Mississauga Ontario

On a bright winter day at Springcreek Cemetery in Mississauga, Ontario, I visited the grave of former Soviet spy–turned–informant Igor Gouzenko and his wife, Svetlana Igor Gouzenko served as a cipher clerk for the Soviet Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU), responsible for encrypting and decrypting sensitive communications. In 1943, during the Second World War, he was […]

He was called the “Maharaja of the keyboard” by Duke Ellington, simply “O.P.” by his friends, and informally in the jazz community as “the King of inside swing”. He released over 200 recordings and won seven Grammy Awards.