VILNIUS MAMA JAZZ 2023

MAIN STAGE
MARILYN MAZUR SOLO (Denmark)
BEADY BELLE (Norway)
MARIA FAUST JAZZ CATASTROPHE: 4TH MUTATION (Denmark)
GRAHAM COSTELLO STRATA (United Kingdom)
TIGER TRIO / Nicole Mitchell, Joelle Leandre, Myra Melford (USA, France)
EURORADIO JAZZ ORCHESTRA, leader Jievaras Jasinskis
VLADIMIR TARASOV’S AUSTRIAN CIRCLE (Lithuania, Austria)
AIRELLE BESSON TRY! (France)

SHOWCASE STAGE
TRIO NEDA / LABUTIS / BANYS (Lithuania)
SNUS (Lithuania, Denmark)
KINVA (Ukraine)
WEIRD UGLY FISH / KEISTA BJAURI ŽUVIS (Lithuania)
VERONIKA CHICHI QUINTET (Lithuania)
BROKEN GLASS 4TET (Lithuania)
KJ COLLECTIVE (Lithuania)
ARKADY GOTESMAN’S project PRAYER (Lithuania)

CONFERENCE
Weightlessness

Welcome speech / Daina Urbanavičienė, Vice-Minister of Culture of the Republic of Lithuania

Presentation: What will humans be like in the future?
Kristupas Sabolius, Philosopher

Presentation: Gender inequality in the cultural sector: what do the numbers tell us and how to achieve change?
Kamilė Čelutkaitė, EU programme “Creative Europe”, Head of the office in Lithuania

Discusion: What have we learned from the war in Ukraine?
Valeriu Culea, Jazz’n Chișinău International Festival, Ken Waxman, JazzWord, Rozana Mihalache, Green Hours Jazz Cafe, moderated by Rasa Murauskaitė-Juškienė, Music Critic

Discussion: Jazz magazine in the XXI century – mission possible?
Pawel Brodowski, Jazz Forum, Rasa Murauskaitė-Juškienė, Music Critic

VISUAL ART
Aidas Bareikis ACCIDIOUS / „Lewben Art Foundation“ Collection

Festival Photography Exhibition
RETROSPECTIVE 2002-2022, author Dainius Labutis

VILNIUS MAMA JAZZ 2022

MAIN STAGE
RYMDEN (Norway, Sweden)
GHOST-NOTE (USA)
VLADIMIRAS ČEKASINAS / 75 (Lithuania)
GREGORY PRIVAT (France)
BEN WENDEL GROUP (USA)
WE STAND WITH UKRAINE / Vladimiras Tarasovas, Volodymyr Solianyk, Mark Tokar (Lithuania, Ukraine)
ANTHONY BRAXTON SAXOPHONE QUARTET (USA)

SHOWCASE STAGE
John’s Shower Band
Synthetika
Laivo Troupe
DUO Vytautas Labutis / Andrius Balachovičius
21st Century Quintet
Lietuvos jaunimo džiazo orkestras
Veronika ChiChi Quintet
JUZT
Quark Effect

CONFERENCE
Coping with the Inevitable
Speaker Tomas Šinkūnas
Discussion / Lessons from Closed Venues
Moderator Rasa Murauskaitė
Is Radio Still Relevant in the Age of Spotify?
Speaker Giedrius Masalskis

MASTER CLASS
Lecture
Navigating the systems and the Unknown in the Music of Anthony Braxton
Lecturer Prof. James Fei

VISUAL ARTS

“Lewben Art Foundation” Exhibition:

“Disarm (Violin IX)”
Author Pedro Reyes

“Fountain”
Author Žilvinas Kempinas

Festival Photography Exhibition
RETROSPECTIVE 2022-2021 by Dainius Labutis

MOTION MOVIE
BOLERO
by Vladimiras Čekasinas

VILNIUS MAMA JAZZ 2021

MAIN STAGE
AVISHAI COHEN TRIO (Israel)
LARS DANIELSSON & LIBERETTO „Play Cloudland“ (Sweden, France)
VLADIMIRAS ČEKASINAS TRIO (Lithuania)
EMMA-JEAN THACKRAY (United Kingdom)
VLADIMIRAS TARASOVAS QUARTET (Lithuania)

SHOWCASE STAGE
SynthEtika
The Honkin’ Dudes Brass Band
Augustė Raguotytė Quartet
JUZT
Tango in Jazz
21st Century Quintet

VILNIUS MAMA JAZZ MARGINS
“Who is interested in jazz today?”
Moderator Julijus Grickevičius

VISUAL ARTS
“Lewben Art Foundation” presents YETI (or Snowman), a sculptural object by Tomas Daukša
Festival Photography Exhibition “RETROSPECTIVE 2002 – 2021” by Dainius Labutis

Vilnius Mama Jazz 2020

(May 27 – 29, 2021)

MAIN STAGE
SHINKARENKO JAZZ 4 N
PETRAS GENIUŠAS and LIUDAS MOCKŪNAS “Vers la Flamme”
MARIJUS ALEKSA and PAULIUS KILBAUSKAS
VLADIMIRAS ČEKASINAS, VLADIMIRAS TARASOVAS and ANNA CHEKASINA “Fantasies Based on Eleven Nietzsche’s Strophes”
PETRAS VYŠNIAUSKAS, VYTAUTAS LABUTIS, EUGENIJUS KANEVIČIUS, ARKADIJUS GOTESMANAS “Tost”

SHOWCASE STAGE
Katarsis4
Leonardas Pilkauskas ‚Birthday’ Septet feat. Kotryna Janutaitė
SynthEtika (LT, LV)
Castor Stetson
Mindaugas Stumbras Quintet
JUZT
21st Century Quintet (LT, LV)

VILNIUS MAMA JAZZ MARGINS
Let‘s Talk with Petras Vyšniauskas
Let‘s Talk with Vladimiras Tarasovas
Interviewed by Julijus Grickevičius

VISUAL ARTS
Photography Exhibition
Captured by Jazz, by Vytautas Suslavičius

Vilnius Mama Jazz 2019

MAIN STAGE
DJANGO BATES’ BELOVÈD (United Kingdom)
ODED TZUR QUARTET (Greece, Israel, USA)
THE COMET IS COMING (United Kingdom)
GOGO PENGUIN (United Kingdom)
PORTICO QUARTET (United Kingdom)
VLADIMIRAS ČEKASINAS, VLADIMIRAS TARASOVAS (Lithuania)
FLAT EARTH SOCIETY (Belgium)
THE BAD PLUS (USA)

SHOWCASE STAGE (Lithuania)
Trio Trys
Leonardas Pilkauskas “Birthday” Septet
Castor Stetson
Brave Noises
Veronika ChiChi “Singer of a 1000 Faces”
Tiesulas
Aureolė / Nimbus
Maksimovicz / Golovanov “Thousand Seconds of our Life”
Neda / Labutis / Banys
“Dialogue”. Deniss Pashkevich & Arkadij Gotesman
Oak Birches & Klaipėda Jazz Orchestra (leader Kęstutis Sova)
Dovydas Stalmokas Group LOW BLOW
Cinamono

CONFERENCE
The Egyptian / Arab experience in Jazz in the 20th century
Presented by Amro Salah, Cairo Jazz Festival, Egypt
Festival as a creator and an inspiration for Estonian artists
Presented by Anne Erm, Jazz Kaar, Estonia
Large and small jazz scenes in Lithuania
Presented by Julijus Grickevičius, Lithuanian Jazz Federation

VILNIUS MAMA JAZZ MARGINS
(panel discussion)
Who told Louis Armstrong about Vilkija? Litvaks in the Jazz Culture
Moderator Viktoras Bachmetjevas

VISUAL ARTS
ECHO by Matas Janušonis

CINEMA
Chasing Trane: The John Coltrane Documentary

Vilnius Mama Jazz 2018

ANDY SHEPPARD with ESPEN ERIKSEN TRIO (UK, Norway)
Lithuanian JJazz Ensemble (Lithuania)
GORILLA MASK (Canada, Germany)
NILS PETTER MOLVÆR (Norway)
DOMAS ŽEROMSKAS QUINTET (Lithuania)
NOW VS NOW (USA)
MATHIAS EICK QUINTET (Norway)
DEVA MAHAL (USA)

VILNIUS MAMA JAZZ MARGINS
(panel discussion)
Planning a festival programme. How to retain your ID?
Moderator Laima Slepkovaitė
What it takes for the idea to meet its patron?
Moderator Julijus Grickevičius

VISUAL ARTS
DAINIUS LABUTIS. RETROSPECTIVE
PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION

Vilnius Mama Jazz 2017

MAIN STAGE
GET THE BLESSING (United Kingdom)
JAGA JAZZIST (Norway)
JONES JONES (USA, Lithuania)
VLADIMIR TARASOV & LITHUANIAN ART ORCHESTRA feat. Vladimir Chekasin (Lithuania)
NEIL COWLEY TRIO (United Kingdom)
PHAROAH SANDERS QUARTET feat. William Henderson, Oli Hayhurst and Gene Calderazzo (USA)

SHOWCASE STAGE
Quite Sublime (Lithuania, Sweden, Switzerland, Germany)
JazzyBit (Romania)
Lorenzo De Finti Quartet (Italy)
Very Cool People (Latvia)
Quantum Trio (Poland)
Dogon (Switzerland)
Amazonas (Sweden)
H. Soror (Ukraine)
The Bodhisattwa Trio (India)
Paweł Kaczmarczyk Audiofeeling Band (Poland)
Naked (Serbia)
Ku.Piece (Lithuania)
Shinkarenko Jazz 4N (Lithuania)
Džiazlaif (Lithuania)
Mockūnas, Mikalkėnas, Berre (Lithuania, Norway)
D. Jurevičius group (Lithuania)
Liutauras Janušaitis Quintet (Lithuania)

VILNIUS MAMA JAZZ MARGINS (panel discussion)
Art economics: how do we buy and what do we pay for. Moderator Rūta Vainienė
Estonian case – why success? Moderator Arnoldas Pranckevičius
Silk road for jazz: how to conquer the East? Moderator Agnė Biliūnaitė
Festivals vs. daily life: are the festivals the oligarchs of the jazz industry? Moderator Kristijonas Bartoševičius
Broadcast or die: the future and forecast of publishing Moderator Daina Dubauskaitė
When is the birthday of Lithuanian jazz? Moderator Julijus Grickevičius

VISUAL ARTS
Algimantas Aleksandravičius. Through the hit note.
Vytautas Suslavičius. Imprisoned in Jazz.

Vilnius Mama Jazz 2016

MAIN STAGE

Jacques Kuba Seguin (Canada)

Richardas Banys (Lithuania)

China Moses (Lithuania, USA, UK)

PHRONESIS (UK, Denmark, Norway)

OREGON (USA)

CHASSOL (France)

The Ambrose Akinmusire Quartet (USA)

SHOWCASE STAGE

Songs I Like (Switzerland)

IORI (Germany)

Naima (Spain)

Bete Smate (Lithuania)

iTrio (Switzerland)

Safran (Germany)

Niogi (Israel)

Mirko Pedrotti Quintet (Italy)

Vytautas Labutis & Silent Blast (Lithuania)

Hellmüller Trio (Switzerland)

Başak Yavuz Quartet (Turkey)

LOBBY STAGE

Armed Sheep Doom Cloud Prank (Lithuania)

VILNIUS MAMA JAZZ MARGINS (panel discussion)

VISUAL ARTS

Dainius Labutis. Retrospective.

Vytautas Suslavičius. Imprisoned in Jazz.

Vilnius Mama Jazz 2015

MAIN STAGE

Leonid Šinkarenko Jazz 4N (Lithuania)

Soweto Kinch (Great Britain)

Marius Neset Quartet (Norway, Great Britain)

Vladimir Tarasov & Lithuanian Art Orchestra | Sound’s Tapestry, part 2 (Lithuania)

Marc Ducret & Liudas Mockūnas (Lithuania, France)

SONS OF KEMET (Great Britain)

Chistian Scott aTunde Adjuah (USA)

Avishai Cohen Trio | From Darkness (Israel)

LOBBY STAGE

Vytautas Labutis & Silent Blast (Lithuania)

Donatas Petreikis Quartet (Lithuania)

Leonardas Pilkauskas Sassy Connections (Lithuania, Latvia)

New Dress (Lithuania, Germany)

Agatos langai (Lithuania)

Broma Jazz Orchestra (lead. Vitalis Vidikas) (Lithuania)

Made in 234 (Lithuania)

N-Atomic Trio (Lithuania)

Brave Noises (Lithuania)

Inception (Lithuania)

MorganFreeman (Lithuania, Germany, USA)

Juozas Kuraitis Quartet (Lithuania)

LMTA Bigbendas (lead. Tomas Dičiūnas) (Lithuania)

Vilnius Mama Jazz 2014

The Terence Blanchard E-Collective (USA)

Steve Coleman And Five Elements (USA)

Kneebody (USA)

Mark Turner Quartet (USA)

Vein Feat. Greg Osby (Switzerland, USA)

Vladimir Tarasov And Lithuanian Art Orchestra “Gobelenas” (Lithuania)

Hubert Dupont Jasmim (France)

Marcus Pesonen Hendectet (Denmark, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Norway, Russia, Finland, Sweden, Germany)

Sheep Got Waxed (Lithuania)

Pae Kollektiiv (Estonia)

Ąžuolas Paulauskas. “Project Evolution” (Lithuania)

LEONARDAS PILKAUSKAS And PAULIUS VOLKOVAS – D’PENDENT ENSEMBLE (Lithuania)

Bigband of the Lithuanian Music and Theatre Academy (leaded by DMITRIJUS GOLOVANOVAS) (Lithuania)

Made In 234 (Lithuania)

JAZZ DUO (LEONARDAS PILKAUSKAS And JURGIS BALTRUŠAITIS) (Lithuania)

Reinless (Lithuania)

National Defence Volunteer Forces Bigband, leaded by Capt. Ričardas Čiupkovas

Vilnius Mama Jazz 2013

VOLCAN: Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Horacio El Negro Hernandez, Armando Gola & Anthony Carrillo (CUBA, USA)

Miguel Zenon Quartet (USA)

Ernie Watts Quartet (USA)

Neda & Labutis Jazz Quartet (LITHUANIA)

Laureate Of The International Piano Competition Jazz Improvizacija

Arve Henriksen, Jan Bang & Stian Westerhus (NORWAY)

Snarky Puppy (USA)

Fun Clock (LITHUANIA)

Soul Moustache (LITHUANIA)

The Proof Quartet (LITHUANIA)

Arvydas Joffe Jazz Quartet (LITHUANIA)

Vilnius Mama Jazz 2012

Ravi Coltrane Quartet (USA)

Chris Dave And The Drumhedz (USA)

Lieder Leaders (Azerbaijan)

Wallace Roney Quintet (USA)

State Of Monc (The Netherlands)

François Corneloup Trio (France)

John Albert Group (Italy, Lithuania, Germany)

Kaarna (Finland)

Viktorija Pilatovič Quintet (Greece, USA, Cameroon, Lithuania, Nigeria)

Domas Aleksa & D‘Orange (Lithuania)

Dmitrij Golovanov (Lithuania)

Vilnius Mama Jazz 2011

ROBERT GLASPER EXPERIMENT (USA)

Marijus Sūdžius, (Lithuania)

David Binney Group (USA)

Emile Parisien Quartet (France)

Billy Childs Jazz Chamber Ensemble (USA)

InSearch (Lithuania)

OZMA (France)

Jay Phelps Quintet (Great Britain)

Vilnius Mama Jazz 2010

GERALD CLAYTON TRIO (USA)

ROBERT GLASPER TRIO (USA)

Jazz Quartet: Elias Stemeseder, Max Santner, Vytautas Labutis, Eugenijus Kanevičius (Lithuania, Austria)

Artūras Anusauskas (Lithuania)

JING’A’LING (Lithuania)

Sylvain Cathala PRINT (France)

Dave Samuels – Nikolai Panov Alliance. Organik band (USA)

Eivind Aarset “Sonic Codex 4tet” (Norway)

Jan MAKSIMOWICH GROUP (Lithuania)

Jay PHELPS – Sebastian WEISS – Robin ARISTORENAS – Rick JAMES – Marijus ALEKSA (Great Britain, Lithuania)

Vilnius Mama Jazz 2009

Yaron Herman Trio, (France)

Louis Sclavis Trio (France)

La Campagnie des Musiques à Ouïr (France)

Grant Windsor, Femi Temowo, Marijus Aleksa (Great Britain, Lithuania)

Melosolex (France)

OZMA (France)

CRAM (Netherlands)

Rosario Giuliani Quintet (Italy)

Andrea Pellegrini, Riccardo Ienna, Vytautas Labutis, Eugenijus Kanevičius (Italy, Lithuania)

Beady Belle (Norway)

Lars Danielsson & Leszek Możdżer (Sweden, Poland)

Petras Vyšniauskas and his students (Lithuania)

Billy Cobham Band (USA, Europe)

VILNIUS – EUROPEAN CAPITAL OF CULTURE 2009 / EUROPEAN JAZZ

QU5 (Lithuania)

ATOMIC (Norway, Sweden)

Sun Trio (Finland)

Neda & Artūras Anusauskas Quartet (Lithuania)

BrassBastardz (Lithuania)

Aleksa Brothers Group (Lithuania)

VILNIUS MAMA JAZZ 2008

Bill Frisell takes on Keaton, Morrison & Woodring (USA)

INTERCONTINENTAL – The Sibongile Khumalo & Jack DeJohnette project (USA, South Africa, Great Britain)

Chick Corea & John McLaughlin FIVE PEACE BAND (USA)

Shinkarenko JAZZ 4 (Lithuania)

Bobby Previte & The New Bump (USA)

Kindergarten (France)

Erik Truffaz Quartet (France)

Miroslav Vitous & Franco Ambrosetti Trio and Symphonic Sound (Switzerland, Italy)

Gone With Jazz (Lithuania)

VILNIUS CITY JAZZ 2007

THE BAD PLUS (USA)

Choir “BREVIS” (leader G. Venislovas) & Jazz Trio (Lithuania)

THE SHIN (Georgia)

EMPIRICAL (Great Britain)

OZMA (France)

Victor Bailey Group (USA)

The LEADERS (USA)

Peter Brötzmann & Joe McPhee Quartet (Germany, USA)

Chris Minh Doky & The Nomads (USA)

Artūras Anusauskas Jazz Quartet (Lithuania)

John Scofield Trio Plus Horns (USA)

Anna Koroliova Quartet (Russia)

VILNIUS CITY JAZZ 2006

Junction (Lithuania)

Denis Rollins’ Badbone & Co (Great Britain)

Chris Potter Trio (USA)

Philip Hamilton Project (USA, Lithuania)

OZMA (France)

The Five Corners Quintet (Finland)

Selen Gulun Trio (Turkey)

Wayne Shorter Quartet (USA)

V. Chekasin Old Friends Jam (Lithuania)

Bill Evans “Soulgrass” (USA)

VILNIUS CITY JAZZ 2005

Kerem Görsev Trio, Turkija / Turkey

Gilad Atzmon Group, Didžioji Britanija / Great Britain

Johnny La Marama, JAV, Suomija, Vokietija / USA, Finland, Germany

Izaline Calister Krioyo, Nyderlandai / Netherlands

Dee Dee Bridgewater J’ai deux amours, JAV / USA

Vytautas Labutis Quartet, Lietuva / Lithuania

Quelques Fiers Mongols, Prancūzija / France

Puzzle Music, Lietuva / Lithuania

Dave Douglas & Keystone, JAV / USA

Hear Hear! Suomija / Finland

Medeski Martin & Wood, JAV / USA

Vilnius Mama Jazz 2004

Tomas Kutavičius (Lithuania)

Bianca Morales and The Pori Jazz All Stars band (Finland)

Ronald Snijders Band, West by West (Netherlands)

Tjant (Faroes Islands)

Yggdrasil (Faroe Islands)

Christian McBride Band (USA)

Leonid Shinkarenko project Remenbrance, featuring Eve Cornelious and Leonid Vintskevich (Lithuania, USA, Russia)

Jean – Luc Ponty (France)

Traffic Quartet (Lithuania)

La Campaqnie des Musiques Á OUÏR (France)

Vilnius Mama Jazz 2003

Copenhagen Art Ensemble (Denmark)

Lithuanian Jazz Trio (Lithuania)

David Linx & Diederik Wissels Quartet (Belgium, France)

Raivo Tafenau Quartet featuring NEDA (Estonia, Lithuania, Finland)

TRANS – ATLANTIC (Russia)

Marcus Miller & Marcus Miller Band (USA)

JAZZ DUO Bàlvànyos Judit & Varga Zsolt (Hungary)

MAN SOUND (Ukraina)

Man Bites Dog (Netherlands)

Vladimir Chekasin WORLD MUSIC SHOW (Lithuania, Germany, Russia)

Erik Vermeulen Trio (Belgium)

D. Labutis photo exhibition – JAZZ MY LIFE

Vilnius Mama Jazz 2002

Satoko Fujii Quartet (Japan)

Vienna Art Orchestra – Duke Ellington’s Sound of Love (Austria)

Malina’s Top Secret (Lithuania)

Second Approach (Russia)

Oddjob (Sweden)

DUO L.V.K.A. (Lithuania)

Lester Bowie’s Brass Fantasy (USA)

Saskia Laroo Rap Band (Netherlands)

TRIO TöYKEäT (Finland)

Anatoly Vapirov Project – Mirror of Memory (Bulgaria, Lithuania)

IDIOT (Lithuania, Finland)

Karim Ziad Ifrikya (France)