XVI International Jazz Festival "Jazz Bez"

One of the biggest jazz events of the year - the XVI International Jazz Festival "Jazz Bez" - will take place on December 2-11!

The sixteenth JazzBez will bring together Uzhhorod, Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ternopil, Kyiv, Kharkiv, Lutsk, Rivne, Kramatorsk, and the Polish cities of Przemysl, Lublin, Bialystok, Wroclaw, Warsaw, and the village of Novytsia, where the Ukrainian poet Bohdan-Ihor Antonych was born. Lviv is the ideological and organizational heart of the festival.

All the jazz musicians will gather in Lviv and then go on to give concerts throughout Ukraine and Poland. Here jazz will be heard for the longest time, and the Lviv audience will listen to the best musicians from the USA, Canada, Japan, Italy, Spain, Luxembourg, Belgium, Germany, Sweden, Moldova, Poland and Ukraine.

"Jazz Bez is one of the largest jazz events in Ukraine and Poland. It is a cross-border jazz marathon that unites dozens of cities, hundreds of musicians from around the world, thousands of music lovers, many kilometers and even more shades of jazz into a single celebration of music and freedom.

Concerts will take place in the Lviv Philharmonic, and evening jam sessions will gather musicians and jazz lovers in the Dzyga, as always.

Jazz fans will be able to enjoy

• a powerful women's jazz project Sisters in Jazz, created by famous musicians from Japan, the USA, Italy, Germany and Poland;
• modern jazz from Pol Belardi Quartet from Luxembourg;
• deep and pure European jazz by musicians from Spain, Sweden and Poland, brought together by the famous Spanish drummer Carlos López in the project "Letters From København";
• the duo of the best bassists from America and Ukraine David Friesen & Andrew Arnautov Project;
• the winners of this year's cult festival "JazznadOdrą" - Skicki-Skiuk;
• patriarchs of Ukrainian jazz DzygaJazzQuintet;
• the project of Ukrainian jazz drummer Igor Gnydyn and Polish vocalist Grzegorz Karnas - Karnas-GnydynQuartet;
• REDNAXELA - an international project of "musicians of the world" who are currently creating the jazz of the future and currently live in the USA, Canada, Belgium and Germany;
• high-quality Ukrainian future jazz from the famous Ukrainian musicians NEW BRAIN TRIO & Michael Balog;
• jazz with electronics and improvisations by the famous Wroclaw pianist KarasiewiczPowerSet;
• jazz project of young virtuosos from Poland, Moldova and Ukraine Budniak/BakovskyINTERMEDIUMQUINTET;
• world free-jazz stars, American saxophonist Ken Vandermark and German percussionist Klaus Kugel, who will come to Ukraine to play together with double bassist Mark Tokar at the end of the JazzBez festival.

In addition to the concert program, the festival will feature jazz master classes and a scientific conference.

The legendary American bassist David Friesen and the famous Polish vocalist and teacher of the Katowice Music Academy Grzegorz Karnas will hold two-day master classes for Ukrainian musicians.

"Jazz Bez" is ten days of jazz: traditional and avant-garde, Ukrainian and world, elite and accessible at the same time. The highlight of the festival is the combination of the maximum number of jazz styles (swing, fusion, be-bop, jazz-rock, yass, funk, cool, free jazz...) and improvisational music within one festival.

For the first time, the festival will include the International Scientific and Practical Conference "Ukrainian Jazz at the Crossroads of Cultures: Current Status, Trends and Prospects". It will be held on December 2-4 at the Department of Variety and Jazz Music of the Mykola Lysenko Lviv Music Academy.

Ticket sales for Jazz Bez started on October 24!

Look for tickets

• at the box office of the Lviv Philharmonic (7 Tchaikovskoho St.)
• at the Dzyga Gallery (35, Virmenska St.)
• on the website 2event.com

For fifteen years now, the festival organizers have been offering 50% discounts for students, cultural workers, and members of "Dzyga clubs" to promote jazz in Lviv. They could buy tickets at half price until November 20 at the Dzyga Gallery from 10:00 to 19:00.

Tickets cost from 100 to 250 UAH. For more information, please call (032) 297-56-12.

Information:

The festival began in 2001 with concerts in Lviv and Przemysl, and now has spread to major cultural centers of Ukraine and Poland. There is no precedent for such a jazz event in either Ukrainian or Polish music. Over the past 15 years, the festival has hosted hundreds of concerts, created dozens of international projects, and the number of musicians who have played at Jazz Bez has exceeded one thousand!

The main organizer of the festival is the Dzyga Art Association.

Hospitable reception of musicians: Ibis Styles Hotel.

The festival is held under the patronage of the Ambassador of Ukraine to the Republic of Poland Andrii Deshchytsia.

The project is co-financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland.

With the support of: Polsko - Ukrainska IzbaGospodarcza.

Exclusive media partners: Lux TV channel, Radio 24, News Channel 24 and ZAXID.NET.

Media patronage: TVP Kultyra.

Information partner: OLD FASHIONED RADIO.

Organizers: Art Association "Dzyga" (Lviv), Polish Institute in Kyiv, Institute of Contemporary Art (Lviv), Consulate General of the Republic of Poland in Lviv, Lviv City Council, Transkultura Foundation (Ukraine-Poland), Lviv Regional Philharmonic, Music: LX | Luxembourg Export Office, Consulate General of the Republic of Poland in Lutsk, Centrum Kulturalne w Przemyślu, Centrum Kultury w Lublinie, Warsztaty Kultury (Lublin), Fundacja Polski Jazz, Lutsk Jazz Club, Jam Jazz Club (Rivne), Koza Art Association (Ternopil), Art Club "Shynok" (Ternopil), Public Association "Armenian 35" (Lviv), Art Council "Dialogue", Polish Tourist Organization, Independent Cultural Center "Indie" (Kharkiv), Kharkiv Human Rights Group (Kharkiv).

Respect yourself - listen to jazz!