Jazz in Russia: 95 years of history. A Lecture by Cyril Moshkow

Cyril Moshkow is a music journalist, publisher, editor-in-chief of “Jazz.Ru” magazine, author of several books, including The Jazz Industry in America and The Blues. Introduction to the History, and the editor of two two-volume anthologies Jazz Greats and Russian Jazz. He is currently working on the book Black Music: Roots and Branches. He previously played bass guitar in a rock band, participated in the creation of the first rock program on Soviet Central Television, had twenty-five hours per week of air time on the last pirate radio station in Moscow, wrote and published fiction novels, attended jazz festivals, clubs, music schools, jazz archives and professional musicological conferences in twenty-two countries (twenty-four, counting unrecognized states), yet still continues to consider the study of music the meaning of his life.