Jazz musician Alexei Kozlov will be buried on September 29 in Moscow
The farewell ceremony with the People’s Artist of Russia, jazz composer and saxophonist Alexei Kozlov will be held on September 29 at the Troekurovsky cemetery in Moscow. The funeral will take place there, Kommersant was told by the press service of the Alexei Kozlov Club.
The farewell ceremony with the People’s Artist of Russia, jazz composer and saxophonist Alexei Kozlov will be held on September 29 at the Troekurovsky cemetery in Moscow. The funeral will take place there, Kommersant was told by the press service of the Alexei Kozlov Club.
Alexey Kozlov died on September 25. He was 90 years old. On the day of farewell, all concerts in the Kozlov jazz club will be canceled, and those who bought tickets will be refunded.
Alexey Kozlov’s musical career began in the early 1960s. At the same time, he participated in the creation of the first jazz cafe in the USSR “Youth” on Gorky Street in Moscow. In 1973 he created the country's first jazz-rock ensemble "Arsenal", which became a staff collective of the Kaliningrad Regional Philharmonic in 1976.
Alexey Kozlov composed about 100 jazz compositions, including “Ivory Tower” (1976), “Ragtime” (1978) and “The Stranger” (1982). He has written several books: Rock Music. Origins and Development (1989), Goat on a Saxon (1998), Jazz, Rock and Copper Trumpets (2005), Rock through the Eyes of a Jazzman (2008).
About the life of Alexei Kozlov - in the material "The Architect of Jazz".
