Age limit to the event: no age limit
Event language: latvian/english
Free entrance to the event: up to 7 years old persons
Doors open: at 18:30
Event length: ~3h30min
- Seniors, scholars and students – 15% discount with a previous receiving of discount coupon at Kr. Valdemāra street 5, office 309;
- Magazine „Figaro” subscribers – 15% discount with „Culture Card”

DOUBLE-CONCERT
Robert Glasper Experiment /USA/
SOMI /ASV/

ROBERT GLASPER and SOMI to perform in a double-concert of festival „Rigas Ritmi 2013”!
On July 4th during the festival “Rigas Ritmi 2013” a two-piece* concert – GRAMMY award winner ROBERT GLASPER and new African jazz artist – SOMI!

Robert Glasper won this year’s „Grammy” award for the best R&B album „Black Radio”, recorded at prestigious „Blue Note” jazz record label. Pianist’s and composers mission is to mix the modern jazz with hip hop and R&B. This mixture forms an experimental sound, and Robert Glasper calls his musical project – Robert Glasper Experiment!

Glasper collaborates with a number of modern hip hop and R&B artists, produced Mos Def and also a co-work with Kanye West, Erykah Badu, Meshell Ndegeocello, Jay-Z and Maxwell. Artist has proven himself also as an innovative pianist together with Russell Malone, Roy Hargrove and Terence Blanchard.

New African jazz artist – as she calls herself – SOMI presents a sound mixture consisting of African and jazz elements. Born in Illinois (USA), in a family of immigrants from Rwanda and Uganda. SOMI keeps the African and jazz legacies always crucial to her own sound. Often compared to Miriam Makeba and Sarah Vaughn.

SOMI has an interest about how her African roots impact her musical perspective. During the last year artist has travelled through Africa. She chants the very little details of Africa composed in new stories to share with the listeners.

Information:
www.robertglasper.com
www.somimusic.com

*the order of concerts to be announced

Feel the rhythm!

Age limit to the event: no age limit
Event language: latvian/english
Free entrance to the event: up to 7 years old persons
Doors open: at 18:30
Event length: ~3h30min
- Seniors, scholars and students – 15% discount with a previous receiving of discount coupon at Kr. Valdemāra street 5, office 309;
- Magazine „Figaro” subscribers – 15% discount with „Culture Card”

DOUBLE-CONCERT
Medeski Martin & Wood /USA/
Butterscotch /ASV/

In a double-concert of festival „Rigas Ritmi 2013” – avant-garde jazz trio Medeski Martin & Wood and a brand new talent of beatbox - Butterscotch!

Within the festival „Rigas Ritmi 2013” on July 5th in the Riga Congress Center a two-piece concert* - innovative and experimental trio Medeski Martin & Wood and beatbox champion Butterscotch from USA!

Medeski Martin & Wood effortlessly straddles the gap between avant-garde improvisation and accessible groove-based jazz. Emerging out of the New York downtown scene in the early '90s, they soon set out on endless cross-country tours before returning home to Manhattan to further refine their sound through myriad influential experimentations.

Though they started out with a more-or-less straightforward piano-bass-drums jazz setup, the threesome expanded their sound with unusual configurations. Medeski added electric piano (outfitted with distortion pedals and other effects), and began switching back and forth among Hammond organ, Clavinet, Mellotron and other keys. Wood alternated between stand-up and bass guitar, stuck paper behind his strings for a “snare” effect and occasionally employed a drumstick as a slide.

Though the “jazz spirit,” as they like to call it, has been ever-present in their sonic voyages, Medeski Martin & Wood have won over a substantial audience that rarely responds to instrumental music - their club and festival appearances are packed with alternative-rock lovers as well as jam-band aficionados and jazz heads.

Butterscotch is a singer/songwriter/musician who incorporates beatboxing into her compositions with instruments she plays, including the piano, flute, saxophone, bass and guitar.

Antoinette Clinton's stage name „Butterscotch” originated from a song she wrote about candy in high school. She is heavily influenced by jazz, classical, hip hop and R&B artists ranging from Frederic Chopin to John Coltrane to Stevie Wonder.

Butterscotch is an internationally recognized as a vocal artist from her appearance on NBC's "America's Got Talent" as a finalist. She amazed the crowd singing, playing the piano and beatboxing. Prior to America’s Got Talent, Butterscotch claimed titles as both the first International World Female Beatbox Champion and the West Coast Beatbox Champion for both genders.

Information:
www.mmw.com
www.butterscotchmusic.com

*the order of concerts to be announced

Feel the rhythm!

Age limit to the event: no age limit
Event language: latvian/english
Free entrance to the event: up to 7 years old persons
Doors open: at 18:30
Event length: ~1h30min
- Seniors, scholars and students – 15% discount with a previous receiving of discount coupon at Kr. Valdemāra street 5, office 309;
- Magazine „Figaro” subscribers – 15% discount with „Culture Card”

Diane Schuur /USA/

Jazz legend Diane Schuur to perform in festival „Rigas Ritmi 2013”!

In the last concert of festival „Rigas Ritmi 2013” on July 6th – the New First Lady of Jazz – Diane Schuur will perform!

Vocalist and pianist Diane Schuur is brilliant and eclectic. Her musical style has developed thanks to Dinah Washington and many other legendary jazz artists from ninety forties and fifties.

Her musical career spans nearly three decades and explores nearly every corner of the 20th century American musical landscape. Diane Schuur embraces not only the jazz artists of her parents generation but also - pop music of her youth in the late fifties and sixties.

Being blind from the birth, she has a magnificent hearing. Thanks to it Diane studied how to play piano only by hearing and developed her three-and-a-half octave voice.

During her career Schuur has recorded over twenty music albums, many compositions have been in the highest positions in Billboard, Billboard Jazz and Contemporary Jazz charts. She is also a Grammy award winner for the best albums.

Schuur’s voice is, to put it very mildly, beautiful. She has a vocal range that can deliver low, grumbly laments and high, crooning wails with equal effectiveness, and wonderful vibrato, - CMJ

Information:
www.dianeschuur.com

Feel the rhythm!

Age limit to the event: no age limit
Event language: english
Free entrance to the event: up to 5 years old persons
Doors open: at 18:30
Event length: ~1h30min

Luca Aquino: trumpet, loops
Tore Brunborg: tenor and soprano saxophones
Jim Watson: Hammond B3 organ, piano
Manu Katché: drums

For Manu Katché fourth ECM album, titled just Manu Katché, the great French-Ivorian drummer reshuffles the line-up of his band once more, and presents a new program of compact, self-penned tunes. The revolving door policy is part of Katché’s song writing concept: “If you write all your own music, you’re aware of your limitations. It helps to have a changing cast of musicians, because they naturally bring in things you wouldn’t have expected. It’s really been the idea since the first album [2004’s Neighbourhood] to keep on changing the band.” Choices of musicians have usually been inspired by meetings and encounters. “I’ll get to play with someone and then try to have his style, or at least the essence of his style, in mind when I write the music at the piano.”

Only Norwegian saxophonist Tore Brunborg remains from the group heard on Third Round. “In the band sound, Tore is a ‘leader’, sonically,” Manu explains. “Even if I play melodically on my instrument, as a drummer I have other responsibilities in the ensemble. I can’t always be the leading voice. Tore’s approach to the melodies and the themes, in the studio and also live, is just right, and his sound has become the sound that I hear in my imagination when I write new music. He’s my main man.” On the present session Brunborg finds himself reunited with trumpeter Nils Petter Molvær: they began their careers together, almost thirty years ago, as young musicians in Arild Andersen and Jon Christensen’s band Masqualero, and their affinity as players is undimmed.

With his 1997 ECM album Khmer Nils Petter Molvær recast the format for electric jazz. Katché has been listening to him on record for a long time, but trumpeter and drummer did not have the opportunity to play together until the Montreal Jazz Festival combined them for a free-spirited set with Paolo Fresu, “all improv and loops and sounds,” as Manu recalls. “I found we had something in common.” Manu subsequently invited Nils Petter to join the recording project, and praises his idiosyncratic feeling for sounds and textures which seemed, he says, both to “glue the album together” and to open the music up.

At the core of the new pieces, however, is Manu’s unmistakable drum sound, and the album opens with the sound of him alone on “Running After Years”. He speaks of the feeling of freedom he finds in working with London-based keyboardist Jim Watson, who on several tracks covers also some of the role of bass with the pedals of his Hammond B3. “This is the first of my own albums where I’ve worked without a bass player. Usually I’m working very closely with a bassist. But I wanted to make some quite radical changes in the band, and the sound of the Hammond is something I’ve always loved.” Katché first encountered Watson through the Arte TV show “One Shot Not”. “Then I invited him to join my band last year for a festival date and what he brought in was very strong.” There were further performances in concert and on TV with a spontaneously assembled group including Katché, Watson, Meshell Ndegeocello and Pino Palladino, which further convinced Manu of the organist/pianist’s strengths. He sees Watson as an outsider rather like himself. “We’re both coming from this other cultural corner, the pop world, and are influenced by that, yet also have jazz backgrounds and a certain jazz attitude.” (…) “Playing with him is very interesting for me. We have a kind of duet thing going on, organ and drums are the rhythm section this time and this was my starting point for thinking about the music. The bass sound from the organ pedal board is not as clearly defined as the sound of an electric or upright bass. The sound of the organ surrounds you and I’m playing with that sound and can react to it in different ways. I can groove, or just flow, or wait... It opens up many new dynamic possibilities for me as a drummer.”

***

Born in Paris and originally a pianist – on the present album he pays solo piano on “Dusk on Carnon” – Katché switched to percussion while studying at the Paris Conservatory. His distinctive drum style is derived from classical snare drum and kettledrum studies as well as from a conscious embracing of African roots. His work with Peter Gabriel on the album So and, subsequently on the Amnesty International World tour with Gabriel, Sting and Tracey Chapman catapulted him to world attention and he was soon recording and/or touring with Joni Mitchell, Robbie Robertson, Dire Straits, Simple Minds, Youssou N’Dour, Joan Armatrading, Joe Satriani and dozens more. His ECM affiliations include recordings with Jan Garbarek, amongst them: I Took Up The Runes, Twelve Moons, Visible World, In Praise of Dreams, and the live album Dresden. Katché’s first leader date for the label, “Neighbourhood”, was recorded in 2004, with “Playground” following in 2007, and “Third Round” in 2010. 

In 2012, Katché has again been touring with Peter Gabriel, including a series of North American concerts, celebrating the 25th anniversary of Gabriel’s So album. Dates with Manu’s own band begin October 18th and continue into 2013.

Sõru Jazz VI

Sõru Jazzi kava

Muhu tulevikumuusika festival “Juu Jääb 2013” toimub juba 17. korda 3.-7. juulil 2012 Muhus ja Saaremaal.

Festival Juu Jääb on  Muhus ja Saaremaal toimuv oodatuim suvesündmus. Eestis on ainult loetud arv muusikaüritusi, mis võivad niisuguste traditsioonide üle uhked olla. Eriliseks teeb Juu Jääbi see, et festival toimub loodusjõudude meelevallas - olgu selleks siis paduvihmas mudaseks muutuv rohukamar, romantilist südant kosutav tähistaevas või juulikuine päikeseleitsak. Ikka ja alati tulevad inimesed kokku tähistama muusika sündi, mis niisugusel kujul saab mõjuda ainult selle vana Nautse Mihkli talu õuel, nende iidsete puude, kiviaedade ja rookatuste loodud sünergias.

Selle aasta esinejad  tulevad Rootsist, Norrast, Soomest, Fääri saartelt, Saksamaalt, USA-st,Brasiiliast ja muidugi saab kuulata Eesti muusikute paremikku.

Festivali passi hind kuni 31.12.12 - 40€

Festivali passi hind 01.01.13-28.02.13 - 45€
 

Festivali passi hind 01.03.13 - 14.05.13 - 50€

Festivali passi hind 15.05.13 - 06.07.13 - 60€

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