Leo Feigin

Real Name: Леонид Самуилович Фейгин (Leonid Samoilovich Feigin) Profile: Leo Feigin, or Лео Фейгин (b.1938) is a British producer, founder of prolific Leo Records, and BBC radio broadcaster, known to Russian listeners as 'Alexei Leonidov.' Born in Leningrad, Leonid Feigin graduated from the Lesgaft National State University of Physical Education in 1959, and became a master of sports in high jump in 1960. Feigin later studied English language and philology at the Leningrad State Pedagogical Institute, graduating in 1967. He worked as a translator and had been teaching English at Pedagogical Institute. Not a musician, Feigin was very passionate about jazz throughout his whole life, listening to Willis Conover's programs on the semi-pirated Voice of America radio, and getting involved in the emerging Soviet jazz scene as a concert announcer. https://www.discogs.com/artist/331271-Leo-Feigin