Jazz Articles about Tamara Obrovac

Tamara Obrovac Trans Adriatic quartet in Tolmin, Slovenia

by Ziga Koritnik
April 30, 2022

Tamara Obrovac: TransAdriaticum

by Neri Pollastri
April 24, 2020

La croata Tamara Obrovac è una cantante e compositrice dedita da anni alla trasposizione della tradizione della natia Istria nel mondo del jazz, cosa che ha realizzato in molteplici progetti e album con organici diversi. In questo suo ultimo lavoro è alla testa di una formazione denominata TransAdriatic Quartet della quale, oltre al connazionale e antico collaboratore Kunoslav Levačić alla batteria, fanno parte gli italiani Stefano Battaglia al pianoforte e Salvatore Maiore al contrabbasso. Il programma del disco ...

Tamara Obrovac Transhistria Ensemble: live@ZKM

by Bruce Lindsay
February 23, 2019

In November 2016, in celebration of her 20-year recording career, Tamara Obrovac took to the stage of the Zagreb Youth Theatre with the Transhistria Ensemble. In front of a sold-out crowd, the Croatian singer and composer performed a concert recorded as live@ZKM. The two-disc set features 11 of Obrovac's compositions, written alone and in collaborations, taken from her back-catalog of nine albums, all performed with passion and style by the singer and her fellow musicians. Obrovac describes her ...

Tamara Obrovac: Ulika Revival

by Bruce Lindsay
July 30, 2014

In 1998 singer and songwriter Tamara Obrovac, from Istria in Croatia, released Ulika (CBS), an album dedicated to her grandmother. Ulika Revival revisits a dozen songs from that album, presenting new renditions informed by the 15 or 16 years that lie between the two releases. The revival is a great success, a masterly collection of strikingly affecting songs. In a global marketplace dominated by one or two languages it's refreshing to hear a singer who remains faithful to ...