About JazzPDF
A private collection, thirty years in the making
JazzPDF began not as a store, but as a working musician’s personal library — charts collected, copied, traded, and cared for over decades of gigs, rehearsals, and teaching.
The collector
For more than fifty years, Tatiana’s husband lived inside music. He performed in jazz ensembles of every size — big bands, dixieland groups, and small combos — while assembling a working library of professional arrangements.
Every arrangement published here passes through the JazzPDF review workflow: source files are checked, previews are generated, storage integrity is verified, and licensing status is recorded before a chart can appear in the public catalog.
Why it exists
The music moved inward. The library could still travel.
Today he is 78. His hearing is almost gone and his eyesight has faded, but his fingers still tap the melodies that have lived in him for half a century.
Tatiana decided the collection should not remain in boxes. JazzPDF is her way of helping musicians and educators find charts that can return to rehearsal rooms and bandstands.
“My husband devoted his whole life to music. His love is jazz. The music lives on in his mind.”
From the archive
Alexandroff Dixieland Band
Photographs from performances by the musicians whose dedication to traditional jazz inspired this collection.
With love, patience, and good wishes for the next performance.