Vilnius Mama Jazz festival is one of the biggest music events in Vilnius, it has been taking place since 2002. The audience is always captivated by impressive concerts and jam sessions of the festival. The exceptional quality of Vilnius Mama Jazz is its versatility – the event is open to all styles and branches of the jazz music, as one of its purposes is to display as big a variety of jazz performances as possible.

The festival has become one of the most significant events on Vilnius music scene almost immediately after it had been started. Vilnius Mama Jazz Festival has hosted such world-wide known jazz performer and bands as:
5 PEACE BAND: Chick Corea, John McLaughlin, Christian McBride, Kenny Garrett, Vinnie Colaiuta; Bill Frisell, Jack DeJohnette, Sibongile Khumalo, Bobby Previte, Eric Truffaz, Miroslav Vitous, THE LEADERS: Bobby Watson, Chico Freeman, Eddie Henderson, Frederick Harris, Lonnie Plaxico, Billy Hart (USA),
WAYNE SHORTER QUARTET: Wayne Shorter, Danilo Perez, John Patitucci, Brian Blade (USA), John Scofield (USA), Victor Bailey (USA), Dee Dee Bridgewater (USA),Medeski Martin & Wood (USA), Chris Potter(USA), Billy Cobham Band (USA), Beady Belle (Norway), Yaron Herman Trio (France), CRAM Quartet (Holland), Lars Danielsson and Leszek Mozdzer (Denmark-Poland), Louis Sclavis Trio (France), Melosolex (France), Bill Evans (USA), THE BAD PLUS (USA), Peter Brötzman (Germany), Joe McPhee (USA), Chris Minh Doky (USA), Philip Hamilton (USA), Dennis Rollins (Great Britain), Rosario Giuliani Quintet (Italy), “Vienna Art Orchestra” (Austria), Satoko Fujii (Japan), OZMA (France), EMPIRICAL (Great Britain) and many others.

Every concert of Vilnius Mama Jazz is unique and deserves attention.

High quality of the festival performances, fascinating shows, a particularly flexible ticketing system and a buzzling vivid atmosphere are some of the factors that fill the concert venues with people, not to forget that in this festival one can be sure that jam sessions will last till the morning.

Vilnius MAMA JAZZ Festival 2010 FULL PROGRAMME

November 17, Wednesday

Live music club Tamsta (Subačiaus g. 11a)

20.00 Jazz Quartet (Lithuania, Austria)
Elias STEMESEDER – p
Max SANTNER – dr
Vytautas LABUTIS – sax
Eugenijus KANEVIČIUS – db

Live music club Tamsta

22.00 Jam Session
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November 18, Thursday

Lithuanian Russian Drama Theatre  (J. Basanavičiaus g. 13)

19.00 Artūras ANUSAUSKAS (Lithuania)
Artūras ANUSAUSKAS – p

JING'A'LING (Lithuania)
Vytautė PUPŠYTĖ – voc
Vytis SMOLSKAS – p
Paulius VOLKOVAS – g
Julius VALANČAUSKAS – b
Gediminas AUGUSTAITIS – dr

Sylvain Cathala PRINT (France)
Sylvain CATHALA – ts
Stéphane PAYEN – as
Jean-Luc LEHR – el. b
Franck VAILLANT – dr

Holiday Inn Vilnius (Šeimyniškių g. 1)

22.00 Jam Session
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November 19, Friday

Lithuanian Russian Drama Theatre (J. Basanavičiaus g. 13)

19.00 Dave Samuels – Nikolai Panov Alliance. Organik band (USA)
Dave SAMUELS – vb, el. marimba
Nikolai PANOV – sax
Ron OSWANSKI – org, acc
Marko MARCINKO – dr

Eivind Aarset "Sonic Codex 4tet" (Norway)
Eivind AARSET – g
Bjoern CHARLES DREYER – g & pedal steel
Audun ERLIEN – b
Wetle HOLTE – dr

Holiday Inn Vilnius (Šeimyniškių g. 1)

22.00 Jam Session
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November 20, Saturday

Lithuanian Russian Drama Theatre (J. Basanavičiaus g. 13)

19.00 Jan MAKSIMOWICH GROUP (Lithuania)
Jan MAKSIMOWICH – sax, programming
Dominykas VYŠNIAUSKAS – tr, flg, programming
Paulius ADOMĖNAS – b
Mantas AUGUSTAITIS – dr

ROBERT GLASPER TRIO (USA)
Robert GLASPER – p, fender rhodes
Derrick HODGE – b
Mark COLENBURG – dr

Holiday Inn Vilnius (Šeimyniškių g. 1)

22.00 Jam Session
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November 21, Sunday

Lithuanian Russian Drama Theatre  (J. Basanavičiaus g. 13)

18.00 Jay PHELPS – Sebastian WEISS – Robin ARISTORENAS – Rick JAMES – Marijus ALEKSA (Great Britain, Lithuania)
Jay PHELPS – tr
Sebastian WEISS – keys
Robin ARISTORENAS – g
Rick JAMES – b
Marijus ALEKSA – dr

GERALD CLAYTON TRIO (USA)
Gerald CLAYTON – p
Harish RAGHAVAN – b
Justin BROWN – dr

Holiday Inn Vilnius (Šeimyniškių g. 1)

21.00 Jam Session

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