Aleksandre Kiladze's Jazz Choral Aleksandre Kiladze's Jazz Choral

Label / Tbilisi Records
Category / Jazz, Swing
Code / TBIL001

As its maiden release, Tbilisi Records presents the recordings by one of the essential Georgian jazz formations of the 1980s. Alexandre Kiladze's Jazz Choral, formed in 1985, featured an impressive lineup of 11 vocalists complemented by a full band. Alongside standards, the ensemble's material contained many outstanding, stylistically versatile originals lushly arranged into the layered vocal harmonies juxtaposed against the band's tuneful, dynamic play. The polyphony Jazz Choral displays draws equally from Georgian folklore and vocal jazz band tradition. This singular fusion of these two culturally distinct elements creates a remarkable listening experience often emulated by newer Georgian jazz formations thereafter. This LP remasters nine songs that comprise Jazz Choral's only Melodya record (recorded and issued in 1987) and adds a previously unreleased version of "Borjomi Valley," initially intended for the same album. This bonus track covers an early Georgian swinging song from the mid-1950s written by Guram Bzvaneli. Besides being long out-of-print, the original LP is one of the rarest Georgian releases ever, with only 2000 copies made then. Since only low-bitrate audio files have been available online for decades, TBIL-001 breathes new life into one of the most valuable documents of Soviet-era Georgian jazz.

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