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Jazz Festivals in Russia
a brief guide |
Branford Marsalis Quartet performing at the
Usadba.Jazz Festival near Moscow, Russia, in June, 2009 (photo by Pavel
Korbut) This temporary
page is compiled for the benefit of those jazz artists and their agents
who look for the opportunity to perform at the numerous jazz festivals
in Russia. This is not a comprehensive guide. Meanwhile, you may find
this page beneficial as well.
Please note that Jazz.Ru
portal (where you have just reached) is, ultimately, a Web
representation of Russia's jazz magazine under the same name (Jazz.Ru,)
which means that we are NOT connected with any jazz festival, jazz club,
or venue; we are no booking agents, no promoters, no festival
organizers, and cannot accept tour queries from artists or their agents
ourselves.
We share the information that we have; this is all that we can do. If
you need to contact us, do so anyway!
This page updates regularly, so please check back soon for more
festivals (there is several dozens of them in Russia.) We are also
intended to add jazz club contacts soon, at least for Moscow and
St.Petersburg.
Thank you! |
Festival |
Contacts & more info |
Spring/summer season |
Triumph of Jazz (Triumf Jazza)
Moscow, early February (since 1999), the Moscow House of Music, 1.700
seats
Past headliners: Ahmad Jamal, Toots Thielemans, Joe Lovano, Elvin
Jones, Take 6, Lee Konitz, Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Igor Butman Big Band etc. |
organized by
Butman Music
Web site
Contacts |
Manor.Jazz (Usadba.Jazz)
Formerly in
Arkhangelskoe Manor, near Moscow, early June (since 2004)
2019: Kolomenskoye Manor in the southeastern part of Moscow: five outdoor
stages, up to 20.000 listeners
Past headliners: Yusef Lateef, Avishai Cohen, Billy Cobham, Nils
Landgren Funk Unit, Marcus Miller, Branford Marsalis |
organized by
ArtMania
Festival Web site
Music director: Elena Moiseenko |
Jazz May
Penza, Russia (500 km east of Moscow), indoors/outdoors, up to 10.000 listeners
Past headliners: Igor Butman, Dena DeRose, Dock in Absolute, Alina
Rostotskaya, Emanuele Cisi, |
organized by PenzaConcert
Festival Web site
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Sib
Jazz Fest
Novosibirsk, Siberia, May
Jazz, avant, fusion, and the gorgeous Novosibirsk Big Band led by
Vladimir Tolkachov
Past headliners: Oliver Lake, Stanley Jordan, Kevin
Mahogany, Mike Stern, Ann Hampton Calloway, Richard Galliano, John
McLaughlin, Mike Stern, Craig Handy, Jean-Luc Ponty etc. |
Organized by
Novosibirsk Philharmonic
Society
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Veranda Blues
Vologda, Russia (400 km northeast of Moscow), outdoors, every July since
2004
Past headliners: Igor Butman, Leonig & Friends, Sergei Manoukian,
J.C. Smith, Kenny "Blues Boss" Wayne, JD Walter etc. |
Festival Web
site |
Autumn/winter season |
Jazz at the Hermitage Garden
Moscow, Hermitage Garden (outdoors, up to 5.000 listeners a day), 3rd
weekend of August, since 1998
Local, European, Latin American, and U.S. acts
Past headliners: Adam Makovicz, Randy Brecker, Lew Tabackin, Pago
Libre, Larry Willis, Gary Bartz, Gary Smulyan, Alex Sipiagin, Igor Butman
2008 review in JazzTimes |
organized by
EverGreen Jazz
and
MosGorPark
Producer: Mikhail "Don Miguel" Green |
Arkhangelsk Jazz Days
Arkhangelsk, Northern Russia (near White Sea), late October, since 1982
Jazz, new jazz, avant jazz, improv -- mostly Russian and Scandinavian
acts, but also Americans, non-Scandinavian Europeans, Japanese
improvisers, et al. |
Organized by
Arkhangelsk Jazz
Production Center Producer:
Tim
Dorofeyev |
Jazz Province
10-12 major cities in central Russia, starting in Kursk, also covering
Voronezh, Oryol, Lipetsk, Tula and others. 20-30 artists from the U.S.,
Europe, Japan, South America and Russia set to tour in late October -
early November and migrate through the festival cities, playing one or
two nights in each city.
Past headliners: Bill Evans, Mike Clark, Eric Marienthal, Ernie
Watts, the New York Voices, Scott Henderson, Eric Alexander, Hakon
Kornstad, et al. |
organized by
Kursk Philharmonic Society and ArtFolio
Festival website
Artistic director: Leonid Vintskevich
Producer: Alexander Lukinov |
Jazz Voices
Moscow, early December (since 1995), House of Journalists (200 seats)
Local, European, and American participants, mostly with local rhythm
sections |
organized by
Jazz Art Club
Director: Alex Eidelman |
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