singing and his and his message but your music like maybe yours his music had did influence even elton john lennon song for guy it could have been one of the albums. that. the sound check arena oh yeah ok well jazz is not as popular in russia as it could be unfortunately some of the reasons are in a report by spotlight to me that. while the first jazz bands in the us a saw appeared as early as the nine hundred twenty s. the music was never quite accepted by the soviet regime it associated just with the capitalist lifestyle forgettin the music originated in poor african-american communities even in the later years of the us is so when jazz musicians were no longer persecuted they still found themselves on the periphery of mainstream soviet art. have to the collapse of the u.s. society jazz and russia hardly managed to get beyond that periphery well names like louis armstrong and duke ellington would certainly ring a bell with most russians who wouldn't perform is only known by a small number of devoted jazz fans and jazz had living gets unerring in russian t.v. radio stations mass media it is too p