Yevgeny Kazanovsky (*1937) got his first music education in the Choir College at the Leningrad State Academic M. I. Glinka Kapelle. Then there was the Moscow Institute of Military Conductors, the composition class in the Gorky (Nizhny Novgorod) Conservatoire. More than thirty years were given by Kazanovsky to military ensembles. He served as the art director of the Singing and Dancing Ensemble at the Pacific Navy and Baltic Command. Today he holds the post of the Singing and Dancing Ensemble at the Western Command. Yevgeny Kazanovsky, People’s Artist of Russia, professor of the St. Petersburg N. A. Rimsky-Korsakov State Conservatoire, mature master, high professional and a wonderful composer. Different genres are numbered among his creative baggage: the symphony and orchestra compositions, choral cycles and music for theatre, songs and plentiful arrangements for orchestra and choir, music for children. This collection of jazz pieces displays different steps of performing skill. Some of the miniatures (Nocturne, Summer Morning, Merry Clown and Jazz Waltz) are presented as the versions for 2 and 4 hands correspondingly. Ensemble texture turns these pieces to large-scaled compositions, where the spheres of melody and harmony are revealed together with concealed polyphony and supporting voices. Vivid titles stir imagination making for expressive interpretations. Thus performers resort to main jazz devices: syncopations, sequences, rhythms, improvisation, so as the harmony and melody fluctuations. Hopefully, these diverse pieces will be a success both in solo and ensemble performances.Yevgeny KazanovskyContents:Jazz Pieces for piano in 2 hands1. Promenade2. Curiosity3. Breeze4. Contrasts5. Nocturne6. Springy Little Ball7. Melancholy Girl8. Sunray Reflection9. Good Humour10. Summer Morning11. I Am Swinging12. Merry Clown13. This Short Dream14. Jazz Waltz15. RetroJazz Pieces for piano in 4 hands1. Summer Morning2. Warm Evening3. Jolly Traffic Lights4. Nocturne5. Jazz Waltz6. Autumn Out of the Window7. Evening Hour8. Merry Clown9. Autumn Landscape10. Summer Rain11. Acrobats12. In Honour of Gershwin13. Rider14. Waltz-Boston15. My Grand Pa’s Foxtrot