T-BLUES Mobile  (Georgia)

KOKA TSKITISHVILI  lead vocals, bass
TAMAZ TKHINVALELI  lead guitars, back vocals
ROMA RTSKHILADZE  piano, keyboards, back vocals
ZAZA TSERTSVADZE  drums, percussion

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 Ulviyya Rahimova (Azerbaijan) Baku, Azerbaijan

A rising jazz talent from Azerbaijan, Ulviyya has been singing since she was 7. She began her career in the ‘Beri Bakh’ musical group, led by Rauf Babayev. Since then she has been heard performing at a number of venues in Baku, most commonly at the Jazz Centre. She has been a long time collaborator with pianist and winner of the 2009 Montreaux Jazz Festival Isfar Sarabski. Ulviyya sings jazz with accents of local rhythms and a soulful, yet optimistic sound. Her influences include jazz standards, bossa nova, soul, and traditional music from the Caucasus. Her music fuses these styles to create a unique, personal sound.  Read more

"4 Synthesized" (Georgia)

Kakha Jagashvili (Sax)

 Soso kapanadze (Piano)

  Crossroads Blues Band (Armenia)

Artak Nersisyan (Harmonica)  
Mish Amiryan (vocal)
Karen Mamikonyan (Piano)
Edgar Sahakyan (Bass)
Armen Movsisyan (drums)

Dini Virsaladze Trio (Georgia)

 Dinara (Dini) Virsaladze, a famous Georgian pianist, born in Tbilisi (Republic of Georgia), studied piano at Tbilisi Music School for Gifted Children and graduated from Tbilisi State Conservatoire (faculty of piano - Professor Tina Gogolashvili, faculty of organ - Professor Eter Mgaloblishvili). After graduating from the Conservatoire she began working in a chamber orchestra as a pianist and harpsichord player under principal conductor Vadim Shubladze. Her career continued as a concert-master at the vocal department of the Conservatoire and with Tbilisi Chamber Orchestra as a harpsichord player, where she also served as a manager.

Dini Virsaladze appeared before the audience as a jazz pianist and a composer for the first time in 1993. The same year she participated in Novosibirsk Jazz Festival that significantly changed the life of a young musician. She performed in numerous jazz clubs and cafés and appeared in various TV shows. She was an author and a host of a Jazz TV show on TV channel “Iberia” for some time.

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