The USSR State Jazz Band (or the State Jazz Orchestra of the USSR, ) was a Soviet jazz band that existed in 1930s–1940s.
After it was auditioned by Joseph Stalin in 1938, a number of similar state-sponsored musical ensembles were created across the country.
Critical analysis S. Frederick Starr comments in his book on the Soviet jazz that the band "played with a polish and precision any Western pop orchestra might have envied". But then he adds:
Boris Schwarz's book Music and Musical Life in Soviet Russia, 1917–1970 describes The State Jazz Orchestra of the USSR as "essentially" a "„light“ music" (easy listening) orchestra.
Selected discography "Katyusha" (1939)
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