Trombonist Anatoly Tchimiris is the band's "peace-breaker". It is the typical Petersburg tradition started by Edward Lewin. Each performance often consists of two stages, a proper, noble one is followed by Tchimiris's solo, which begins the second stage. Breaking the "peace" of first one. But that's jazz....more

All that jazz came right from Russia with love Wednesday night when the Leningrad Dixieland Jazz Band communicated with a southern Oregon audience in the universal languge: music...more

When Americans get the silent treatment, they figure, they're being turned off. However, when Russians give jazz reedman Oleg Kuvaitsev the same treatment, he knows they're turned on. The 42-year-old Russian alto player explained in English that was always precise if not always perfect that Russian audience show absolutely no emotion if they like what they hear, but when they whistle, that's another matter...more

Three rivers - jazz connoisseurs recieved a taste of traditional jazz with an international flavor this weekend. Playing to a rapt audience under a blue canopy, the Leningrad Dixieland jazz band wowed the crowd to a standing ovation with "It's a Wonderland". A singer with Frank Sinatra's overtones and Bruce Springsteen's vocal gruffness crooned the ballad with a Soviet accent. ...more

Leningrad's would-be Louies jam with local hot lips in Hopkinton Dixieland detente. So many extraordinary things happened routinely these days, we can begin to take even the wonderful for granted...more

Dixieland jazz with a Russian accent comes to Denver for the second time when the Leningrad Dixieland Jazz Band performs with the Queen City Jazz Band and Alan Frederickson at the Sheraton Lakewood on Friday, June 2, 8 p.m. to midnight. In 1987, the Leningrad DJB tour of the United States included appearances in Los Angeles, Sacramento, San Francisco, Denver, Philadelphia, Washington and a guest spot of Johnny Carson's Tonight Show...more info