A Little Bit of Background...

[neuralclone]

Since Illya's box of jazz records under his bed is firmly fanon (if not 100% canon!) I thought this page would be of interest as background...

Jazz Behind the Iron Curtain

... especially to the writers among us! There's even a page on the Stilyagi, a rebellious youth culture that flourished in the U.S.S.R. around the same time our Illya was a

Comments

[mrua7]

this was excellent info, thank you for posting!

; )

[pigshitpoet]

wow! that is so cool. how did you come across that?
kind of like beat, mod, swing, jazz, cool fusion
i love it!

Anatoly Vapirov was a progressive alto saxophonist who became one of the most influential players of experimental
free-jazz in the USSR and could play three saxophones at once, much like Rahsaan Roland Kirk in US