Gotskosik, Oleg Quintet - Oriental Suite

In 1979, the Soviet label, Melodiya, released a record that immediately stood apart from most Soviet jazz of its time and perhaps for that very reason never became widely known.

Oriental Suite, by Oleg Gotskosik Quintet, is a rare example of jazz, Eastern musical tradition, and compositional thinking coming together not as an exotic stylization but as a fully formed artistic statement.