Презентация - "Олег Лундстрем_- Великий джазмен Забайкалья"

Oleg Lundstrem is the great jazzman of Transbaikalia.
Vologdin Danil 11 A School №48

His childhood
Oleg Leonidovich Lundstrem was born in 1916 in Chita. Then, around 20’s, Lundsterm senior was invited to the Chinese border city Harbin. He received a classical education, then became interested in music, started attending events and concerts in nearby cities. When he was 12 years old, he was passionate about foxtrot, and so he wrote parts for a trio: melody, bass, accompaniment. That’s probably when his creative fate was decided. A creative hobby did not prevent Oleg from graduating from a commercial school. He entered the Harbin Polytechnic Institute. At the same time, he studied musical notation and studied to play violin. By the time Oleg returned to academic education and graduated from the Kazan State Conservatory in 1953, a mature man realized that it is necessary to have respect for music and creative work.

Dear Old Southland
The discovery of a record with a Duke Ellington’s melody became the starting line for Lundstrem as a jazzman. "Dear old Southland" impressed the young musician so much that he began to play melodies from records, It was in 1933 by the way. In a year Lundstrem created a jazz band. He himself played the piano and violin, and his brother Igor played saxophone solos. Just two years later, the musicians signed their first contract in Shanghai, despite the fact that there were already about 40 jazz bands in the city.

The jazz king of the Far East
In the 40s Oleg Lundstrem was on the peak of popularity. Lundstrem was called "the jazz king of the Far East". At the concert on the occasion of the end of Second World War, the orchestra performed a full big band, and Lundstrom wrote his first work "Interlude". After the success, he returned to the Soviet Union. While working at the cultural center in Kazan, Oleg gathered like-minded people and recorded instrumental compositions for programs that went on the radio. In the mid-50s, when one of their concerts was noticed in the capital, the jazz band was finally able to perform in Moscow.

«As for the credo of our orchestra, it has remained the same: we are faithful to jazz, we strive to make jazz an important component of a person's spiritual life.»

Oleg Lundstrem


The Lundstrem Orchestra toured more than 300 cities in different parts of the Soviet Union and abroad. The musicians made 10 records at the studio "Melody". In the 70s, Lundstrem met Duke Ellington when he came to Moscow. When the collective was 60, it was listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the world's oldest continuously existing jazz orchestra, and in 1998 the American Bibliographic Association named Oleg Lundstrem Person of the Year. In 2003, Lundstrom handed over the conductor’s baton to Georgy Garanyan. He passed away in 2005.
Maestro and his band

Lundstrem’s legacy
Discography
«In memory of Duke Ellington»
«Serenade of the sunny valley»
«In juicy tones»
«Heavenly patterns.
The Singing Sea»
«In swing style»
«In our time»