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[b]Cadence[/b] was a Soviet chamber jazz ensemble, established in 1978 by [url=https://discogs.com/artist/2714867]German Lukyanov[/url]. The band had been performing Lukyanov's original compositions and heavily re-arranged jazz standards. Cadence toured around the USSR extensively and participated in a few foreign festivals, including [i]Nord Sea Jazz[/i] (1984) in Hague and [l=Jazz Jamboree Festival] in Poland. Most musicians played multiple instruments, so the small group of six people had a timbre and expressive variety of a big-band. Lukyanov used complicated rhythmic patterns, unusual arrangement techniques, chromatics, atonality, dodecaphony. Some critics considered Cadence to be one of the most innovative and advanced Soviet jazz bands of the 1970-80s. In 1990, Lukyanov disbanded Cadence since he couldn't afford to keep a larger ensemble due to an economic crisis. Instead, he started performing in a smaller trio with pianist and drummer, collaborating with [a=Léo Kushnir], [a=Yakov Okun] (son of Mikhail Okun, one of the original members of Cadence), [url=https://discogs.com/artist/4314259]Vano Avaliani[/url], and [url=https://discogs.com/artist/702972]Dmitri Sevastianov[/url]. German Lukyanov reformed Cadence with a new line-up in 2007 and released two albums since then. The name of the band is an abbreviation in Russian: КАДАНС = [b]Ка[/b]мерный [b]Д[/b]жаз-[b]Анс[/b]амбль (translated as "Chamber Jazz Ensemble"). [b]Original line-up[/b] German Lukyanov – piano, trumpet, flugelhorn, alto horn, slide whistle Yuri Yurenkov – alto saxophone, flute Nikolai Panov – tenor saxophone, flute Mikhail Okun – piano Valery Kutsinsky – double bass Valery Kaplun – drums