December 2^nd-11^th, 2010 — the 10^th International Jazz Bez Festival will take place in thirteen cities of Ukraine and Poland.

Lviv, Harkiv, Sevastopol, Ternopol, Lutsk, Ivano-Frankivsk, Rivne, Uzhgorod, Lublin, Warsaw, Pshemysl, Sanok and Novitsa will plunge into ten days of infinite jazz. Reikartz Hotels & Resorts has the honor of being the official partner of the event.

This year Jazz Bez celebrates its 10^th anniversary. Over the past decade the Festival has managed not only to survive and remain vital and challenging, but to gain more and more jazz admirers each year, attracting new cities of Ukraine into jazz movement. The goal of Jazz Bez is to draw a mixed, still harmonious picture all the jazz styles: swing, fusion, bi-bop, jazz-rock, funk, cool, free jazz, etc.

The Festival will present the whole variety of jazz in its most daring experiments and improvisations performed by world-known artists and new-born jazz bands. Thus, in 2010 Jazz Bez will offer you the opportunity to enjoy such performers as:

• Dzyga Jazz Quartet, Marina Zakharova & Agabeyli Brothers – Ukraine;
• Pervoe Solntсe and Second Approach Trio – Russia;
• Full Blast – Germany; LeLa project – Armenia and Ukraine;
• New Trio, Karolak Quartet, Oktawia, Mencel Trio, Old Rzech Jazz Band – Poland;
• BrassBastardz and Lt Acidjazz Orchestra – Lithuania;
• Futurethno, Litvinyuk Acoustik Jazz, Portrety – Ukraine and Poland;
• Yury Yaremchuk and Alex Lapin, Tatyana Balakirskaya & «Free-SpokenBand» – Russia and Ukraine;
• Alex Maksymiv Projekt with musicians from Canada, Holland and Portugal.

The event is organized by Dzyga Art Association, while Reikartz Dworzec Lviv Hotel will traditionally welcome and accommodate Jazz Bez participants and guests.