Viatcheslav Nazarov

Vyacheslav Sergeyevich Nazarov (Russian Вячеслав Сергеевич Назаров, English transcription: Vyatcheslav Sergeyevich Nazarov; born June 3, 1952 in Ufa, † January 2, 1996 in Denver) was a Russian jazz trombonist and singer.

Nazarov visited the military music school and music school in Ufa and began to play in Soviet jazz bands with sixteen years. In 1977 he played in the band Kadans of German Lukyanov and 1983 he was a soloist in the orchestra Oleg Lundstrem. In 1989 he was in the ensemble Allegro by Nikolai Lewinowski and in his own bands. He played alongside his main instrument and piano.

Under his own name he took in 1985 live in his trio in 1987 with his quartet from the Leningrad Jazz Festival and with the common quintet with tenor saxophonist Vyacheslav Preobrazhensky ( Viatcheslav Preobrazhensky ) (at Melodia 1990) and with the orchestra Oleg Lundstrem, with Lewinowski and the bands Kadans and Allegro. In the Soviet Union he was regarded in the 1980s as a leading jazz trombonists.

In 1990 he went to the USA, where he played in New York and Denver, among other modern jazz musicians like Lew Tabackin, Benny Golson and the exchanged already in the 1970s in the USA Valery Ponomarev, but also in the context of mainstream and traditional jazz musicians such as Carl Fontana. In 1995 he played the JVC Jazz Festival at Avery Fisher Hall in New York. He settled in Denver and died on the return of gigs in New York and Connecticut over the Christmas holidays in a car accident.