From August 18 to 20, the artistic village of Koktebel in Crimea will host an international jazz festival"Koktebel Jazz Party 2017".
This year the festival "Koktebel Jazz Party 2017" will be an anniversary, it will be held for the 15th time, and the motto of the event was a line from a song by composer A. Tsfasman - "the king of Soviet jazz" - "In the same place - the same jazz."
ATTENTION! Performances by jazzmen during the first day international festival Koktebel Jazz Party has been canceled due to heavy rain and thunderstorms. All ticket holders for the evening concert on August 18th will be able to use them for the performances on August 19th or 20th. Those interested will be able to return the money for tickets on August 19 from 12 to 17 hours. You will need to have an identification document with you.
The designers chose constructivism, which received noticeable development in post-revolutionary Russia in the 20s of the 20th century, as the main motif in the design of the stage areas of the Koktebel Jazz Party 2017 festival. Guests of the anniversary jazz season will enjoy several stages, music and art programs from outstanding jazzmen of the world and the amazing energy of Koktebel. The map of Koktebel can be downloaded from the photo gallery on this page.
Participants of the festival "Koktebel Jazz Party 2017"
DAVID GOLOSHCHYOKIN, BIG BAND CONTROLLED BY SERGEY GOLOVNYA, VALERY PONOMARYOV, BRILL FAMILY, ALEXANDER ZINGER, INTERNATIONAL ENSEMBLE OF YAKOV OKUN, as well as artists from the USA, Brazil, Sweden and other countries.
Live broadcast of the festival "Koktebel Jazz Party 2017"
The live broadcast of the Koktebel Jazz Party 2017 festival in 360 mode can be watched online on this page or via the link to ALLfest.
Program of the festival "Koktebel Jazz Party 2017"
18/08
MAIN SCENE
| 19:00 | OPENING OF THE FESTIVAL |
| 19:15 | BIG BAND CONDUCTED BY SERGEY GOLOVNYA AND ANNA BUTURLINA |
| 20:30 | COLLECTIVE WITH MUSICIANS FROM THE USA, GERMANY AND KOREA |
| 22:00 | COLLECTIVE WITH MUSICIANS FROM SWITZERLAND, FRANCE, ARMENIA AND RUSSIA |
| 23:30 | DAVID GOLOSCHYOKIN WITH THE PARTICIPATION OF NIKOLAY SIZOV, GASAN BAGIROV AND YULIA KASYAN |
VOLOSHIN SCENE
| 15:00 | YOUNG TALENTS OF CRIMEA |
19/08
MAIN SCENE
| 19:00 | VALERY PONOMARYOV WITH THE MESSENGERS FROM RUSSIA PROGRAM |
| 22:00 | BRILL FAMILY |
| 23:30 | TEAM FROM GERMANY |
VOLOSHIN SCENE
| 15:00 | BIG BAND OF THE CHILDREN'S SCHOOL OF ARTS OF THE MOSCOW DEPARTMENT OF CULTURE |
20/08
MAIN SCENE
| 19:00 | COLLECTIVE WITH MUSICIANS FROM THE USA, FRANCE AND RUSSIA |
| 20:30 | COLLECTIVE WITH MUSICIANS FROM BRAZIL, SWEDEN AND RUSSIA |
| 22:00 | INTERNATIONAL ENSEMBLE YAKOV OKUN |
| 23:30 | ARTIST FROM USA |
The jazz festival in Koktebel in Crimea has been taking place since 2003. It owes its appearance to the journalist and great jazz lover Dmitry Kiselev, as well as to his comrades L. Mlinaric, V Solyanik and K. Vyshinsky. Since 2014, the festival has been officially named Koktebel Jazz Party, or simply “Jazz Party in Koktebel”.
The idea of holding a jazz music festival during the high season on the Black Sea coast, in a small resort town, turned out to be very successful. In just a few years, the fame of the event spread not only throughout the countries of Russia and the former Soviet Union, but throughout the world. Musicians come to Koktebel from Europe, America and tropical islands: all in order to immerse themselves in the magical atmosphere of jazz music for three days.
The festival takes place annually on the twentieth of August, approximately on the last weekend of the month. At this time, the velvet season begins in Crimea: the heat subsides, and a refreshing wind begins to blow from the sea. In the evenings and at night it is no longer so hot and stuffy, and the water is so warm that you can swim in it at any time of the day. During the velvet season, it is most comfortable and pleasant to spend whole days in the open air, enjoying the festival fun.
Since people from all over the world come to the Jazz Festival in Koktebel, it is difficult to get by with just one venue. Over the course of three days, several scenes operate at once: the music does not stop even after dark. Closer to night, musicians who have already given a concert program get together in an informal setting to jam (play in a free style with elements of improvisation), so jazz sounds almost around the clock.
The “main”, that is, the main stage, is located on the seashore, directly under Junge Hill. The most famous world-class musicians perform there. Thus, the jazz festival in Koktebel has already been attended by drummer Jimmy Cobb, multi-instrumentalist from Cuba Gonzalo Rubacalba, saxophonist Robert Anchipolovsky and others. Stars of the Russian music world come here every year.
The other part of the Koktebel Jazz Party takes place in the Voloshin house-museum and on several stages located along the sea. Celebrities and young bands perform at these venues. Guests of the jazz festival in Koktebel will not be bored - you need to have time to move from one stage to another in order to capture as much interesting stuff as possible.
In addition to festival events, jazz lovers have time to find friends from all over Russia and the planet, meet like-minded people and even form their own group. Surprisingly, each Koktebel Jazz Festival is different from the other - perhaps that is why thousands of Russians and foreign guests are looking forward to it.
Date of the jazz festival in Koktebel in 2020
This year there will be 5 stage venues, one of them, traditionally, will be located in the Voloshin house-museum at the address: st. Morskaya, 43. Here famous musicians will give performances and conduct art history programs.
Despite the fact that it is a weekday, thousands of people will come to the event.
The main stage will be set to Black Sea coast under Junge Hill, its address is Morskaya, 87. The largest crowd will gather here, and perhaps a rather large queue will line up at the local ticket office.
Tickets for the festival in Koktebel 2020
To avoid standing in line at the box office, you can purchase tickets for the Koktebel Jazz Festival online in advance, on the official website of the event organizer. Sales have already started, current prices are indicated there. Ticket offices will also operate at all festival sites, and you can use them directly on site.
The jazz festival in Koktebel in 2020 is covered by leading Russian media, and the official organizer and sponsor is the Red Square media group.
How to get to Koktebel for the jazz festival
Intercity buses run to the city of Koktebel across Crimea: they depart from bus stations several times a day. Also, the festival organizers will launch a transfer Simferopol - Koktebel - Simferopol for the duration of the event. The exact schedule can be found on the official website of the Koktebel Jazz Party.
To get to Koktebel on your own, you need to take the P29 highway. It can be reached from the side of Kerch - along the E97 highway, and from Simferopol - along the P23 highway. You can use taxi services if you are traveling nearby (for example, from Feodosia or Sudak): Maxim, Transfly, Crimea Taxi, etc. An application from Yandex also operates in Crimea. Taxi.
People usually travel around Koktebel itself on foot, since the town is very small. The path to the coastline from the most remote places of the city will take no more than 20 minutes on foot. If necessary, you can take a taxi or rent a bicycle.
Where the Koktebel jazz festival takes place, you will hear from afar - from the very first day, the catchy sounds of music scatter throughout the town. Go in their direction and you will never go wrong. For convenience, the organizers post signs throughout Koktebel, so you can get to any stage without a map or navigator.
Video about the jazz festival in Koktebel, Crimea
On the evening of August 25, on the very shore of the Black Sea, in the Crimean village of Koktebel, spectators whistled, roared and stood applauding the last jazz chords. completed the blues band from the USA of the famous musician Selwyn Birchwood.
At the 17th Jazz Festival this year there were many surprises and surprises - a performance in a somewhat unusual style for her by rock singer Yulia Chicherina with saxophonist Sergei Golovnya, a short performance by Yuri Bashmet, fiery rhythms of many famous Russian and foreign bands - especially the six-time Grammy Award winner, legendary trumpeter Randy Brecker.
He came to KJP for just one day, and after a couple of days he left a comment on Facebook in which he wrote about his impressions of the festival - the praise of such a famous musician is worth a lot, noted those who noticed these words of Brekker on the social network.
There was also some surprise from the performance of the famous jazz pianist Oleg Starikov, who, shortly before the start of the festival, broke his arm and played with one hand. But, as the musician said at a press conference, this is a challenge for him, and he accepted it.
The audience also fell in love with Selwyn Birchwood, a liberated American who came to a press conference and took off his shoes, leaving him barefoot.
He told reporters that he accepted the invitation to the festival in Crimea without hesitation, immediately, although he had never been to Russia before.
Birchwood admitted that if it weren’t for the music, he would hardly have ended up in this place, but when he climbed Yunge Hill (where the main stage of the festival was located), he was delighted by the landscapes of Koktebel. And he, in turn, delighted the listeners and fans who stood in line to take a joint photo with him.
The special atmosphere of the festival, when jazz sounds for three days not only in the evening, but also during the day - during musicians' rehearsals, so that people on the beach can listen to them and even dance to the fiery rhythms, was noted not only by foreign musicians.
An indicator of interest in KJP is a full house in the stalls, where tickets were completely sold out for all days of the festival, and some bought them a month in advance.
Those who wanted to listen to jazz in a more relaxed atmosphere could do so in the open area, sitting on cozy sofas near cafes and drink stalls.
One of the spectators said that she came here with her American husband specifically for KJP, and they were so fascinated by Crimea that they decided to stay here for several months.
However, during the day jazz was heard at other festival venues - the Voloshin stage, at the Tavrida festival, at the Koktebel water park and at the local dolphinarium.
As per tradition, saxophonist and art director of the festival Sergei Golovnya performed there, and dolphins and fur seals showed their tricks to jazz melodies.
But, of course, the main action took place at night - and even after the end of the concert. Almost until five in the morning, the musicians who performed on the main stage played traditional jazz jams in a local restaurant.
This was the case on the last night of the festival, and here too there were some surprises: suddenly the jazzmen “gave their word” to the rapper. And this “passing of the baton” was not without reason: in just a couple of days, here in Koktebel, the first festival of youth rap culture and music in Crimea will be held, initiated by the “founding father” of the Koktebel Jazz Party, Dmitry Kiselev.
Well, you can come to Koktebel for jazz again in a year - on the last weekend of August 2020, stars not only from Russia, but also from abroad will come here again.
Groups from Russia, China, India and Armenia performed at several venues. Performers from the USA and Great Britain were also not afraid of sanctions.
Indian group Rajeev Raja Combine for the first time on the stage of Koktebel Photo: Vitaly PARUBOV
Politics is politics, religion is religion, and we make music and came here to play music,” said American vocalist Denise King.
Koktebel is a wonderful place, there is a wonderful audience here, and we will be very pleased to play on stage by the sea to its accompaniment,” says saxophonist Rick Margitza, leader of the international group Rick Margitza.
According to the foreign members of the ensemble, they are visiting Crimea for the first time and are delighted with the festival.
It's a special place - a stage right on the beach, and a great opportunity to meet so many famous jazz musicians. We like the atmosphere,” said double bassist Sylvan Romano.
According to pianist, composer and jazzman Vahagn Hayrapetyan, “in terms of the composition of the participants, Koktebel Jazz Party is the jazziest festival in the post-Soviet space.”
Russian trumpeter Vitaly Golovnev invited New York jazz players to play with him on stage. According to him, in the New York All Stars team, “there were no questions or problems regarding status in political and cultural aspects.”
Our festival is made up of people who are involved in jazz, not politics, and we are very grateful to them for this,” emphasizes the famous founder of the festival Russian journalist Dmitry Kiselev.
Many performers liked the small resort village of Koktebel. True, we were a little confused by the potholes and traffic jams.
Everything is great in Koktebel! A small problem is traffic, but we are from New York, we are not used to this. I have been to Russia many times and every time I notice how much better the country is getting. I am impressed by the continuous development of infrastructure. The people here are wonderful, welcoming and friendly. “I’m glad to be here and hope to come here again,” says renowned jazz tenor saxophonist Don Braden, who performs with American jazz star Vanessa Rubin.
Vanessa came to Crimea for the first time.
We arrived in the evening, it was already dark and nothing could be seen. Today, when the sun rose, I was pleasantly surprised by what I saw. As soon as we’re free, we’ll go swimming in the sea, because this is just a wonderful place,” the singer told reporters.
Chinese musicians - the Segar Band, performing fusion music - charmed all the spectators. It includes one of the most famous jazz musicians China Xifeng Cedar Chin. Filipino drummer Domenic Batista played drums. Zhang Xiongguan played the trumpet. The band's bassist, Huang Yong, is the founder of the Nine Gates International Jazz Festival.
The Audience Award went to the British band Incognito. The musicians received the loudest applause. Before the concert, the band's founder and guitarist Jean-Paul Monique said that all the performers are people from different countries, different cultures and religions, but they are united by music.
One of the most eminent and famous Russian jazzmen, pianist Yakov Okun, has been performing at the festival for the fifth year.
As a child, I traveled to Crimea with my parents. I don’t remember these trips well, but the important thing is that it was with the whole family. Now I feel at home here,” enthuses Okun.
This year, the famous pianist assembled a new ensemble, which included the famous trumpeter, student of Louis Armstrong, Eddie Henderson and vocalist Deborah Brown.
It was very easy for us to play together. Jazz is an international language, so we can have a musical dialogue. You only need to play with a person once to understand him,” Henderson said.
Next year the festival will also take place at the end of August.
We are organizing the Koktebel Jazz Party with great faith that Koktebel will develop, and someday we will be able to hold a jazz parade along the embankment. We really want there to be a beautiful embankment here,” said Dmitry Kiselev.
Help "KP"
Koktebel Jazz Party was first held in 2003. This was the initiative of journalist Dmitry Kiselev. The festival got its name thanks to its venue - the resort village of Koktebel. Now the event has reached the international level. The performers performed on the Main and Voloshinskaya stages of the resort village. Also, performances by jazzmen took place in the Koktebel dolphinarium, water park and in the large arena in Artek.
The fifteenth Koktebel Jazz Festival will be held in Chernomorsk on August 24-27. The history of the Koktebel Jazz Festival began on the Black Sea shore 15 years ago. During this time, the festival managed to host about 3 thousand musicians and at least 500 thousand visitors.
"DakhaBrakha" played their first big concerts here. The Hardkiss, Jamala and other popular artists who then became a discovery for the festival public. Nino Katamadze, “Aquarium”, “Lyapis Trubetskoy” and dozens of other stars presented their new programs at the Koktebel Jazz Festival over the years.
Over the years of the festival, its stages have hosted the best musicians from more than 45 countries. Among them: Stanley Clarke, Billy Cobham, Alexey Kozlov, Erik Truffaz, Richard Galliano, The Cinematic Orchestra, Bonobo, De-Phazz, Parov Stelar, Shibusashirazu Orchestra, Gus-Gus, Kadebostany, Submotion Orchestra, Bjorn Barge, Goran Bregovic, Patrick Wolf, The Bad Plus and many others.
Koktebel Jazz Festival has become a meeting place and a place of power for thousands creative people from different parts of Ukraine, Russia, Belarus and European countries.
Since 2014, the Koktebel Jazz Festival has changed its location twice and last year finally found a new place in the sun - in the city of Chernomorsk, Odessa region.
The diversity of musical genres and artists presented at the festival has always been one of the main differences of the Koktebel Jazz Festival. And it was multi-format that became the main concept of the Koktebel Jazz Festival 2017. This year the number of festival stages will increase to five, and the number of musical genres presented at the festival will increase even more. This means even more music, even more art, even more new discoveries, interesting festival stories and new friends.
Also this year, Koktebel Jazz Festival will present a special program dedicated to the celebration of Independence Day of Ukraine. Therefore, August 24 is officially declared the Day of Ukrainian Music at the festival!
And most importantly, from August 24 to 27, the Koktebel Jazz Festival loudly and cheerfully celebrates its fifteenth anniversary and invites old and new friends to spend four unforgettable weekends on the seashore!
Participants of the Koktebel Jazz Festival in 2017:
Nu Jazz Stage
Shantel– the king of the Balkan dance floor, the author of the soundtrack to the comedy “Borat” and the super hit Disko Partizani is lucky to main stage special program SHANTOLOGY 30 years. Remember how we danced in Koktebel to the fiery rhythms of Goran Bregovic? Shantel and his Bucovina Club Orkestar promise no less scope. It’s not for nothing that their unbridled discos using remixes of Balkan rhythms and gypsy brass music are famous throughout the world.
The long-awaited guests of the festival will also be controversial people from Foggy Albion, one of the best live teams in the world - the legendary Asian Dub Foundation. For more than twenty years now, their killer rap-reggae has raised the sharpest social problems. During their long and productive career, Asian Dub Foundation have shared the stage with Rage Against The Machine, The Cure and Radiohead. They performed at the world's best festivals, and in August 2017 they will perform in Ukraine for the first time.
Asian Dub Foundation
Melancholy romantic from Sweden Jay-Jay Johanson I had already been on the stage of the Koktebel Jazz Festival in Kyiv, after which I decided to return to it again - this time on the seashore. The musical style in which Jay-Jay Johanson works combines elements of jazz, trip-hop and electronic music. His tracks, without exaggeration, are the perfect soundtrack to a warm day by the sea.
Jay-Jay Johanson
Red Snapper and "Car Drivers"– long-time friends of the Koktebel Jazz Festival. Both teams have already performed at the festival in the past.
The public liked their concerts so much that this year the organizing committee decided to invite the groups to the Nu Jazz Stage again. Both teams promised special festival surprises and completely new compositions, which they will exclusively present to the guests of the Koktebel Jazz Festival.
His long-time friend, the frontman of the legendary German band, will definitely come to visit the anniversary festival. De Phazz and founder of a solo project - Karl Frierson. This year Karl will become a Special Guest of the festival, and his performance will help listeners discover this artist from a completely different side.
Karl Frierson
And finally, one of the main surprises of 2017 will be the return TNMK Jazzy– a special project of the group “Tank on the Congo Maidan”, the idea of which was born and first presented at the festival in 2004-2005. You will hear original TNMK songs played in special jazz arrangements.
TNMK Jazzy
Open Stage
One of the most important stages of the festival will continue to reveal new names. This year, more than 200 musicians from Ukraine, Russia, Belarus, Poland, Italy, Spain and even the UK applied for participation in the Open Stage program. The expert council of the Koktebel Jazz Festival has already processed all the submitted materials and in early August will announce the names of the lucky ones who will be able to play in front of the festival audience. The stage will operate during the daytime and entry will be free.
Campfire Stage
New this year is an acoustic stage located in a tent city. Here, hiding from the scorching southern sun, you can enjoy the performances of artists who decided to present songs in their most honest, acoustic sound. It is on such stages that unexpected duets and interesting improvisations are most often born.
Jazz and Sea
Jazz stage of the festival under the direction of Alexey Kogan. It will feature performances by Nazgul Shukaev, Roman Kolyada and the Usein Bekirov trio. The author’s project “Jazz Stories” from Jazz in Kiev and Alexey Kogan will also be presented here - short essays about music, people, meetings and impressions. Of course, it is impossible to talk about music without it. The stories will be accompanied by a live performance by jazz performers Jazz in Kiev Band, and listeners will become a full part of the performance.
Special Stage
A multi-format location that appeared at the festival several years ago and operates non-stop. After all the day's activities and concerts are completed on the Nu Jazz Stage, the best Ukrainian DJs and special guests will play their sets here: Shustov, Mishukoff, Super dj Mavr, Pogany dj Fozzy and others.
ARTISHOCK
The famous art festival, which has already become an integral part of the Koktebel Jazz Festival, is also celebrating its small anniversary- fifth anniversary. ARTISHOCK touches all types and genres contemporary art from various types art to literature and independent cinema. The theme of this year's festival is Wednesday, as social phenomenon, which can be considered from different angles (habitat, cultural environment, media environment, art environment, etc.). The program includes film screenings, lectures, open interviews and discussions, exhibitions and art performances, filming in docu-fiction format.
Also, the fifteenth anniversary Koktebel Jazz Festival includes performances by MARU, MANSOUND, Katya Chilly Group, Viviene Mort, MAMARIKA, The Hypnotunez, Antikvariniai Kaspirovskio Dantys and other musicians you know.
Eco-volunteers will traditionally help the festival take place. The environmental initiative “EcoversusEgo” has been implemented at the Koktebel Jazz Festival for more than 10 years. By becoming part of the eco-program, you can not only get a ticket to all days of the festival and take part in exciting eco-events, but also, together with the organizers, make the holiday even better.
In order for every guest of the Koktebel Jazz Festival 2017 to remember it, Leo Burnett will create a film. A movie whose main characters will be music, the sea and all the friends of the festival.