Jazz Articles about Ganelin Trio

The Ganelin Trio: Creative Tensions

by Duncan Heining
October 19, 2016

Imagine a time, not so very long ago, when a foreign Jazz/Improvising Trio created such a stir in Britain that they made the TV news! Imagine the national newspapers queuing round the block for interviews. And imagine London's Bloomsbury Theatre filled with musicians, journalists and arts administrators--not to mention the odd, very odd, raincoated spook. That noise was the Ganelin Trio in 1984 on their first visit to these shores, from Russia with love. All that noise left ...

Ganelin Trio Priority: Live in Lugano 2006

by Marc Medwin
August 10, 2007

There's nothing like hearing a group in concert to reawaken interest. The Ganelin Trio Priority played a staggering set on the penultimate evening of the June, 2007 Vision Festival, a continuous and constantly morphing shock-and-awe campaign in which all national and international demarcations were obliterated.

Slava Ganelin himself, the founder and only original member of the fabled Soviet improvising trio, began the proceedings with a piano solo that was authoritative and moving, hovering somewhere between homage and prayer as it ...

Ganelin Trio Priority: Live at the Lithuanian National Philharmony Vilnius 2005

by Andrey Henkin
June 2, 2007

Ganelin Trio Priority Live at the Lithuanian National Philharmony Vilnius 2005 Nemu Records 2007

Pianist Vyacheslav Ganelin is arguably Soviet Russia's most significant improvising export. Of course, the unreceptive atmosphere during the early part of his career made renown in his native Lithuania untenable, but fans of international free jazz are very much familiar with his long- standing trio. This DVD, the first such release by the new-ish Euro-jazz label ...

The Ganelin Trio: 15 Year Reunion: Live At The Frankfurt Book Fair

by Dave Wayne
February 6, 2004

The Ganelin Trio reunion is cause for celebration. Coming from the USSR—a country that attempted to ban the saxophone after World War II—the group caused quite a stir back in the early ‘80s. Some may remember the cloak-and-dagger tales: the master tapes for their first commercially-issued recordings available outside the USSR were literally smuggled out of the Eastern Bloc, arriving in anonymous packages at the door of Leo Feigin, the operator of Leo Records.

Whatever the smugglers endured, it was ...