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When Soviet Hipsters Risked Jail for Jazz

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Here’s a fantastic little documentary on the time when Jazz, Rock’n’Roll, anything sung by an emigre, even ‘gypsy’ music was illicit in the USSR. How people managed to distribute music is extraordinary - they used x-rays. Writes Kim Kelly: There are stacks of Soviet and Soviet Bloc Jazz, funk, …