Finding capable Russian horn players in Moscow in the 1970s who could play “25 or 6 to 4,” “Make Me Smile” and other brassy rock songs by the American band Chicago proved daunting for Leonid Vorobyev.

If you wanted to listen to anything other than Soviet propaganda music in 1970s Siberia, the best you could hope for was an illicit copy. But when Leonid Vorobyev got his hands on an album by the band ...

American music has always been admired and appreciated throughout the world. As unlikely as it may once have seemed, country and bluegrass became popular in Japan, jazz was adopted by the French and ...