At the biggest jazz festival in Lithuania "Kaunas Jazz 2023" on April 28. "DixXband", the Kaunas dixieland performing instrumental Chicago-style music, will host its performance. This year, the traditional jazz band, which celebrates its 20th anniversary, promises the festival audience, who appreciate the exceptional taste of music and its rhythmic harmony, an exceptional repertoire specially prepared for the festival.
It is symbolic that in Independence Square full of freedom, the DixXband group promises to transport listeners with their rhythmic performance to the streets of New Orleans and Chicago, where traditional jazz, Dixieland, swing and its variants originated.
"Abroad, we can often see Dixieland bands and artists playing on the streets, on bridges - this is music that is created for freedom, so it is precisely in open spaces, nature, cafes or city squares, and not in concert halls, that it sounds best and creates a sense of inner freedom for the listeners. Together with the members of the DixXband group, we want the fans of Kaunas Jazz to experience the feeling that traditional jazz creates - the delicate harmony of melody and rhythm, a sense of freedom and improvisation, the opportunity to enjoy music and life at your leisure," says DixXband. the artistic director of the group Raimundas Arnašius.
The music of Dixieland is rhythmic, the kind where the charm of the classics is complemented by its vintage flavor. In today's space, Dixieland music sounds like a valuable antique to be preserved and enjoyed. It is a genre of music lovers with a unique taste that finds its way into the hearts of people who seek a sense of freedom.
The "DixXband" group, performing an instrumental Chicago-style music style, promises to bring additional musical spices to its performance - swing and "Vintage Jazz" - popular music pieces performed in a jazz manner, and Vaiva Venslovienė, a singer with a soft and colorful voice, who has recently joined the team, will help to realize this. .
Kaunas Dixieland "DixXband" is welcomed and appreciated not only by fans of Lithuanian but also foreign jazz festivals. Their list of performances includes dozens of jazz festivals and audience appreciation. Having held their first performance at the Kaunas Philharmonic in 2003, soon after that they recorded their first CD on Lithuanian radio and television, entitled "The Right Music Dose". in 2008 At the jazz festival held in Biršton, the group also recorded the second song - "SingSwing" live.
in 2007 at the "Euro Jazz" festival-competition held in Kaunas, Dixieland was awarded the "Gand Prix" prize for the performance of the European Union anthem in the "New Orleans Jazz" style, the arrangement of which was written by Rimantas Giedraitis, and won the sympathy of the audience.