This week, the “LV Jazz Series 2021” is launched, which will offer concerts of Latvian jazz music performers in the legendary Latvian Radio 1st studio in online format. Concerts will take place once a month until the end of the year.
The concert series will be started this Thursday, July 29, by jazz guitarist, composer and winner of the competition “Riga Jazz Stage” Matīss Čudars together with bassist Edvins Ozols and drummer Ivars Arutjunjans. Matīss Čudars himself says about his new concert program that “it is dedicated to finding the unknown in the known”. The trio travels the path of modern jazz, looking for turns beyond the traditional formula of the genre and finding ever new musical solutions artistically.
Guitarist Rihards Lībietis with the group “Rihards Lībietis Orchestra”, vocal group “Insomnia”, pianist Krists Saržants, pianist and composer Toms Mikāls with a jazz quintet will also offer new concert programs in the LV Jazz Series 2021. “LV Jazz Series 2021” concerts will be available in online format – access code is available at www.aula.lv, its price is six euros.
Video recordings of the concerts will be offered to the international jazz music network “Europe Jazz Network”, which brings together more than 250 organizers of European jazz festivals, events and concert venues, thus the artists’ new jazz programs will be promoted internationally. “LV Jazz Series” is intended as an annual event that will offer listeners to get acquainted with the latest trends in Latvian jazz and will be another public platform for young artists.
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