Александр Цфасман

Alexander Naumovich Tsfasman was born on December 14, 1906 in a town of Alexandrovsk (now Zaporojye), in a barber’s family. The activity of Alexander Tsfasman, a pianist, composer, conductor, arranger and a bandleader covers the period of Soviet jazz development from the mid-twenties till late sixties.

From the age of seven he was studying violin and piano play, and entered the piano class of the Nijny Novgorod musical college when he was twelve. Continuing his studies at the Moscow conservatory piano department in professor F.M.Blumenfeld’s class, Tsfasman gets familiar with jazz. Already in 1924 he created a number of dance pieces like “Eccentric Dance”, “Sad Mood” and others, that gained big popularity.

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