Alexander Tsfasman, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Alexander Tsfasman

Soviet Jazz composer, pianist, and conductor

Date of Birth: 14-Dec-1906

Place of Birth: Zaporizhzhia, Zaporizhzhya Oblast, Ukraine

Date of Death: 20-Feb-1971

Profession: composer, conductor, pianist, musician, bandleader, jazz musician

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Alexander Naumovich Tsfasman (Russian: ????????? ???????; born December 14, 1906 - died February 20, 1971) was a Soviet Jazz pianist, composer, conductor, arranger, publisher and activist.
He was an important figure in Soviet Jazz from the period of the mid-1920s until the late 1960s.Tsfasman was born in Alexandrovsk (now Zaporizhya, Ukraine) in the Russian empire, and graduated from the Nizhegorod Musical Technicum in 1923, where he played percussion in the orchestra, and graduated from the Moscow Conservatory in 1930 from the piano class of Felix Blumenfeld.