Today there are more important jazz musicians who come from outside the United States than ever before. Some stay home and strengthen their local scenes. Some emigrate to the U.S., thereby enriching jazz in its native land. Misha Tsiganov is in the second category.
In “Misha’s Story,” published in 2007 in , Russia’s primary jazz magazine, he tells what it was like to arrive in the U.S. from St. Petersburg in 1991 and start at “point
