We are from jazz

In 1926 , student of the Odessa Music College Kostya Ivanov carried away a new direction in music - jazz . For this hobby, he, a Komsomol member, is expelled from a technical school.

Kostya wants to create his own jazz band . According to the announcement, two friend-musicians, wandering artists - Styop Grushko and Zhora Ryabov come to him. Styopa plays the banjo and trumpet, and Zhora plays the violin and drums. Konstantin makes them interested in jazz, and the new jazz band begins rehearsals. The very first performance ends with a brawl with the audience, and Stepan makes a decision - they and Zhora leave. Kostya is desperate, but two “gentlemen” appear here, inviting jazz bands to play on the anniversary of the authoritative thief .

As a result of the performance on the anniversary, the musicians fall into the police cell. In the chamber, jazz players get to know Ivan Ivanovich Bavurin, who is necessary for a full-fledged jazz band as a saxophonist , as he previously played the saxophone in the Life Guards Preobrazhensky regiment .

Together with Ivan Ivanovich, the group sets off to conquer Moscow. But Moscow already has a very successful jazz ensemble. Konstantin is trying to attract the famous foreign jazz singer Clementina Fernandez to his team, but the event ends for the group with the loss of both the singer herself and the last money.

Konstantin is in despair. The drummer and saxophonist recalls that Konstantin mentioned a certain captain, a jazz theorist named Kolbasiev . And the idea arises that it would be nice if he expressed a positive opinion about Kostin’s work. But since it is difficult to find him, friends find a former sailor who agreed to play Kolbasyev. At the very last moment, the false Kolbasiev for some reason begins to rest. This causes a cheerful reaction from Bones, and he comes out of the spleen.

Heroes were sheltered by the head of the " Association of Proletarian Musicians ", a big fan of jazz. And when everything began to improve, jazz in Soviet Russia in 1928 was declared "illegal". But the real captain Kolbasiev was invited to the concert in advance ...

Many years later. Aged friends, now famous musicians, perform in front of a wide audience.

• Igor Sklyar - jazz musician Kostya Ivanov ( piano )
• Alexander Pankratov-Cherny - Stepan Arkadevich Grushko ( banjo , trumpet )
• Nikolay Averyushkin - George (Zhora) Ryabov ( violin , percussion )
• Peter Scherbakov - Ivan Ivanovich Bavurin ( saxophone )
• Evgeny Evstigneev - thief in law (Dad)
• Leonid Kuravlev - Samsonov, Head of the Association of Proletarian Musicians
• Borislav Brondukov - false - Sergey Adamovich Kolbasyev
• Elena Tsyplakova - Katya Bobrova, she is also a pop star Isabella Fox
• Larisa Dolina - Clementine Fernandez, Cuban singer
• Yuri Vasiliev - Orlov, head of the jazz orchestra

In episodes

• Vadim Alexandrov - rowdy, gray-haired offender "Khmyr", a bandit
• Vitaly Bobrov - the real captain Sergey Adamovich Kolbasyev
• Boris Gitin - member of the commission
• Yuri Gusev - rowdy mafiosi
• Nikolay Kochegarov - Samsonov’s Secretary
• Oleg Kazancheev - Bukin
• Peter Merkuryev - Egor
• Grigory Malikov - examiner
• Vladimir Picek - doorman
• Alexander Pyatkov - Yaryshkin, waiter
• Oleg Savosin - rowdy (“Ours are beaten!”)
• Peter Warehouse - rowdy "Khmyr"

• Screenplay - Alexander Borodyansky , Karen Shakhnazarov
• Production - Karen Shakhnazarov
• Director of photography - Vladimir Shevtsik
• Set Designer: Konstantin Forostenko
• Composer - Anatoly Kroll , Mark Minkov
• Sound producer - Inna Zelentsova
• Director - I. Kuznetsova
• Operator - V. Zakharchuk
• Variety Orchestra "Sovremennik" conducted by Anatoly Kroll

The film uses a lot of jazz music performed by the Sovremennik pop orchestra conducted by Anatoly Kroll (solo on the piano ) and archival records of the 1920s.

Songs by Mark Minkov “ Thank you, music ” and “ Old piano ” to the verses of Dmitry Ivanov ; Soloists: Olga Pirags , Igor Sklyar , Larisa Dolina , Vladimir Shevtsik .

• We are from jazz 2 (2013)

• “We Are From Jazz” in Cyril and Methodius Online Encyclopedia
• “We are from jazz” (Russian) in the Encyclopedia of Russian Cinema
• "We are from jazz" on the portal "Cinema of Russia"
• "We are from jazz" in the online movie theater "Mosfilm"
• " We Are From Jazz ” on the Internet Movie Database