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Alexander Zonjic

Alexander Zonjic’s musical life is proof that one’s true destiny isn’t always revealed the minute a youngster picks up his first instrument. Growing up in Windsor, Ontario and excited by all the music of the British invasion, he launched his guitar dreams at age nine and was playing lead guitar in an R&B band in high school. The story goes that at age 21, when Zonjic was home on hiatus from a rock tour, a stranger on the street who had seen him play guitar offered him a flute ? most likely stolen ? for 50 dollars. Zonjic got it for nine. “I liked how it looked in the case,” Zonjic recalls

Alexander Zonjic & Friends At Middle C Jazz

by Mark Sullivan
December 26, 2019

Alexander Zonjic & Friends Middle C Jazz Charlotte, NC December 21, 2019 Flutist Alexander Zonjic was born in Canada, but has made his home in Detroit for many years. As he was tuning his guitar onstage he chatted with audience members from Windsor (there were several), and from Detroit (lots of ...

Mark Weinstein: Timbasa

by Woodrow Wilkins
March 26, 2010

First came the transition from trombonist to flutist. Then came the transition to Latin jazz. For Mark Weinstein, a confluence of worlds has become modus operandi. Brooklyn-born Weinstein's experience has included a fusion of post-bebop music with traditional Afro-Cuban drumming. As a trombonist, he worked with Chick Corea, Cal Tjader, Tito Puente, Maynard Ferguson, ...

Doin' the D

By Alexander Zonjic

Label: Heads Up International
Released: 2009
Track listing: Top Down; From A to Z, Little Sunflower; Passion Island; Tourista, Undun; Doin

Alexander Zonjic: Doin' the D

by Jeff Winbush
July 17, 2009

Last year it had the highest murder rate in America. The mayor resigned in disgrace following a sex scandal and went to prison. Its football team won all its games in the preseason and went on to lose every game in the regular season. That's how things went for the city of Detroit last year and ...

Seldom Blues

By Alexander Zonjic

Label: Heads Up International
Released: 2005
Track listing: Leave It With Me, Seldom Blue, AZ Does It, Isabela, People Make the World Go Round, Spill the Wine, Sweat, Under the Moon and Over the Sky, Quantum, Britters

Alexander Zonjic: Seldom Blues

by Woodrow Wilkins
January 22, 2005

Alexander Zonjic is a fine flutist who typically surrounds himself with top-notch talent. His latest recording, Seldom Blues , is no exception. It features brothers Kirk and Kevin Whalum, Angela Bofill and Earl Klugh, among others. However, its shortcoming is a formulaic approach to the rhythm tracks. There's nothing wrong with using modern tools ...

Seldom Blues

By Alexander Zonjic

Label: Babel
Released: 2004

Reach For The Sky

By Alexander Zonjic

Label: Babel
Released: 2001

Selections From "Passion"

By Alexander Zonjic

Label: Babel
Released: 1993