ЮРИЙ ЧЕРНАВСКИЙ (Москва 2018). | Red Bull Music Academy

Click CC for English subtitles. Famed Russian composer and producer Yury Chernavsky discusses his early years on the Russian jazz circuit, discovering production and electronics and creating new music behind the Iron Curtain. #RBMA TOPICS: 4:14 - Early years as a jazz musician and orchestra member 10:28 - Muslim Magomayev and experimentation in the Russian jazz world 25:53 - The end of the jazz era and moving into production 39:28 - Electronic experimentation and Banana Islands When Yury Chernavsky began work as a music producer in late ’70s USSR, there was little around him to draw inspiration from and so he looked to the advances and innovations happening in the West. His career began in the late ’60s as a jazz musician, playing the violin and saxophone as a member of various orchestras, including ensembles led by Russian jazz stars Oleg Lundstrem and Leonid Utyosov as well as Muslim Magomayev’s State Jazz Orchestra of Azerbaijan. Inspired by Coltrane, Count Basie and