Do you know of Albert Lucci, the eccentric jazz artist?

[Dmitry]

I belong to a FB group focused on materials from old Russian-language newspapers. This just came up, presumably from 1937.

Movie theater "HAMMER"

From May 1

Performances of a jazz artist

ECCENTRIC

ALBERT LUCCI 

(AFRICA)

with participation of jazz

under direction of V.Koloskov

 

I don't know who Koloskov and his "jazz" were, but who is Albert Lucci, or Luzzi?

[Dmitry]

Well, I still don't know who Albert Luci [or Lucci] was, and which country he called home, but now I know he was a tap dancer, who performed in the USSR in the 1930s, and sired three children with a Russian woman. They soons split up, and she married a Russian man, who, I'm assuming, raised the children. One of his sons became an type-cast minor actor and a mime in the USSR. For a while he performed under his biological father's name. It appears that he died from the "Russian disease" in the early 1990s. What became of the real Albert Luci...? Did he go back wherever he came from? Did he die in the USSR...the jazz eccentric.

https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B2,_%D0%AD%D1%80%D0%BC%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B3%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%B4_%D0%9D%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87

Edited February 7, 2022 by Dmitry