Pianist, composer and jazz musician Uri Kein will play Raimond Paul Jazz Suite / Day
A new initiative is launched with this concert in the platform – Miracle area. A series of events in which you will unexpectedly and surprisingly reveal to the popular Latvian or, as was customary to call it, « Music in the stage ». As in this, the first time, the outstanding of different generations in jazz, who may not have been aware of each other’s existence so far, but whose contribution to the genre’s different scales and contexts is inconceivable. Series Miracle area The scenography is made up of artist Rudolfs Bekičs (Rudolf Beckic).
It would be unnecessary to try to make poetic texts to introduce the Latvian listener to Maestro or to explain the term « legendary » and « virtuoso » to the jazz fan of the use of Uri Kein. But, for the sake of clarity, reference to facts and information available to the upcoming event will not come to evil.
Is June 8, 1956, when Uri Kein comes in the world in Philadelphia. Like many in the world, the boy has been starting a piano since the age of 7, and 62 years later, the audience knows him as one of his generations’s most prominent and freestyle pianists, jazz musicians and music authors. This is because he travels between genres, but with respect, hesitating here in classics, focusing on the roots in Klezmer, breathing here in one rhythm with the era and collaborating Jungle, drum ‘n’ bass And other urban music genres and DJs, throwing it all in one place and throwing a challenge glove to conservative purists at your feet. His « jazzy » view of Mahler frustrated more than one traditionalist but did not stop on his interpreting Bach Goldberg variations, Beethoven Diabelli variations And the creative work of other classicism and romanticism. In many opinion, this fresh, non -confused but humble approach to the inviolable and canonized is the facet of Uri Kein’s mastery that makes him so special. It is no coincidence that Mr Kein and his colleagues have been addressed differently, to « imagine » the lesser -known Maestro’s lesser -known early creative work, so well -known to the Latvian listener.
Namely, back to 1964. Time when the little Uri has just begun to learn the piano. At that time, Raimonds Pauls became the leader of the Riga Stage Orchestra (REO) and in 1965 and 1966, he and his trio record instrumental suites at the Latvian Radio studio. According to sources, « these are stylistically diverse compositions that have been fulfilled for the first time in the Great Hall of Latvia in 1967 ». Well later, in 2021, publishing house Jersika Records Restores and releases an album that re -emphasizes this important page from Maestro’s life – melodically simple and emotionally warm compositions, where the sentiment alternates with virtuosity and elegance. No exaggerated statement that The Lost Latvian Radio Studio Sessions 1965/1966 There is a lasting testimony that in the archives of Latvian music, Raimonds Pauls will remain not only as the author of the audience’s favorite pop songs, but also a great jazz composer and a pianist with a special style.
It is February 23, 2025 and saxophonist Karlis Auziņš receives the Great Music Award – the highest Latvian state award in music since 1993, for outstanding jazz. Although undeniably valuable and pleasant, the date already mentioned or the statuette created by the artist Armand Jēkabsons makes Auzina a bright, interesting and quite officially prominent! – Musicians of your generation. It is a purposeful and patiently carved road for its talent from Madona to Copenhagen and back, and calmly, sometimes restrained by the world that suddenly delivers on stage or notes as a fearless performing artist and an already mature and mature composer.
With the word « fearless », this little circle ends here. Two fearless – Uri Kein and Karlis Auziņš – meet their colleagues on the same stage to be the only time in a concert with their own, different views on one of the paragraphs in the history of Latvian music. On the once created by Raimonds Paul, Aivars Tim, Harald Brando, Gunar Gailite and Alexander Pishchikov, the lesser -known jazz suits.
Tickets for the Uri Kein Trio and Karl Auziņš in a concert cycle The miracle area, 7. June In the Hanseatic Plant By executing his interpretations of Raimond Paul’s jazz suits, available Ticket paradise in the trading network. As the concert approaches, the ticket price will rise.
