Oct 29 – 33. Beogradski jazz festival

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.