MIRAGE JAZZ ORCHESTRA

Mirage Jazz Orchestra (MJO) first stepped on stage in January 2004. MJO unites the best Latvian jazz musicians with various musical backgrounds.  The co – founders of the band are the trombone player Lauris Amantovs and sax player Deniss Paškevičs. This is Lauris' dream of a big band made true, charished throughout the study years at Klaipeda University. His great inspiration and tutors have been the distingueshed jazz masters Jiggs Whigham and Peter Herbolzcheimer. Deniss Paškevičs is a prominent jazz musician, producer and founder of the first and only jazz music production company in Latvia and initiatior of a number of jazz groups like the ones with Brian Melvin, Rio Kawasaki, Nick Ali, Brownmann Can and others. He is also teaching the young talents at Riga Dome Choir School. The lead trumpeter is Űlo Ussenko.He and also the trumpeter Zigurds Linde as well as  the  sax players read more...