Three days jazz heart of Moscow was to the address of: Karetny Ryad, 3. These anatomic features are easily explainable: from August, 19 till August, 21st there passed the eighth under the account the international festival "Jazz in the Hermitage garden". For these three days had time to act 16 collectives - accordingly, the capital has heard 16 hours of a jazz per masterly execution of Russian, Georgian, German, turkish, French, Dutch and, certainly, the American musicians...

The third day turned out to be the most crowded. There were no free place even on the grass near stage, and some people were watching the show on feet. Having no opportunity to see the stage, some people listened to the music on the benches in the center of the garden. The Sunday concert was the longest one – it lasted for the 6 hours, one hour more then two previous. The ensemble of Alexey Podymkin (keyboards) opened the evening program. The next was the Exotic Band (Oleg Kireev’s project, sax). The music of “Feng Shui Jazz theatre” (Oleg’s projects have many names) had much in common with jazz mainstream but nevertheless it was most likely the best performance that evening. Guitar as a percussion instrument, tom-toms, a pair of maracas, Asian and Arabic vocals and Kireev’s mantra murmuring - all that reminded a kind of ritual, worshiping the Gods of Music. Sometimes Oleg looked like a real shaman. A shaman playing a terrific solo on the tenor sax – you’d better saw that! To cap that all, in one of the compositions a guitarist Valery Panfilov started to play grunge riffs, sounding so surprising on the jazz-stylistic festival!"