Yuri Vermenich Collection on Jazz Ephemera
- Title:
- Yuri Vermenich Collection on Jazz Ephemera
- Description:
- Vermenich is a Russian jazz historian. The collection consists of fifteen signed photographs and nine letters from American jazz musicians, and seven books about jazz that he translated to Russian.
- Biography:
- Yuri T. Vermenich was a Russian jazz historian and teacher, born in Voronezh on August 14, 1934. A radio engineer by profession, he graduated from the Leningrad Polytechnic Institute in 1957. With no special musical education, he first made the acquaintance of jazz music after World War II in 1946 and grew interested in it. He was founder and president of the Voronezh Jazz Club (1966)that organized jazz festivals and concerts, a member of the Council of Russian Jazz Federation and of the Russian Union of Professional Writers, and a teacher at Voronezh City Musical College. He was a judge at many jazz festivals, authored several articles in Russian newspapers and abroad, and translated to Russian over 30 books about jazz, including Leonard Feather's The Book of Jazz. Vermenich died on December 14, 2016.
- Finding Aid:
- https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv35684
- Archival Extent:
- 1 cubic feet