
Oleg Leonidovich Lundstrem (also Lundström; Russian Олег Леонидович Лундстрем; born April 2, 1916 in Chita, † October 14, 2005 in Moscow) was a Russian jazz musician and orchestra leader.
Life
Lundstrem was the first son of a teacher who with his family moved to Harbin in Manchuria in 1921, to teach there as an employee of the Chinese Railway Company physics, first in a middle school, then at the Polytechnic Institute. Oleg Lundstrem ended there in 1931, the business school and then studied in parallel at the Polytechnic Institute and the Academy of Music. In 1935, he graduated from the latter in the violin.
In the years his music studies at the beginning of the 30s he learned and his fellow students know jazz of Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong and began on local music events to occur. Lundstrem experimented with big band arrangements. In 1934 he founded together with his friends, an eight-member jazz band, which soon moved from Harbin to Shanghai, where he held performances in hotels and the famous dance club Majestic. Lundstrem began to arrange Russian pieces in jazz style and had great success with it. Soon, some of the band members as the best musicians in the city were considered ( " The King of Jazz in the Far East ").
The orchestra Lundstrem, a big band without stringed instruments, was the first of its kind, which brought to the performance of the orchestra in the Soviet Union real jazz. Oleg Lundstrems was included in the Guinness Book of Records because he has more than 65 years led his orchestra and conducted. Oleg Lundstrem was awarded a special certificate of UNESCO for his contributions to the world art. In 1993 he received an honorary doctorate from the akademio Internacia de la Sciencoj (AIS, International Academy of Sciences) San Marino.
The article " Red Hot With a Blue Note " about Oleg Lundstrem by Kim Murphy was one of the reasons for awarding the Pulitzer Prize in 2005 in the category International Reporting, Kim Murphy.
Works
To Lundstrems early works include a symphony, a cello sonata and one suite, all in Tatar style. Later he turned to the big-band jazz, which he ( орнамент Бухарский, 1972) in works such as Mirage ( Мираж, 1947), Bukhara ornament, and in the Georgian mountains ( W górach Grusii, В горах Грузии, 1973) seeks was to find a national style. In 1986, he released a greatest hits album of his own compositions.
Selection:
- Экспромт ( Impromptu ), 1945
- Мираж ( Mirage ), 1947
- Хоровод ( Chorowod )
- Памяти мастеров джаза ( Memories of the masters of jazz ), 1977, In memory of Duke Ellington
- В сочных тонах ( In a Mellotone ), 1982
- В наше время (in our time )
- Музыка, любовь моя ( Music is my love ), 1984 with Irina Otieva
- В стиле свинг ( In Swing time ), 1986
- Мы снова вместе (We again together ), 1986
- Интерлюдия (Interlude ), 1945
- Мираж ( Mirage ), 1947
- Расцветает сирень ( Lilac blossoms ), 1955
- Экспромт ( Атом - буги ) ( Impromptu ( atoi Bugis ) ), 1957
- Юмореска ( Humoreska ), 1958
- Песня без слов (Song without words ), 1960
- Этюд для оркестра ( Etude for at orchestra ), 1960
- Пролог ( Prologue ), 1963
- Мы снова вместе (We again together ), 1969
- Бухарский орнамент ( Bukhara ornament ), 1972
- В горах Грузии (in mountains of Georgia ), 1973
- Любви дороги ( Love of road ), 1975
- Спидвей ( Speedway ), 1980
- Легенда о Сююмбеки ( Legend about Sjujumbeki ), 1981
- Наступил рассвет ( Dawn began ), 1984