Jazz evenings with bands from Poland, Germany and Romania will take place, starting from Tuesday, September 1 until September 15, on the occasion of the three-decade anniversary of the establishment of the Green Hours Club in Bucharest, a press release sent to AGERPRES on Tuesday, reads.

“On September 1, 2024, Green Hours celebrates three decades of existence. It happened and is happening at Green Hours jazz-cafe, one of the most famous jazz clubs in Bucharest, founded in 1994 and located in the very core of the capital, in the vicinity of more than select Group for Social Dialogue, Magazine 22 and the first Humanitas Bookstore, in the meantime closed, the Bookstore at the Back of the Yard/Libraria din Fundul Curtii,” the source says.

“The beginnings of the LUNI Theater were the same as the beginnings of the Green Hours jazz club: coincidental. For the bar I opened in 1994, here, on Calea Victoriei 120, I had only thought at the beginning that I wanted it to be a bar a bit ‘different’, including through certain musical artistic interventions, which at that time I envisioned as an evening of classical guitar, an evening of jazz – maybe even easy-jazz, in the sense that I wasn’t thinking of a band, but rather a piano solo or something like that. Along the way, it turned into a jazz club, especially due to the ‘rush’ of jazz artists. And, after less than two years, young artists had already started to propose (and I accepted, of course) some acting sketches, as intermezzos during the jazz sessions. These led to the growth of mutual joy – of me, of the artists and of the audience – towards the idea of theater,” said the late Voicu Radescu, founder of Green Hours.

30 years of Green Hours will be celebrated on September 1 with a piano recital by the Czech artist of the moment, Nikol Bokova, an event organized in partnership with the Bucharest Czech Center, followed by bands that will be present until September 15 at Green Hours, including Piotr Budniak Essential Group, KRiSPER, Razvan Cipca Trio, Sorin Zlat Trio, Mircea Tiberian, FiRMA.

The programme of the event can be consulted on the greenhours.ro website.