{"id":4128,"date":"2025-11-23T21:51:25","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T21:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musiclatvia.lv\/2025\/11\/23\/latvian-jazzfunk-band-very-cool-people-released-the-album-woodstocks-renaissance\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T21:51:25","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T21:51:25","slug":"latvian-jazzfunk-band-very-cool-people-released-the-album-woodstocks-renaissance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musiclatvia.lv\/en\/latvian-jazzfunk-band-very-cool-people-released-the-album-woodstocks-renaissance\/","title":{"rendered":"Latvian jazzfunk band Very Cool People released the album  Woodstock\u2019s Renaissance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The best-known Latvian jazzfunk band Very Cool People released a live album Woodstock<\/strong><strong>\u2019<\/strong><strong>s Renaissance dedicated to the heydays of Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix and The Doors. It was made together with Latvian pop singer Aija Andrejeva.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The concept of Woodstock\u2019s Renaissance was born in 2020, when Very Cool People together with Aija Andrejeva performed at the international improvisation, jazz and global music festival R\u012bgas Ritmi. A concert program dedicated to Janis Joplin was presented there. It was later supplemented with songs by Jimi Hendrix and The Doors and became Woodstock\u2019s Renaissance.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fgAi88DG_oM\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The new program was presented in April 2022 in the theater of Liep\u0101ja, a coastal town in Latvia. The recording of this album was also made there. The program has already been performed in many powerful concerts both in Latvia and abroad.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVery Cool People are the real music hooligans with whom to realize a program like Woodstock\u2019s Renaissance\u201d, says singer Aija Andrejeva. \u201cI feel like a fish in water with this band, because it is such a good hooliganism in combination with high professionalism, enormous work capacity and also unfathomable love for stage and studio work.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison have made an indelible impact on 20th and 21st century music \u2013 rock, jazz, even contemporary music. Therefore, the new program is not only entertaining, but also educational. With its help, younger listeners are getting to know legendary compositions, but older ones \u2013 remembering youth and, yes, the sex revolution!<\/p>\n<p>The band members Elvijs Grafcovs, M\u0101ris J\u0113kabsons and Andris Bui\u0137is has created a contemporary and exciting arrangements of songs by Joplin, Hendrix and Morrison for their jazz-funk octet together with the singer Aija Andrejeva who also has a strong emotional connection with the performed songs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJanis Joplin was a prill, an absolute person of senses, wrong in everything she did, because she did it with her heart and against the system\u201d, says Aija. \u201cWhen I was a little girl, I started to listen to Janis and fell in love with her, her voice and her personality. Thanks to Janis, I realized how unimportant really external image is, because music and story speaks above all else.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Very Cool People are:\u00a0Oskars Ozoli\u0146\u0161 \u2013 trumpet, M\u0101ris J\u0113kabsons \u2013 tenor saxophone, Laura Rozenberga \u2013 trombone, Kristaps Lubovs \u2013 baritone saxophone, Elvijs Grafcovs \u2013 guitar, M\u0101ris Vitkus \u2013 keyboards, J\u0101nis Olek\u0161s \u2013 bass,\u00a0Andris Bui\u0137is \u2013 drums.<\/p>\n<p>In the Woodstock\u2019s Renaissance concert program, the group\u2019s trombonist Laura Rozenberga also presents herself as another solo vocalist, while additional vocals were sung by Zane Bi\u0137e and Antra Kr\u016bmi\u0146a. The album\u2019s bonus track Mercedes Benz was recorded at a concert in the Latvian town of Sigulda, and Roberts Martini played the tenor saxophone in this track.<\/p>\n<p>The new album was produced by Elvijs Grafcovs, mixed by Art\u016brs Sedriks Sinkevi\u010ds and mastered by J\u0101nis Kalve from Labo Ierakstu Studio. It can be heard on major music streaming services and is also released in CD format, designed by M\u0101rti\u0146\u0161 Legzdi\u0146\u0161.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The best-known Latvian jazzfunk band Very Cool People released a live album Woodstock\u2019s Renaissance dedicated to the heydays of Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix and The Doors. It was made together with Latvian pop singer Aija Andrejeva. 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