What concerts you can listen to at the Bucharest Jazz Festival 2018

The festival program preserves the already established structure of ARCUB-related events and open-air concerts at George Enescu Square. The ARCUB events program includes well-known meetings, workshops, workshops and day conferences, complemented by nightclub festival events. In the evening, after the concerts on George Enescu Square, the ARCUB Gabroveni Jazz Club hosts the festival's jazz competition and live performances supported by jazz artists

Jan Garbarek, Trilok Gurtu, Lars Quatuor Danielsson, Teodora Enache and The Prophet Band and Bucharest Jazz Orchestra feat. Blue Noise are just a few of the artists announced

Bucharest Jazz Festival

Monday, July 2 | Monday, July 3

-> 19:00 @ ARCUB

• Opening of the Festival
• Opening of the exhibition Vinil @ BJF
• Album of Jazz Art & Vinyl

Tuesday, July 3 | Tuesday 19th July

-> Related Events @ Gabroveni Jazz Club, ARCUB

• 12:00 Florian Lungu Lecture: Centenary: Romanian Jazz on Vinyl
• 23:00 New Jazz Performers Competition
• jam sessions

Wednesday, July 4 Wednesday, July 4

-> Related Events @ Gabroveni Jazz Club, ARCUB

• 12:00 Review of the Romanian jazz record and debate Alex Arcuş: Jazz Beyond the Stage
• 23:00 Concours new jazz artists
• 24:00 JazzyBIT
• 9:30 pm Bucharest Jazz Orchestra with Live Jam Sessions

JazzyBIT is a trio composed of Teodor Pop (piano, keyboards), Mihai Moldoveanu (bass) and Szabó Csongor-Zsolt (drums) with blues, latin and funk. After winning the 2013 Muzza Foundation Prize in Bucharest, the group released the first Touch of the Sky album in early 2014, reaching the 9th place in the controversial Romanian music "Phones and Music". There are nearly 100 concerts both in the country and in Hungary (Budapest Jazz Club and A38), in Austria or in Italy, where JazzyBIT won the European Jazz Award of the Tuscia in Jazz Festival [19659023] Founded in 2012, The Bucharest Jazz Orchestra conducted by trumpeter Sebastian Burneci, is an independent jazz ensemble dedicated to contemporary jazz and creative music, with a varied repertoire ranging from jazz to his own compositions. . The group, focused on combinations of blowing instruments, are the best musicians of the Bucharest scene, as well as members of the National Radio Orchestra and the George Enescu Philharmonic Orchestra [19659023] The Blue Noise "voice" in which six young musicians translate the cappella style into jazz sounds of the 1950s and 1960s, beat and blues and boxing beats beat

Thursday, July 5 | Thursday, July 5 [19659005] -> Related events @ Gabroveni Jazz Club, ARCUB

• 20:00 Tiberian Mircea 19659009] Alex Calancea Band comes from the Republic of Moldova and brings a new and creative breath to the Romanian music scene. "Alex Calancea Band is a natural fusion where you can hear Drum 'bass' grooves and classic entournures to distorted folklore, improvised with a lot of implication and precision, all driven by a pulsating d & # 39; Energy that cancels the distance between silence and culminations "

  Mircea Tiberian is a pianist and composer of Romanian jazz, Alexandru Calancea, one of the most appreciated bassists and arrangers of the Republic from Moldova. He has toured the United States, France, Germany, Austria, Poland, the Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Greece, the former USSR, Syria and Romania. He sang alongside Larry Coryell, Tomasz Stanko, Herb Robertson, Ed Shuller, Nicholas Simion, Adam Pieronczyk, Maurice Martin, Theo Jorgensmann, Johnny Răducanu, Aura Urziceanu, Dan Mandrila, Anca Parghel

  at the musical level, but also an academic, as a lecturer at the University of Music of Bucharest, at the jazz section that he also founded in 1990. He is the founder and coordinator of the Jazz Department in Bucharest with 1990 up to 39 to now) and Cluj (from 1996 to present)

  Friday 6 July | Friday, July 6th

  -> Related Events @ Gabroveni Jazz Club, ARCUB

  • 12:00 Conference Cristian Soleanu and Mircea Tiberian: Artist in Residence – Jazz. A living history
  • 23:00 Concours New jazz artists
  • 24:00 Live jam sessions

  -> Live BJF concerts @ George Enescu Square

  • Enache and the band Prophet
  • 21:30 Lars Danielsson Quartet

  The formula proposed by Teodora Enache for the concert of July 6 is the group with which he created his new project, entitled The Prophet . Concert Music Teodora Enache and The Prophet Band Belongs to the famous jazz singer, a cinematic music with a story, marked by his spiritual quests
  [19659002] Lars Danielsson Quartet means Las Danielsson (bass / cello ), Grégory Privat (piano), John Parricelli (guitar) and Magnus Öström (drums / percussion). With an inimitable sound influenced by his classical musical education, Lars Danielsson is one of the world's most influential double basses who collaborated with a long list of international stars including Michael and Randy Brecker, John Scofield and Charles Lloyd.

  Easily recognizable, his musical signature combines a melodic sound, warm and cultivated with strong groove rhythms. His music as a leader is characterized by a particular sense for songs and entertaining arrangements and a flair for bringing together separate bands of musicians.

  Saturday, July 7th | Saturday, July 7th

  -> Related Events @ Gabroveni Jazz Club, ARCUB

  • 12:00 Trilok Gurtu Workshop: Talking Tabla
  • 24:00 Live Jam Sessions

  BJF Live Concert @ Jan Garbarek is given by the contrast between melodious and poetic elements

  • 21:00 Jan Garbarek Group starring Trilok Gurtu

  between simplicity and intensity of improvisation with other musicians. The artists who accompany him in the 2018 European tour each contribute in their own way: piano, Rainer Brüninghaus, Garbarek's longtime collaborator, Trilok Gurtu, the percussionist magician in India and Brazilian bassist Yuri Daniel. Together, the four caliber musicians form a well-trained group that brings Jan Garbarek's music to new dimensions

  Sunday, July 8th | Sunday, July 8

  -> Related events @ Gabroveni Jazz Club, ARCUB

  • 12:00 Mihai Iordache Workshop: Jazz for children
  • 24:00 Live jam sessions

  @ George Enescu Square

  • 20:00 Jazzmeia Horn
  • 21:30 Gonzalo Rubalcaba Special Guest Pedrito Martinez

  ] Jazzmeia is the winner of the International Jazz Vocal Competition Thelonious Monk (2015) and the Sarah Vaughan Jazz International Song Contest (2013). Compared to Betty Carter, Nancy Wilson and Sarah Vaughan, Jazzmeia grew up on gospel music played by her grandmother. During the Dallas Arts High School, he has a real cultural shock when he begins to listen to jazz during a jazz class. The music of John Coltrane and Miles Davis as well as the voice of singer Sarah Vaughan make her fall in love with jazz.

  In 2009, she moved to New York where she studied at New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music. Her first album, A Social Call, quickly rose to the top of JazzWeek in 2017 and in 2018 she was nominated for the Grammy Awards

  . The artist will be accompanied by Victor Gould (piano), Geraud Portal (double bass) Henry Conerway III (drums) and Marcus Miller (saxophone)
  The pianist and composer Gonzalo Rubalcaba young musician with a growing career in Cuba when it was discovered by Dizzy Gillespie in 1985. Since then, Piano & Keyboard Magazine has included 1999 among the greatest pianists of the 20th century, with names like Glenn Gould, Martha Argerich and Bill Evans, won two Grammy titles and two Latin Grammy titles.

  Grammy-nominated artist Pedrito Martinez finds success in the rhythm of Cuban drums, African conga and Peruvian cajón. Since his creation in New York in 1998, the Cuban percussionist has recorded and sung with Wynton Marsalis, Paul Simon, Bruce Springsteen, Sting and has contributed to more than 50 albums