"There's nothing quite like Red and Hot—it's funny and tragic, serious and comic—the story of jazz under the Commissars. Fred Starr's scholarship is impeccable and the story he puts together of the efforts of Stalin and his heirs to keep the Russians from substituting boogie-woogie and hard rock for the melancholy strains of the Volga Boatman is a minor epic." —Harrison Salisbury

Genres & Styles - Jazz/History and criticism/Jazz/Music/Soviet Union