The concerts of the jazz festival “Brodsky Drive” will be held every weekend, from June 18 to July 17, in the garden of the Fountain House (Museum of Anna Akhmatova) at Liteiny Prospekt, 53. The Anna Akhmatova Museum invites you to cozy musical evenings, organized in the best traditions of the northern capital. Here the classic meets avant-garde, masterly performance – with a democratic atmosphere, and listeners – with musical experiments and improvisation. The festival program includes 8 concerts of modern jazz from Russian and foreign musicians.
Jazz, born at the junction of cultures, based on improvisation, intuition, impulsive rhythms, was the favorite music of Joseph Brodsky. Many of his works are similar to jazz compositions. They are rhythmically, atmospheric and stylistically connected with the aesthetics of jazz.
The music festival “Brodsky Drive” was held for the first time in 2015 and was timed to coincide with the anniversary of the poet. Today the festival has become a summer open-air, to which the world stars come every year. In case of rainy weather, organizers offer raincoats and blankets for guests.
The program of the festival “Brodsky Drive”:
June, 18th
Vladimir Chekasin (saxophones, Lithuania)
Quartet of Vyacheslav Gayvoronsky (trumpet)
June 25th
St. Petersburg Jazz Sept. A Tribute to Charles Mingus
June, 18th
Vladimir Chekasin (saxophones, Lithuania)
Quartet of Vyacheslav Gayvoronsky (trumpet)
June 25th
St. Petersburg Jazz Sept. A Tribute to Charles Mingus
July 1
People’s Artist of Russia Alexander Filippenko with the program “About jazz and not only” with the participation of the jazz quartet
2 July
“Volkov Trio” and guests
July 8
Trio Hasan Bagirov (guitar)
Jazz Funk Quartet Grigory Voskoboinik with the participation of Dmitry Semenov (saxophone)
9 July
United Jazz Collective with the participation of Deniss Pashkevich (saxophone, Latvia) and Ricardo Malmstena (bass guitar, Sweden)
Andrey Kondakov (keyboards)
July 15
In – temporalis: Polina Fradkin (keyboards), Yoel Gonzalez (percussion)
Ilya Sheklein’s Quartet (keyboard)
July 16
Andrei Kondakov electric project with the participation of Amy Peters (vocals)
All concerts begin at 19:00. The cost of admission is from 300 to 500 rubles. Tickets are sold in the ticket office of the museum.