In Irkutsk, the contemporary avant garde jazz festival Falling Up will be held for the first time, on August 7 and 8 at the Khudozhestvenny cinema. Audiences can expect performances by world jazz stars, improvisations, creative experiments, and music beyond familiar approaches. The program also includes a documentary on the history of avant garde jazz and support from the well known Leo Records label.
The festival of contemporary avant-garde jazz, “Falling Upward,” will take place in Irkutsk. Such an event is being held in our city for the first time. World jazz stars will perform on stage. They will demonstrate their skill, improvisations, as well as creative experiments. The festival will take place on August 7 and 8 at the “Khudozhestvenny” cinema.- Stars are expected to come to Irkutsk who make, mainly, intellectual music that breathed new life into jazz in the second half of the 20th century, going beyond the usual approaches to performance, arrangements, and melody, - notes one of the festival organizers, Irkutsk musician Yevgeny Masloboev.
- In addition, the audience will be shown a documentary film about the history of avant-garde jazz, - the organizers said.
One of the concert organizers was Irkutsk musician Yevgeny Masloboev. The festival of contemporary avant-garde jazz will take place with the support of one of the world’s leading independent labels of new music, Leo Records, which was founded in London in 1979.