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Ratko Zjaca / Simone Zanchini: The Way We Talk

by Dan Bilawsky
Guitarist Ratko Zjaca's previous albums have been cross-cultural affairs, with top-flight American jazz musicians joining the Croatian guitarist on his musical journeys. While these players have vastly different backgrounds, Zjaca's music has acted as a binding agent, allowing these disparate musical personalities to coalesce into a solid working unit that moves together in service of the ...
Ratko Zjaca: Continental Talk

by Karl Ackermann
When a group's credentials include bassist John Patitucci, drummer Steve Gadd and trumpeter Randy Brecker, it's not an unreasonable expectation to hear some quality jazz. What may be more surprising is that leader, guitarist and composer, Ratko Zjaca and his longtime collaborator, saxophonist, Stanislav Mitrovic, steal the show on Continental Talk. This revelation is almost entirely ...
Continental Talk

By Ratko Zjaca
Label: In + Out Records
Released: 2009
Track listing: Breakfast in Tokyo; The New Life: Portrait in Retrograde; Inner Ears; Kurosawa; At the Crossroads; Home Again; Correspondence; Feather; The Gate; Anibas; E Doubt.
Ratko Zjaca: Continental Talk

by John Barron
When guitarist Ratko Zjaca plans a recording session, he thinks big in terms of sidemen. The guitarist's 2006 release Crossing the Border (Nishville Records) featured bassist John Patitucci and drummer Al Foster, along with saxophonist and co-producer Stanislav Mitrovic. For Continental Talk, Patitucci and Mitrovic return and Foster is replaced by legendary drummer Steve Gadd. Trumpeter ...