Evening of jazz music held within the framework of the cultural project “German spring” took place in the capital’s cinema and concert hall “Turkmenistan”. In this time, jazz quartet “Passacaglia” Hugo Zigmet arrived in Ashgabat with program of the same name, which is translated from the Spanish language as “walk along the street”. We talked with its creative director and saxophonist Hugo Zigmet and he told us the following: - Giving a name to the group, we put in it a notion of “endless music”, associating it with the fact that walking along street, we become the witnesses of different events, phenomena, situations and get different impressions from things we saw and heard, noticing all what is going on around… Most of musical compositions borrowed the expression of jazz for brighter sounding. In any way our play may be rather considered as chamber classic music, because we derive our inspiration from productions of Gendel, Bach, Vebern, striving to attach by arrangements to productions of great composers a new sounding, extremely special musical context. Exactly this mixture of styles baroque and classic with multifaceted world of jazz, is very interesting for us, it ads original colour to music sounding. And I hope that Ashgabat spectators will like it.


Final number of concert was welcomed by spectators with storm of applause. Derya Karayev – musician of orchestra of the National music and drama theatre named after Magtymguly appeared on the stage with gyjak – the Turkmen stringed instrument. The audience stood still in expectation. And then the strings of gyjak quavered under fiddlestick and the sounds of Turkmen national melody flung. Musicians of quartet grasped the song of gyjak and adding in it a hot jazz energy, coloured the final of the concert with bright polyphony. The audience exploded with applause, and musicians with such memorizable final have put exclamation point, once more proving that there are no borders for multifarious music, it is understandable and beloved by nations of all states and continents.