The 32nd international contemporary jazz festival "Vilnius Jazz" begins on Wednesday.
The four-day annual Vilnius Jazz Festival will invite representatives of the old and new jazz generations to the Russian Drama Theater in the capital, the organizers of the festival announce.
The festival program includes JAV pioneers of the avant-garde "The Art Ensemble of Chicago", creators of cosmic jazz "Sun Ra Arkestra", pianist Alexander von Schlippenbach and one of the most prominent jazz saxophonists of all time, American David Murray.
"Vilnius Jazz" also includes projects by stars of Lithuanian improvisational music with musicians from Norway, the Netherlands and Latvia.
For the fourteenth year in a row, the festival provides opportunities for young Lithuanian jazz creators to reveal themselves. On Thursday, Friday and Saturday, it will be possible to hear the groups that won the "Vilnius Jazz Young Power" competition organized in September.
The "Vilnius Jazz" festival has been organized since 1987, this year it will be held on October 16-20.
Author: Indrė Naureckaitė
