Schedule – 33. Beogradski jazz festival

Josemi Carmona & Javier Colina: “De Cerca”

domomladine — Wed, 20 Sep 2017 12:26:55 +0000

The encounter of Josemi Carmona and Javier Colina for the De Cerca project is marked by top expertise of these music masters, a powerful and deep dialogue enhanced by the presence of Bandolero on percussions. Their repertoire includes popular melodies as well as Josemi’s compositions creating a mix of various genres – jazz, flamenco and other Latin American music styles.

Javier Colina is one of the best double bass players on the current Spanish scene, and numerous awards are there to prove this. Main collaborations: Tete Montoliu, Chucho Valdés, Jerry González, Jorge Pardo, Perico Sambeat, Tomatito, Pepe Habichuela, Compay Segundo, Bebo Valdés, Pat Metheny, Michel Camilo, Toumani Diabaté, Silvia Pérez Cruz… Paco de Lucía said that Josemi Carmona is “one of the guitarists who will define guitar playing in the 21st century”. Born to the famous flamenco family Los Habichuela, before starting a solo career he was a member of the innovative band Ketama. His debut album on Universal featured many guest artists including Bugge Wesseltoft, Dave Holland, Manuel Carrasco, Alex Cuba, Jorge Drexler and Paco de Lucía.

Donny McCaslin Group

domomladine — Fri, 15 Sep 2017 06:12:09 +0000

When he made his Belgrade Jazz Festival debut in 1990 at Kolarac, saxophonist Donny McCaslin (1966) was just one of the talented students in the Gary Burton quintet. In 2006, on his next performance at the same place, he already played side by side with Dave Douglas. Today, he arrives as the music spirit of David Bowie’s epitaph Blackstar and the creator of Beyond Now, a tribute to Bowie, the winner of the North Sea Jazz Festival Paul Acket Award 2017, and voted the international jazz artist of the year by the Jazz FM Radio poll, where he shared the stage with The Rolling Stones. He is also a three time Grammy nominee.

McCaslin released 12 albums as a leader and collaborated with prominent contemporary jazz figures and bands, including Maria Schneider, Danilo Pérez, Brian Blade, Steps Ahead… For years now he has been an unavoidable name on the DownBeat magazine polls, he was the winner of the magazine’s Critics Poll ‘Rising Star’ category (2008 and 2009). Since 2011 he developed interest in blending electronic, dance music, funk, dub and jazz, something his former “boss” Maria Schneider especially appreciated and that would eventually lead him and the rest of the quartet (Jason Lindner, Tim Lefebvre, Mark Guiliana) straight to David Bowie.

Matija Dedić: “Three sides of jazz” feat. Gene Jackson & Joris Teepe

domomladine — Fri, 15 Sep 2017 06:13:39 +0000

Pianist and composer Matija Dedić (1973) is one of the leading Croatian jazz musicians today. This confirmed not only by the fact that he is a multiple Porin Award winner (the most prestigious music award in Croatia, 2016 he won six, including the Album of the Year award for Matija svira Arsena) but by his impressive discography with international jazz masters, as well as the relentless concert activity (solo, trio, Gabi Novak, Zoran Predin, Tamara Obrovac, Gibonni, Šimun Matišić, Zoran Majstorović…). Since 2009 he released three albums with American rhythm sections, Larry Grenadier and Jeff Ballard, Vicente Archer and Kendrick Scott, as well as Scott Colley and Antonio Sanchez – something no other active jazz musicians from the ex-YU territory has achieved.
On his third appearance at the Belgrade Jazz Festival, he presents the program from his latest album Dedicated backed up by trio with Joris Teepe (main collaborations: Don Braden, Benny Golson, Rashied Ali, Billy Hart and Randy Brecker) and Gene Jackson (main collaborations: Kevin Eubanks, Herbie Hancock, Dave Holland, Donny McCaslin, Robin Eubanks, John Abercrombie, The Mingus Big Band) a solo program and a duo with his guest Vasil Hažimanov.

Sanja Marković “Ascension”

domomladine — Fri, 15 Sep 2017 06:15:18 +0000

Composer, vocalist, multi-instrumentalist and arranger Sanja Marković was born in Zemun. She lived and worked on the East Coast USA for several years – she composed, taught piano and music theory and gained producing experience with Water Music studio (Rob Grenoble). She obtained her Master’s degree at the Belgrade Music Academy.

She worked for various Belgrade theatres and composed music for the Dah teatar. Along with Nebojša Ignjatović, she worked in the conceptual group Secondhanders. In recent years, she leads the club band Brazilian Jazz Collective, occasionally performs with the RTS Big Band, and took part in the project New Sparks Jazz Orchestra. At the Festival, she will promote her debut album Ascension (Metropolis Jazz). On this record, she superbly sails through various areas, blending classical and contemporary jazz, electronic and pop structures as well as subtle tastes of folklore in an organic music beyond genres. Along with a strong work as a composer, she demonstrates her superior vocal abilities and her precise and powerful and yet warm and seductive alto.

Tapan

domomladine — Fri, 15 Sep 2017 06:18:47 +0000

Duo Tapan čine producenti Nebojša Bogdanović Švabe i Goran Simonoski. Obojica su na beogradskoj klupskoj sceni aktivni od devedesetih godina. Pod imenom Tapan objavili su tri EP-a, ostvarujući zapažen uspeh u svetu. Uživo, u formatu kvarteta sa saksofonistom Džamalom Al Kisvanijem i perkusionistom Feđom Frenklinom grade veze između elektronike, džez improvizacije i pulsa orijentalizma izmičući lakoj kategorizaciji.

Mats Eilertsen “Rubicon”

domomladine — Fri, 15 Sep 2017 05:45:14 +0000

Uporedo sa sporadičnom solo karijerom, norveški kontrabasista Mats Ejlertsen ostvario je upečatljive rezultate u kolektivima Food, Nymark Collective, Dingobats i The Source, i kao sajdmen u sastavima Torda Gustavsena, Jakoba Janga, Hokona Kornstada, Solvejg Sletahjel i Volferta Brederoda. Internacionalni septet Rubicon njegov je dosad najambiciozniji projekat, sa kojim je debitovao kao lider pod okriljem kuće ECM.

Joshua Redman Trio

domomladine — Fri, 15 Sep 2017 06:05:35 +0000

Saxophonist and composer Joshua Redman (1969) the son of legendary saxophonist Dewey Redman (who performed at the first Newport Jazz Festival in Belgrade with the Ornette Coleman Quartet) was exposed to music at an early age, but he planned to study law and was accepted to Yale. However, after his first New York experiences and winning the Thelonious Monk International Saxophone Competition in 1991, he turned to music. Soon afterwards he was signed by Warner Bros. Records, becoming one of the leaders of the so-called “Young Lions” movement.

He released 17 albums as the leader and two with the James Farm collective. He has garnered top honours in critics and readers polls of DownBeat, JazzTimes, The Village Voice and Rolling Stone and received four Grammy nominations – the latest one this spring, for the duo album he recorded with Brad Mehldau. His collaborations include Chick Corea, Elvin Jones, Pat Metheny, Charlie Haden, Joe Lovano, Roy Haynes, Billie Higgins, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Mark Turner, but also The Rolling Stones, B.B. King and Stevie Wonder. He wrote the music for Louis Malle’s final film Vanya on 42nd Street, and made a notable appearance the Robert Altman film Kansas City.

Rodrigo Amado Motion Trio

domomladine — Fri, 15 Sep 2017 06:07:36 +0000

Winner of the Album of the Year title for 2015 (This Is Our Language, in quartet with Joe McPhee, Kent Kessler and Chris Corsano) by a poll of the most prestigious free jazz and improvised music portal Free Jazz Collective, and voted as the Best Tenor Saxophonist on Argentinian El Intruso International Critics Poll, as stated by a poll of 50 critics from all over the globe, the Portugal saxophonist Rodrigo Amado (1964) is one of the most impressive improvisers on the current European jazz scene.

He took direct part in starting the label Clean Feed, today the leading presenter of avant-garde jazz, with At Seixal, by the Portuguese/American quintet The Implicate Order being their first release. He recorded 17 albums as the leader and the co-leader (Lisbon Improvisation Players, Wire Quartet, Motion Trio…), and a couple of dozen more as a guest or a sideman (Black Bombaim, Luis Lopes, Rocky Marsiano, Sei Miguel…). Motion Trio is his favourite band in recent years, occasionally incorporating notable international improvisers like Jeb Bishop on saxophone and Peter Evans on trumpet as guests.

Peter Evans Ensemble

domomladine — Fri, 15 Sep 2017 06:09:41 +0000

Trumpet player Peter Evans (1981) has been active on the New York scene since 2003. He recorded with Mostly Other People Do the Killing, a group that staged an explosive performance at the 2012 Belgrade Jazz Festival, as well as with Pulverize the Sound and Rocket Science. He collaborated with a broad range of figures in modern music, including John Zorn, Joe McPhee, Evan Parker, Craig Taborn, Jim Black, Tyshawn Sorey, Nate Wooley, Mary Halvorson, Matana Roberts… Besides Peter Evans Ensemble, he currently leads the trio Being & Becoming, he is very active and admired solo performer, and in 2011 he started his own recording label More Is More Records.

The septet Evans presents in Belgrade marks a new chapter in his career as a bandleader and composer, reflecting the increasingly multi-dimensional and orchestral direction of his music. The ensemble of esteemed avant-garde players is a true 21st century chamber orchestra, blending dense notated scores, free improvisation, novel combinations of acoustic and electronic sounds, as well as performance energy channelling both intensity and sincerity.

Eva Klesse Quartet

domomladine — Fri, 15 Sep 2017 05:40:26 +0000

Drummer and composer Eva Klesse (1986) studied jazz percussion at the academies in Leipzig, Weimar, Paris and New York where she completed a master’s degree in 2016 and gained invaluable experience for her work at the Euroean jazz scene. In 2013, she won the Marion-Ermer Foundation award for young jazz musicians in Leipzig. She recorded and performed with bands No Kissing and Trillman, with Jorinde Jelen sextet and Julia Hülsmann octet. With her quartet she made two albums, Xenon and Obenland on the renowned Munich-based label ENJA Records. This January she was awarded with Westfalen Jazz Prize at the Münster Jazz Festival.

Winners of the “Newcomer of the year” ECHO Jazz award, the most impressive act at the 12 Points Festival in San Sebastian 2016 and German showcase at this years’ Jazzhead! EXPO in Bremen, young band members of Eva’s quartet blend typical European jazz poetry, folk elements, waltz and free jazz, melodic passages and more provocative expression in highly emotional and intense music.