Izhevsk Jazz Festival

First of all want to mention that unfortunately I haven't been there but anyway i really hope that the performance was even better than this one (below). The festival which took 3 days and pulled a great mass of jazz lovers together (there was no empty seat in the hall!) showed its viewers different edges of jazz. Thus, one of the performers was Leonid Chizhik - a soviet and russian piano jazz player and composer. This is a brilliant artist who knows no boundaries between classical music and jazz and so is famous for it. The "Sueddeutsche Zeitung", the largest German daily newspaper, described him as the "European answer to Keith Jarrett" and the "least known supestar in the world of music". His program represented an improvisation based on the classic creatures. Here is the part (not from this fest, another one).

In fact such events are like a breath of fresh air for the city. Definitely we need More!