Instrumental Ensemble Rafik Babayev Jazz Composition Azerbaijan RARE SOVIET LP
$
60
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Description
Artist: INSTRUMENTAL ENSEMBLE RAFIK BABAYEV
Titel: Jazz compositions on the themes of Rauf Gajiev's Operettas
Format: LP
Label: Melodiya
Year: ? (most likely mid 70ties)
Pressing: original USSR
Condition Record: m-
Condition Sleeve: m-
Description:
Some of the best Jazz drum loops I've ever heard. A MUST not only for lovers of Jazz of the former Soviet republics :-)
Some of the compositions are praising the Socialist country of Cuba...
Listen to the Sound files!
An excerpt of the sleeve notes (in Russian, French and English):
"The INSTRUMENTAL ENSEMBLE led by RAFIK BABAYEV was set up in 1960. Its repertoire includes jazz compositions, which are free improvisations on the themes of Azerbaijan folk songs and works of Soviet and foreign composers.
People's Artist of the Azerbaijan SSR Rauf Gajiyev is among the most popular composers of the republic. Captivating melodies, modern musical idiom and vivid rhythms - such are the distinguishing features of the composer's work."
Tracks:
Sarabanda's Couplets, Delia's Aria, Song of Karmen and Jose, Song of Delia and Raoul, Raoul's Song: Cuba my Love, Advertisement Song, Joan and Jerry's Duet, The sad Song, The Song of the Young: The fourth Vertebra
Selected musicians:
Rafik Babayev- piano and leader
Mikhail Petrosov- percussion
Albert Khodja-Bagirov- double bass
Yuri Sardarov- guitar
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