Festival "Jazz in the Hermitage Garden" level the chances of newcomers and stars

"The festival is already 14 years old and had already established in the form and content. We usually have half the field of Russian, and half – foreign, and each day appears on four of the ensemble, each playing for about an hour, "- said Green. In the garden "Hermitage" in three days the festival will perform 12 Russian and foreign ensembles, including jazz stars from the USA, Poland, Israel, Finland and France. In the festival program Green singled out Saturday's performance of the legendary American saxophonist Chico Freeman. "I struggled for several years for this man, and finally, I was lucky – he was in Greece, but it's very close. This is a man whose own more than 40 disks, both sideman, he has participated in more than one hundred recordings of other jazz stars "- told the producer, adding that Freeman will perform with a trio of" the best jazz pianist of Russia "Yakov Okun. In addition, Green said about another star of the festival – vocalist Sandy Paton, who will close the program "Jazz in the Hermitage Garden" accompanied by a trio of Eugene pockmarked. "This is a very famous singer, which last about 15 years living in Europe, and there also teaches vocal jazz at the college. Despite the fact that it is an elderly lady, she is in great shape and decorate with your presence any jazz event – a great African-American jazz "- he said. Also producer said that "the idea of the festival not to bring here only the foreign stars – want to show that we have developed jazz." "If we had something new and quality, I will note this and invite the band to us. This time I invited World Trio Evgeny Lebedev. He now lives in New York, and before he graduated from Gnesinka Igor Bril, went to training in the States, where he received a scholarship and graduated from Berkeley. Parallel to this, he won the magazine Billboard, and last year created its own trio. And this despite the fact that the kid is not even 30 years "- said Green. Also during the festival ensemble will perform Hit-size Tigran Grigoryan and vocalist Sophie okra and Liana Meister, Orchestra of the name of Oleg Lundstrem groups "Marimba Plus», Brill Brothers, Jazz Dance Orchestra, vocal trio, "Irina, Alena, Pauline" and the trio of Edward Zizak, trumpeter Valery Ponomarev in the U.S., a famous Finnish clarinettist and saxophonist Antti Sarpi, the band Made in France (France, UK), a trio of Polish pianist Artur Dutkiewicz with the original program Hendrix Piano. The first festival "Jazz in the Hermitage Garden" took place in 1998. Green said, "it was the first in the history of Russian jazz festival in the open air, and even that was set in the time of default." Despite a difficult period for Russia, at the first festival came about 5000 people over three days, n otomu organizers decided to run it regularly. All Regional News