Georgy Garanyan Biography

Subscribe to Georgy Aramovich Garanyan, a representative of the first generation of post -war masters of Russian jazz. In the year, George became the first “Soviet” musician who entered the legendary “Shanghai” composition of the orchestra Oleg Lundstrem. After moving to Moscow in the year, the orchestra was replenished, and the “Shanghayans” and “Harbinists” - Russian emigrants who returned to the “historical homeland” after the Second World War - was not available.

They took the "Soviet": Trubach Yuri Kavrai and Altist Garanyan. In the second half of the X, Georgy Garanyan performed with the concert pop orchestra of the All -Union Radio under the direction of Vadim Ludwikovsky. In the years, he led the ensemble "Melody". The ensemble performed for the most part the music of popular Soviet composers in jazz processing. The first plate was sold 4 million copies.

In total, the team recorded 16 solo giant plates and 9 plates of mini-albums. Garanyan performed a batch of a saxophone in the films “Diamond Hand”, “We are from Jazz”, “Autumn Blues”, in the cartoon “Well, wait a minute! But what about musical education? He conducted the Estonian radio orchestra, the pop-symphonic orchestra of central television, wrote music for television of the program “Magic Lantern” and “Benefis” and for the movie “Recipe for Her Youth”, “Pokrovsky Gate”.

Music to the “Pokrovsky Gate”, due to the “cult” nature that Mikhail Kozakov gained this film, probably became the most often mentioned by the film work of George Aramovich, although as a result he is constantly attributed to Alexander Tsfasman, who sounded in the film and almost “clock loves” of Bulat Okudzhava, also used in the phonogram. The shocking economic reality X found many veterans of Soviet jazz by surprise.

Just not Garanyan. It was not possible for him to lead several orchestras simultaneously and have creative contacts throughout the country. Few of the post -Soviet jazzmen in the last two decades touched as much as George Garanyan. Garanyan worked in the widest range. He led the orchestra of the Moscow circus. He was the first of the domestic jazzmen received the title of People's Artist of Russia.

George had his own subscription in the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory Well, not the only jazz subscription, we say, we put it: the first was the subscription to Alexei Batashev.

Georgy Garanyan died on January 11 of the year from a heart attack during a tour in Krasnodar. For his merits, this wonderful musician was awarded several honorary titles - such as Honored Artist of the RSFSR, People's Artist of the Russian Federation, and received many awards to the State Prize of the Russian Federation, the Order of Merit to the Fatherland, the Order of Honor, the Order of Peter the Great!