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Vijay Iyer Trio and Kurt Elling with the ZJM Big Band Orchestra at the Zagreb Jazz Festival 2021

by Nenad Georgievski
December 5, 2021

Zagreb Jazz Festival Lisinski Concert Hall Zagreb, Croatia November 5-7, 2021 Held in the historical Lisinski concert hall, the 12th Zagreb Jazz Festival—directed by the tireless Dražen Kokanović-unfolded over three days, although this review covers only the first two, which featured Vijay Iyer's trio with bassist Linda May Han Oh ...

Pavle Miljenović

Born: June 12, 1982

Pavle is a Croatian jazz guitarist and composer. He has finished his jazz studies at Kaertner Landeskonservatorium in Klagenfurt (Austria) with his teacher prof. Agostino Di Giorgio (USA) and has played music with a lot of world class musicians. He has recorded music with Croatia’s top musicians, composed music for the theatre and has been an educator over a decade.

Zvjezdan Ruzic

Born: June 21, 1988

Zvjezdan Ružić, pianist, arranger and composer was born on 21 June 1988 in Rijeka, Croatia. He graduated in jazz piano at the Kärntner Landeskonservatoriumu (Austria) in the class of Prof. Rob Bargad (SAD). During high school, Ružić attended jazz seminars hosted by the pianist Emil Spany and private lessons from a well known pianist—David Gazarov. From 2009 he became a permanent member of the band Jazziana Croatica. The band has so far recorded four studio albums of which three were awarded with Porin, the most respectable Croatian discography award. In 2015 Zvjezdan released his debut album The Knightingale Cabaret—a project where respected jazz musicians from Croatia and Slovenia were gathered; Lenart Krečič, Vojkan Jocić, Tomaž Gajšt, Luka Veselinović, Adriano Bernobić & Alba Nacinovich

Mimika Orchestra

Mimika Orchestra is an avant-garde concept jazz-world ensemble formed in London (UK) and currently based in Zagreb (Croatia). It was formed by the Croatian multi-instrumentalist and composer Mak Murtić in 2010. Murtić´s original compositions for the ensemble are strongly influenced by the Balkan folk traditions, using their specific modalities and rhythms in a contemporary jazz expression. Through music and stage appearance alike, every project explores a different theme. The pieces are conceptually and stylistically bound by a narrative highlighted by costumes and performance. So far, Murtić has introduced the audiences with a utopian society on Mars, a prehistoric migration from Africa into the world and a pagan Slavic funeral ceremony

Goran Delac

Born: January 19, 1878

January 19, 1978. born in Zagreb, Croatia. 1986. – 1992. studying piano at the age of eight in a elementary school for classical music in Zagreb 1998. – 2002. went to study double bass in a Vatroslav Lisinski, classical music school in Zagreb 2002. received a scholarship to attend the Los Angeles Music Academy (LAMA) learning from Ed Lucie, Jerry Watts, Hussain Jiffry, Lynne Davis and his musical idols (Victor Wooten, Matthew Garisson, Alain Caron, Ernie Watts, Leland Sklar, John Pena, Mike Stern, Frank Gambale, Alex Acuna...) 2004. graduated and returned to his home town and began his professional career 2005. became one of the founders of the Capo-Media Music production company, and also released his first solo CD "my music" 2006. Recieved the Croatian Music Award for "best electric jazz bass player" 2007., 2008., 2009., 2010

Lela Kaplowitz

Born: July 20, 1977

Lela Kaplowitz was born in a little town of Sisak in a former Yugoslavia, today Croatia. She began professionally singing at 16 years of age. Lela studied the vocal improvisation with Sheila Jordan (www.sheilajordan.com) at the Jazz Conservatorium in Graz (Austria), and later in New York with world-renowned jazz musicians like Jay Clayton (www.jayclayton.com), Mark Murphy (www.markmurphy.com), Barry Harris (www.barryharris.com), and Kate McGarry (www.katemcgarry.com). Lela also attended the Berklee Summer Music Workshop in Perugia, Italy, and studied at the New School in New York while living there

Vladimir Sucic

Born: January 1, 1937

Was First trombonist in Big Band HRT Zagreb Croatia and later I play Basstrombone. I played in big band of Ernie Wilkins, played with Kai Winding, John Lewis, Art Farmer, Lucky Thomson. Sal Nistico, Johnny Griffin, Leo Wright, Slide Hampton, Art Taylor, Lou Blackburn, Erling Kronner, Albert Mangelsdorf, Ed Thigpen , Erich Kleinschuster Alvin Quin, Kenny Drew, Matrial Solal Donna Hightower Jimmy Woode

Nestorovic Sasa

SAŠA NESTOROVIĆ (Zagreb, 1964) was a member of the EBU Big Band Orchestra during a concert tour in Montreal and other cities of Canada in 1999.He is now playing lead soprano and tenor in Renato Rozic Consort, Synth and all the winds in ACEZANTEZ and conducts HRT Big band (Croatian Radio and television show big band).With Zagreb saxophone quartet tours worldwide.

Maja Savic

Born: September 5, 1979

MAJA SAVIC was born in Zadar, Croatia. At the age of 7, she convinces her parents that she wants to learn how to play the piano and ends up in Music School “Pavao Markovac” in Zagreb, where she studies the piano until 1992. She starts composing and arranging and occasionally singing in public. She started performing as a lead female vocalist along with a male vocalist and a rhythm section with a pop/rock band called Flyer in 1998, doing all sorts of covers. After that band she finds herself in one original band named Bazaar dealing with a harder style, mixing hard core and jazzy sounds, where she wrote her own lyrics and vocals

Donna Lee Sax4

Born: February 15, 1999

Donna Lee Saxophone Quartet was founded in 1999, and since then it has performed in numerous concert venues and has had appearances on radio and on television. The DLSQ performs arrangements of jazz standards, though the arrangements and originals of the 29th Street Saxophone Quartet and World Saxophone Quartet can also be found on its repertoire. The quartet aims toward recognizable sound through original compositions composed by Zdenko Ivanusic.