Five decades of Miles Davis music. A five-course dinner, matched wines, and a lineup of Latvian jazz stars in one unforgettable evening.
Riga Wine & Champagne joins forces with the Pink Noise Riga music festival to create a special new event in honor of legendary musician Miles Davis and the 100th anniversary of his birth: musical wine dinners Cookin’ with the Miles Davis Latvian All-Stars.
How will it work?
Aigars Nords will select the most striking episodes from Miles Davis’s biography and tell them throughout the evening. Nords will choose the evening’s musical repertoire together with Dāvis Jurka of the Latvian Radio Big Band.
The dishes and wines will be matched to Miles Davis’s musical legacy by chef Valters Zirdziņš (B7) and sommelier Jānis Volkinšteins (Vieta).
In the roles of Miles and his like-minded collaborators, performing Davis’s music from five decades of the last century, some of Latvia’s leading musicians will take the stage: Dāvis Jurka, Kārlis Vanags, Gints Pabērzs, Miķelis Dzenuška, Rūdolfs Dankfelds, Toms Poišs, Ritvars Garoza, Reinis Puriņš, and Kristīne Prauliņa.
Musical menu
#1 · New York, Paris, Blue Note
Bebop & Birth of the Cool
#2 · Prestige
The First Quintet & the Cookin’ era
#3 · Kind of Blue, Columbia & Gil Evans
Modal jazz & orchestral colors
#4 · The Second Quintet & Wayne Shorter
1960s avant-garde & post-bop
#5 · Electric, Fusion & Funk
Bitches Brew, On the Corner & Tutu
We will present the exact concert program and menu closer to the event.
Food and wines
It is said that Miles, especially when he came to visit his hometown of St. Louis, loved good barbecue above all else. In New York, together with the good old Charlie Parker, he enjoyed fried chicken. That does not mean, however, that we will serve only barbecue or chicken...
He was said to drink the hard stuff: gin, vodka, whiskey. In large quantities, especially in the early 1950s, he also used cocaine and heroin (sorry, that will not be on the dinner menu).
Later, when he had made a pile of money and could afford to live in style, he did not turn up his nose at top-class champagnes.
There is no word that Miles had any particular favorite wine... That does not mean we will not let our imagination run free and present our own vision of what and why Miles would have enjoyed drinking!
You can rest assured that we will match Miles’s musical legacy with the best possible wines from Vieta wine bar’s rich portfolio. Meanwhile, Valters Zirdziņš and the B7 team will conjure up the food to go with them.
You will love it all!
Miles Davis Latvian All-Stars
Reinis Puriņš · trumpet
Miles Davis
Dāvis Jurka · saxophone
Charlie Parker, Cannonball Adderley, Hank Mobley
Kārlis Vanags · saxophone
Sonny Rollins, Wayne Shorter
Gints Pabērzs · saxophone
John Coltrane
Miķelis Dzenuška · vibraphone
Milt Jackson
Kristīne Prauliņa · vocals
Shirley Horn
Rūdolfs Dankfelds · percussion
Philly Joe Jones, Jimmy Cobb, Tony Williams, Max Roach
Toms Poišs · double bass
Paul Chambers, Ron Carter, Marcus Miller
Ritvars Garoza · keys
Red Garland, Wynton Kelly, Bill Evans, Joe Zawinul
Practical information
When? November 20, 2026
Where? Hanzas Perons atrium
What time? 7:00 PM, doors open at 6:00 PM
Language? Latvian
Price? €149
Included in the price
- •Five-course dinner, chef Valters Zirdziņš (B7)
- •Wines from the Vieta portfolio selected by Jānis Volkinšteins (Vieta) and Aigars Nords
- •An exclusive concert program performed by Latvia’s best musicians
- •A seat at a table
Please let us know about any allergies or special dietary requirements when purchasing your ticket.
Limited number of seats!
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