Pianist A Bu performs during the Rigas Ritmi (Riga Rhythms), the annual international jazz festival in Riga, Latvia, on July 6, 2019. Rigas Ritmi (Riga Rhythms), the annual international jazz festival taking place in the Latvian capital, saw a whole bunch of super talented Chinese artists come to its stages this week with a number of dazzling shows and masterclasses. A Bu, the 19-year-old Chinese piano prodigy who in April this year won the XII Riga Jazz Stage competition, returned to the Baltic country this summer to perform at the festival. Tianchang Band, an orchestra of nine artists from Beijing who also performed at Riga Congress Center on Saturday, took the audience to an exciting journey into the world of Chinese popular music instruments, masterfully mixing traditional sounds of folk music with jazz. (Xinhua/Edijs Palens)
