Jazzman Alexey Kozlov

Alexey Kozlov, Soviet era jazz legend, plays a saxophone, as he rehearses before his performance during the International Slavyansky Bazar art festival in Kiev, late Sunday, October 17, 1999. Alexey Kozlov have started his carrer as a jazz musician and composer in the "iron curtain" time, when jazz music and some kinds of art were under an unformal ban, and have become as a symbol of a freedom for the many jazz worshippers. UNIAN Photo