Results for "Serbian Jazz"

Yupika Quintet

Active since: 2001

Yupika Quintet is a well-established contemporary jazz ensemble with over two decades of musical history, featuring New York City-based vocalist Ivana Kotov.

Reborn, released internationally on October 30, 2026, presents original contemporary jazz album with six original compositions,  featuring sophisticated harmonies, dynamic improvisation, and distinctive ensemble interplay.

The album brings together the expressive freedom of modern jazz and the soulful influences of gospel and soul, creating a distinctive musical identity that bridges contemporary jazz traditions and New York’s soulful vocal artistry.

Aleksandar Jovanovic Shljuka

Born: May 4, 1978

• Aleksandar Jovanović Šljuka - pianist, keyboardist, composer, arranger, was born in Zaječar in 1978, where he began his musical career doing solo performances, and with the Alegorian Jazz band in 1999, with which he revived jazz playing in Zajecar after a decades-long break (which was also recorded on one of the public recordings of the radio show "All That Jazz" on Radio Belgrade 202). • Since 2004, he has been working with the band Coolares, with which he has had more than a thousand club and concert performances throughout Serbia and the surrounding countries. • In 2009, he founded the jazz trio Woodcock Group, with which he began his composer career, and performed throughout Serbia, and in 2011 this trio released the album Water Stories, for the label Sunset Jazz Recordings from New York. • In 2012 he joins the Serbian Jazz BRE! project as a pianist, composer and arranger