The band “Twin Town” was formed at the beginning of year 2006, and it includes the best musicians that can be found in the new Latvian jazz generation. The founder of the band is one of the best origin drummer  and percussion  in the Eastern Europe – Alexandr “Shultc” Merzlikin, who has worked with many well-known artists not only from the Baltic States ( Intars Busulis ,Raimond Pauls, Janis Stibelis, Maria Naumova, Viktor Ritov, Deniss Pashkevich, Villu Veski, Tomas Rull, Raimonds Macats), but also with famous artists all over the world but all over the world (Brian Melvin (USA) , Christoph Titz (DE) , Simona Moreno (BR), Stanley Jordan (USA), Eric Moore (USA) and others).
If originally the style of the band was inclined to groove jazz  (acid jazz, electro funky jazz), then after a certain time the musical direction of the band changed, revealing to others and in a way to the musicians of the band themselves, the picturesque language of music and the enchantment of the spontanity and improvisation, as well as original compositions. Thus the style of the band could be defined as  fusion, modern jazz, jazz-rock.

The rest participants of the band are :
Kristaps Vanadzinsh – key-player, composer and arranger. He has taken part in several festivals in the Baltic States and other places in Europe. He is also the owner of Grand Prix at the competition “Sony Jazz Stage” nomination of piano.
Edvin Ozols – bass-guitar player with a very original perception of music. His style of playing could be called as groove, energy and cosmic flight. He also plays in  “Jelgavas BigBand” and works as a couch for the new musicians.
Maris Jekabsons – tenor and soprano saxophone player, composer, pedagoutenora un soprāna saksofonists, komponists, couch, one of the Latvian pioneers of  funk, acid jazz and rhytm&blues.