Каданс - Kadans The Moscow Chamber Jazz Ensemble

Cadence was a Soviet chamber jazz ensemble, established in 1978 by German Lukyanov. The band had been performing Lukyanov's original compositions and heavily re-arranged jazz standards. Cadence toured around the USSR extensively and participated in a few foreign festivals, including Nord Sea Jazz (1984) in Hague and in Poland. Most musicians played multiple instruments, so the small group of six people had a timbre and expressive variety of a big-band. Lukyanov used complicated rhythmic patterns, unusual arrangement techniques, chromatics, atonality, dodecaphony. Some critics considered Cadence to be one of the most innovative and advanced Soviet jazz bands of the 1970-80s. In 1990, Lukyanov disbanded Cadence since he couldn't afford to keep a larger ensemble due to an economic crisis. Instead, he started performing in a smaller trio with pianist and drummer, collaborating with , (son of Mikhail Okun, one of the original members of Cadence), Vano Avaliani, and Dmitri Sevastianov. German Lukyanov reformed Cadence with a new line-up in 2007 and released two albums since then. The name of the band is an abbreviation in Russian: КАДАНС = Камерный Джаз-Ансамбль (translated as "Chamber Jazz Ensemble"). Original line-up German Lukyanov  piano, trumpet, flugelhorn, alto horn, slide whistle Yuri Yurenkov  alto saxophone, flute Nikolai Panov  tenor saxophone, flute Mikhail Okun  piano Valery Kutsinsky  double bass Valery Kaplun  drums

Members

• Станислав Коростелев
• Вадим Ахметгареев
• Станислав Григорьев
• Сергей Слободин
• Николай Панов
• Иван Волков
• Валерий Куцинский
• Михаил Окунь
• Алексей Гагарин
• Léo Kushnir
• Герман Лукьянов
• Александр Веремьев
• Юрий Юренков
• Валерий Каплун
• Иван Авалиани
• Валерий Киселёв
• Андрей Бондарчук
• Борис Картавицкий
• Алексей Беккер