Pianophilia

Dr. Nuné Melikian is the author of Arno Babadjanian: An Armenian Beat in Soviet Time, which is the first English-language book on this remarkable composer aimed at a broad audience. She is also the North American representative of the Arno Babajanian International Foundation.

More at https://mirrorspectator.com/2025/03/20/ ... abajanian/

I've just taken delivery of the book from the author's website via https://www.nunemelik.com/product-page/ ... oviet-time

ref: Babajanian / Babadjanian / Babajanyan / Babadjanyan

From one of the old Soviet collections "Pop Jazz Pieces for Piano"

Jazz ensemble "Allegro" version of the piece performed at the 6th Moscow Festival of Soviet Jazz (1978)



Nikolai "Nick" Levinovksy (1945-) Russian born jazz musician, and now New York bandleader

bio: https://www.jazz.ru/eng/pages/levinovsky/
memoir: https://libertypublishinghouse.com/shop ... -sold-out/
Russian bio: https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D0 ... 0%B8%D1%87