| This is MJJA's official site on the Web. MJJA
unites people who write on jazz in Russian and regard this as their job and/or profession.
MJJA was created in 1997 by three founding members, all of them belonging to different
generations of Russian jazz writers:
- Dmitry Ukhov - Chairman of MJJA
- Mikhail Mitropolsky
- and Cyril Moshkow.
 Mr.
Ukhov is very active as writer, freelance music
critic (dozens of Russian and international publications), radio presenter (Radio of
Russia etc.), educator (Moscow Academic University), and producer (Alternativa New Music
Festival). You can learn more on his personal Web page.
 Mr. Mitropolsky is a radio presenter
(Radio of Russia and Mayak - both Russian nationwide state-owned channels - nad Moscow
Speaking, capital's city station), TV person (he hosts a weekly show at Prometeus, TV
channel which is spreaded through most of Russia's territory) and educator (Moscow
Improvised Music College). He also writes extensively for Jazz Complete, Russia's only Jazz Web
zine, and other publications.
 Mr. Moshkow, who serves a secretary to
MJJA and this site Web master, runs Russia's leading Web resource on jazz music, Jazz In Russia. He also writes for Jazz Quadrad, the only Russian
printed magazine on jazz, as well as for countless Russian and international publications
(including DownBeat). You can
learn more about him on his Web
page.
Other members and experts of MJJA include:
Peter Gannushkin (aka Shkin), Jazz Complete's correspondent, New York
Eugene Dolgikh, JazzQuadrad magazine (Minsk, Belarus), editor-in-chief
Mikhail Green, radio presenter (Moscow, Radio Nadezhda)
Alexey Kolosov (radio presenter, Radio of Russia - more than 90 million listeners)
Arkady Petrov, freelance journalist, Moscow (retired)
Vladimir Korneev, freelance journalist, Moscow
Anna Aladova, correspondent, JazzQuadrad (Minsk, Belarus)
Anatoly Veitsenfeld, Audio Producer Magazine, editor-in-chief (Moscow)
Vladimir Feyertag, freelance critic & jazz historian, St.Petersburg
Valery Rybakov, Jazz Complete's correspondent, Siberia
Artyom Lipatov, music critic, Playboy Russia (Moscow)
Mikhail Viesel, freelance journalist (Moscow)
Vladimir Kaushansky, Moscow Jazz Engagement, press secretary
and others. |