Leningrad Dixieland

Leningrad Dixieland is one of the oldest Dixielands on the Eurasian continent .

Leningrad Dixieland
Genre	Traditional jazz , dixieland , swing
Years	c 1958
Country	the USSR Russia
City	Leningrad
Labels	Melody , SPb.JPH , Verve , Decca , Amiga , Blue note , Aura Co
Official site of the Leningrad Dixieland

It was created in 1958 by trumpeter Vsevolod Korolev and clarinet player Alexander Usyskin. The biography of Leningrad Dixieland is inextricably linked with such colorful musicians as Oleg Kuvaytsev, brothers Valentin and Alexander Kolpashnikov, Eduard Levin, Robert Pauser, brothers Boris and Grigory Lokshiny, Alexander Kavlelashvili, Yuri Akulov, Vladimir Gribov, Vladimir Yakovlev, Valery Zavarin, Georg Chikov, Vladimir Voronin and Yuri Miroshnichenko and others.

The credo of the Leningrad Dixieland is a combination of impeccable following tradition with the naturalness of the game. Since the 1960s, the ensemble has performed at international festivals. In the repertoire of the Leningrad Dixieland, dance music of the 1920-1950s.

For the entire period of the ensemble’s existence, and to this day, many well-known St. Petersburg musicians such as Vladimir Lytkin, Vladislav Pankevich, Julius Soul, Fedor Kuvaytsev, Konstantin Khazanovich , Konstantin Kuvaytsev, Yuri Snegurov, Grigory Voskoboinik, Alexander Beschastny, Sergey Efremov, Oleg Samorukov, Arkady Nikolaev, Mikhail Chekavy, Vladimir Tochilenko, Vadim Bogorad, Anatoly Alexandrov, Valery Petrov, Yuri Rudenko, Anna Zavorina, Alexander Skrypnik, Mikhail Loov, Vitaly Legostev, Anatoly Chimiris, Bori with Ershov and many others.