On February 5, a press conference of
Tbilisi 22nd Jazz Festival was held at TBC Gallery. The event was
led by Deputy Minister of Education, Science, Culture and Sport of Georgia,
Levan Kharatishvili, deputy Mayor of Tbilisi Sophio Khuntsaria, director of
Eastern Promotions - Giorgi Kereselidze and TBC Bank Marketing Director Nino
Egadze.
Owing to the support of the Ministry of
Education, Science, Culture and Sport of Georgia and Tbilisi City Hall, from
February 28 to March 2, Tbilisi will host the 22nd Jazz Festival.
This year's festival is the headlined by the legendary American jazz guitarist
- Pat Metheny, a 20 Grammy Award winner. Tbilisi Symphony Orchestra headed by
Vakhtang Kakhidze, Tbilisi City Hall's Big Band and Students of Jazz Faculty of
Conservatoire, led by Revaz Kiknadze will also participate in the festival.
Tbilisi 22nd Jazz Festival
will open on February 28, Tbilisi Big-Band & New Jazz Generation will
perform their new project at the Grand Hall of Conservatoire. It will be a
concert where old generation will meet new and musicians of various generations
will offer jazz-compositions together.
The festival will be closed on March 2
at Tbilisi concert hall, by a joint concert of Pete Methin and Tbilisi
Symphonic Orchestra. Within the scope of this unique project, legendary Pat
Metheny will present his latest project to the audience - Missouri Skies and
More.
Festival sponsor and partner
organizations: Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sport of Georgia,
Tbilisi City Hall; Festival presenter: Eastern Promotion, TBC Bank.
The 20 Grammy Awards winner, the most
original jazz guitarist of our time, - the legendary Pat Metheny is the only
artist in the history of music that has won in 10 different categories of
Grammy.
The music performed by him is difficult
to attribute to any particular course, but it is clear that Metheny is a unique
performer who crosses the boundaries of jazz. The jazz-guitarist belongs to the
number of rare musicians who are allowed to conduct experiments to perform the
music they want.
Pat Metheny started playing Guitar only
at the age of 13. The talented musician received education in Mayam and Berkley
universities. His debut recording was released in 1974 with Paul Blaise and
Jaco Pastouri. 1974-77 years were the musician’s most important and prominent
times of his career.
Pat Metheny constantly avoided the
predictable music and never stopped experimenting. It is important that the
individual projects of the Metheny; For example, in 1980, the musician released
the album "80/81" in cooperation with Diego Redman, Mike Breaker and
Charlie Heden. Pat’s individual projects also coincides with a joint record
with Sonny Rollin, accompanied by Herbie Hancock's Quartet in 1990, with the
release of a trio album with Dave Holland and Roy Hayne and collaborations with
Joshua Redman.
Jazz-guitarist has released a number of
albums throughout his career and all of them highlight their uniqueness. For
example, the musical album, released in 1994, called "Zero Tolerance for
Silence", was the name of the most creative performer. Compositions
recorded in "ECM RECORDS" made it clear that Pat Metheny is a world
class musician with his own performance.
Pat Metheny’s one of the most famous
albums is Beyond the Missouri Sky (Short Stories), which was released in 1997
with Charlie Heiden. It was the album that gave Metheny his first Grammy.
Beyond the Missouri Sky (Short Stories) is considered one of the most successful
projects in the career of the musician.