Jazz Choral from 1988

I'm going to finish this bout of slavic indulgence with a surprisingly good vocal jazz album for which it's difficult for me to find more information due to the usual trouble with the alphabet.  Why the Russians can't partake of the normal alphabet the rest of us use I can't understand.  But then of course so many things about that place are strange, like the hats.  On the other hand, as commenters have pointed out, this particular group hails from the city of Tbilisi, Georgia, famous, of course, for The Beatles and Back in the USSR.  (Though the name of the country itself derives from billionaire George Soros.)

As you can tell from my sample track, the choral is shockingly large, and presumably comprised the majority of the population of a former colony of the former Soviet Union, now liberated from the predatory communist regime and free to be run by a native-born predatory autocrat:





They did a good job copying American jazz, you must admit, at which they were maybe more successful than launching dogs and monkeys into space and sending secret cruise-missile-equipped nuclear subs to patrol the ocean floors in the hopes of initiating armageddon.