Contemporary jazz

Vinnytsia Jazz Fest

Vinnytsia Jazz Fest was launched in 1996 with the aim of depressurising the post-Soviet cultural space, as well as building up Ukraine’s jazz scene to make a...
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  • Jazz Kolo

    Jazz Kolo is a festival created for highlighting Ukrainian jazz, helping connect Ukrainian musicians and develop Ukrainian improv music. Jazz Kolo invites the musical elite of Ukraine...
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  • Jazz Bez

    Jazz Bez: Founded in 2001 in both Lviv and Przemyśl, the Jazz Bez International Jazz Festival is a ten-day art marathon with dozens of musical groups that...
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  • Am I Jazz?

    Am I Jazz? is an annual festival of Black American and improvised music which has been running since 2016. It takes place at Closer, an art and...
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  • Leopolis Jazz Fest

    Leopolis Jazz Fest (called Alfa Jazz Fest until 2017) is an international open-air jazz festival which was set up in 2011 and has since been held annually...
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  • Piotr Rudnicki

    Piotr Rudnicki is a journalist, reviewer, editor, and musical curator who lives and works in Gdansk, Poland. His professional work with music mostly concerns jazz, and from...
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  • Indrė Jučaitė-Sarneckienė

    Indrė Jučaitė-Sarneckienė has been actively engaged in organising the annual international Kaunas Jazz festival in Lithuania since 1994, firstly, as a volunteer from 1994 to 1999; then...
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  • Christoph Huber

    Between 1991 and 1998 Huber was the co-organiser of the international jazz festival Saalfelden. In 1993 he organised the symposium, The Situation of Contemporary Music on the...
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  • Andrii Prozorov

    Andrii studied at the Odesa Conservatoire, after which he travelled to gain musical experience in many different parts of the world. During this period, he met Rudi...
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  • Vadym Neselovskyi

    Whether as a pianist, composer, improviser, soloist or bandleader, Vadym Neselovskyi creates music that is truly inspired and wholly unique. This explains why his work has been...
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  • Usein Bekirov

    About: Usein Rіzaiovych Bekirov is a pianist, keyboardist, violinist, composer, arranger, and bandleader. A graduate of the Petro Tchaikovsky National Music Academy of Ukraine, he experiments mainly...
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  • Danylo Zverkhanovskyi

    About: Danylo Zverkhanovskyi considers instrumental and improvised contemporary music to be his main speciality as a solo artist. Zverkhanovskyi prefers performing original pieces, and as a composer...
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  • KK4TET

    About: KK Quartet is a Kyiv-based band made up of Khrystyna Kirik (bandleader, double-bass), Mykola Ryshkov (alt/tenor saxophone), Hryhorii Parshin (baritone saxophone), and Taras Kozak (drums). The...
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  • Pokaz Trio

    About: Pokaz Trio represents a new generation of instrumental music of Ukraine: its members combine jazz, classical, and traditional Ukrainian music with electronica. There is a special...
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