Rita Pajesa, who will perform tonight, November 11, at the Latvian Radio 1 studio, is one of the rising stars of the new Spanish jazz generation. She will play music with her mother, the well-known Spanish flamenco guitarist Elizabeth Roma, and double bass player Tom Felices. “This team of mother and daughter offers an original music repertoire with a sensual and delicate sound, mixing jazz, bossa nova and classical guitar sounds”, writes the Spanish portal. Subway.
Cameroon-born American bassist, singer and multi-instrumentalist Richards Bona will perform on November 16 at the VEF Palace of Culture. He knows how to blend Native African musical traditions, European and American jazz. Writing about him, newspaper Los Angeles Times invited “to imagine an artist with the virtuosity of Jaco Pastorius, the vocal fluidity of George Benson and the sense of song and harmony of Joao Gilbert intertwined with African culture”. In collaboration with the musical director of projects from world-renowned producer Quincy Jones – the outstanding young Cuban pianist Alfredo Rodríguez – Bona’s acoustic palette has received new colors and vigor. Playing in trio with Cuban drummer Michael Oliveira, this is a free and creative two-generation swim into the ocean of the world’s most passionate heart-to-mouth music. “This is a must-see trio,” says the concert series Riga Jazz Art artistic director Māris Briežkalns.
Italian New Jazz Association XY Quartet listeners will be invited to Latvijas Radio 1 studio on December 9th. The group has been operating for 11 years. Saxophonist Nicola Facini, bassist Alessandro Fedrigo, vibrophonist Saverio Taska and drummer Luca Colusi create together original, exciting and contemporary music in a fusion of free jazz and contemporary music. “The title reflects in some way the geometric nature of the proposed music, which is largely built on a network of trajectories along which the four instruments travel in many directions, sometimes opposite, sometimes parallel, sometimes intersecting, and the whose clear and crystalline grid forms the general atmosphere of the music, “Jazz said on the portal All about jazz.
All three Riga Jazz Art concerts start at 19.00
Tickets – www.ekase.lv.
