ART of RIGA JAZZ

festivalorganised by

Contemporary Music Centre

Dates of next edition: 
From: 13/10/2023
To: 03/11/2023
Where:
Doma square 8
LV-1050
Riga
Latvia
When: 
October
November
Artistic Director: 
Maris Briezkalns
Description: 
Art of Riga Jazz is a special series of improvisation and jazz music concerts for musically passionate listeners who appreciate high-quality artistic performance and new nuances of musical sound, as well as want to meet great and internationally recognized musicians in a more intimate atmosphere. The concerts in the Latvian Radio Studio 1 will start with a conversation led by music journalist Kaspars Zaviļeiskas, allowing audience to understand even more the nuances of artist’s creative activity.

From October 13 to November 3 of this year, the versatile American jazz pianist Emmet Cohen with his trio, the outstanding Italian pianist Lorenzo De Finti with his quintet, the musically curious Italian band Satoyama and the Franco-Togolese singer with a broad view on the musical world Laura Prince together with the pianist Grégory Privat from Martinique will perform at the Art of Riga Jazz concertseries.

As part of the series, such world-class artists as Spanish singer and trombonist Rita Payés, American bassist Richard Bona and Cuban pianist Alfredo Rodriguez, Italian band XY Quartet, American guitarist Charlie Hunter and singer Lucy Woodward, American guitarist Jonathan Kreisberg, American steel guitar master Roosevelt Collier, American drummer Terry Bozzio, American trumpeter Christian Scott, British singer ALA.NI, British pianist Bill Laurance, Portuguese singer Salvador Sobral, Norwegian singer Kristin Asbjornsen, German guitarist Joscho Stephan, German pianist Ralf Schmid, Brazilian singer Paula Morelenbaum, Beninese guitarist and singer Lionel Loueke, British/Danish/Swedish trio Phronesis, a cappella group Accent and many other great musicians already performed in Riga.