Peak hour 04/29/1996 (1996)

Musical critic, jazz player Alexei Batashev speaks about his life, his fate, his parents, who were subjected to repression in the 1930s, his birth in prison, about his scientific and creative career, hobby for jazz, about the history of world jazz and its roots, about the attitude to jazz in the USSR in different historical periods, about famous Soviet and Russian jazz players and their repertoire, about the essence of jazz as a musical art, about working on their historical book and the reasons for its writing.