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ZZ Quartet: Beyond the Lines

by Dan McClenaghan
The group is called the ZZ Quartet, and no, it is not an expansion of the famed blues rock trio from Texas, ZZ Top. Beyond the Lines is the brainchild of the leaders--the Zs of the ZZ Quartet--accordion master Simone Zanchini and guitarist Ratko Zjaca. And their music isn't rock, though elements of the genre surface, ...
Now & Then: A Portrait

By Ratko Zjaca
Label: In+out record
Released: 2011
Track listing: Out Of Body; Why We Are Here; The New Life; Welcome To Our Jungle; Great Ocean Road; Kandinsky Night; Then And Now; Katarina; A Friend For Life; The Gate.
The Way We Walk

By Ratko Zjaca
Label: In+out record
Released: 2011
Track listing: Pippo; Twilight Time Again; Kandinsky Night; One Mind Temple; Frida Is Vanished; Morgagni Est; La Stanza Di Arturo; The Forest Of Love; Adam And Eva; A Friend For Life; Out Of Body.
The Way We Talk

By Ratko Zjaca
Label: In + Out Records
Released: 2011
Track listing: Pippo; Twilight Time Again; Kandinsky Night; One Mind Temple; Frida Is Vanished; Morgagni Est; La Stanza Di Arturo; The Forest Of Love; Adam And Eva; A Friend For Life; Out Of Body
Ratko Zjaca: Now & Then: A Portrait

by Dan Bilawsky
Boiling a decade's worth of work down to one CD must be a frustrating yet gratifying process. Frustration likely surrounds the idea of reducing ten years of blood, sweat, composing and performing into a single package, but the recorded evidence of one's artistic growth and reach is the ultimate reward. Such is the case with the ...
Ratko Zjaca / Simone Zanchini: The Way We Walk

by Nicholas F. Mondello
Jazz musicians are, in essence and practice, explorers and high-wire artists. The finest improvising players use their instruments to mine the dimensions of sound, rhythm and emotional perception, doing so without a safety net. Like its keyboard cousin the piano, the accordion as an instrument that challenges its players to explore the technical and harmonic universes ...
Ratko Zjaca - Simone Zanchini: The Way We Talk

by AAJ Italy Staff
The Way We Talk - Il nostro modo di parlare" - è l'emblematico titolo del CD d'esordio di questo quartetto che fa della molteplicità di radici, geografiche e musicali, la propria peculiarità e ricchezza. Capitanato dal chitarrista Ratko Zjaca, croato stanziato a Rotterdam, e dal fisarmonicista Simone Zanchini, il quartetto è completato alla ritmica dalla batteria ...
Ratko Zjaca / Simone Zanchini: The Way We Talk

by Karl Ackermann
Little more than a year ago, the great Croation guitarist, Ratko Zjaca, released the terrific Continental Talk (In + Out Records 2009) with his longtime collaborator, saxophonist, Stanislav Mitrovic, and some all-star American support. Not content to follow even a highly successful formula, Zjaca has teamed with Italian accordionist Simone Zanchini, Macedonian bassist Martin Gjakonovski and ...
Continental Talk

By Ratko Zjaca
Label: In + Out Records
Released: 2010
Track listing: Breakfast In Tokyo; The New Life; Portrait In Retrograde; Inner Ears; Kurosawa; At The Crossroads; Home Again; Correspondance; Feather; The Gate; Anibas; E Doubt.
The Way We Talk

By Ratko Zjaca
Label: In+out record
Released: 2010
Track listing: Pippo; Twilight Time Again; Kandinsky Night; One Mind Temple; Frida Is Vanished; Morgagni Est; La Stanza Di Arturo; The Forest Of Love; Adam And Eva; A Friend For Life; Out Of Body