Schedule – 34. Beogradski jazz festival

DJ Patife

domomladine — Mon, 15 Oct 2018 10:35:02 +0000

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Fish in Oil, special guest Marc Ribot

domomladine — Fri, 21 Sep 2018 11:18:43 +0000

The eclectic music of Fish in Oil is a natural blend of blues, swing, free jazz, French chanson, funky, surf and punk partly inspired by ambience of John Zorn, Marc Ribot and Tom Waits. After a long love relationship with the Belgrade clubgoers, today they are regular acts at local and international jazz festivals as they promote one of the most ambitious Serbian instrumental work ever, their double album 3 Keys (3 ključa). As an opening act for the 34th Belgrade Jazz Festival, they will introduce their latest, fourth album with the help from a special international guest.

Ben Wendel Seasons Band

domomladine — Fri, 21 Sep 2018 11:57:00 +0000

Saxophonist Ben Wendel (Canada/USA) is best known for his work with the 2009 Grammy-nominated group Kneebody and his collaboration with Tigran Hamasyan, Linda Oh and Prince, among others. He released three solo albums and at this Festival he presents his project The Seasons, inspired by Tchaikovsky’s works of the same name. He made a video for each month of the year with a different jazz partner while two of them, guitarist Gilad Hekselman (first in the Rising Star category of Downbeat magazine in 2017) and bassist Matt Brewer are members of the performing Seasons Band.

Jensen Sisters: Infinitude

domomladine — Fri, 21 Sep 2018 12:01:50 +0000

The concept of boundless possibilities in the name of the latest project by Ingrid and Christine Jensen is the best way to describe their prolific careers. Through her work mainly on the New York jazz scene, Ingrid collaborated with a number of small combos as leader or sideman, and for almost two decades she has been in the Maria Schneider Jazz Orchestra. Christine is a part of the Montreal scene, she has been awarded the Oscar Peterson Prize of the FIJM 2017 and the same year was voted Rising Star – Soprano Sax in the Downbeat Critics Poll. This joint project won the JUNO (Canadian equivalent of Grammy) in the category Jazz Album of the Year: Group, for 2018.

LAN Trio

domomladine — Fri, 21 Sep 2018 12:10:23 +0000

LAN Trio brings together three experienced European jazz scene personas. Mário Laginha (piano, Portugal) is best known for his long-time partnership with Maria João, Julian Argüelles (saxophones, Great Britain) has been a member of the legendary Loose Tubes orchestra, while Helge Andreas Norbakken (percussion, Norway) collaborated with Mari Boine, Jon Balke, Kari Bremnes and Jon Hassell, among others. This collective joins their different emotions – the warmth of Laginha’s pianism (who is the main composer), the energy of Norbakken, as well as the lyricism and English romanticism of Argüelles.

Marco Mezquida

domomladine — Fri, 21 Sep 2018 12:16:43 +0000

At 31 years of age, pianist and composer Marco Mezquida already he has some fifty recorded albums, with 16 under his own name (solo piano, different duos and trios) as well as four Award Musician of the Year by the Association of Jazz of Catalonia (2011-2013, 2015). His eclectic interests join a wide range of genres – classical romanticism (Schubert, Chopin) and impressionism (Trio by Ravel), popular music, mainstream jazz, avant-garde and free improvisations, rock and flamenco. Besides working on his own projects, he composes music for theatre and television.

Omer Avital Qantar

domomladine — Fri, 21 Sep 2018 12:24:41 +0000

Israeli-born bassist and composer Omer Avital first gained experience playing with his peers at the legendary Smalls jazz Club in New York (Brad Mehldau, Peter Bernstein, Mark Turner, Gregory Tardy, Jimmy Greene…). Avital continued education in Israel studying classical composition and traditional music of the Middle East and North Africa. He successfully played with the collective Third World Love (with trumpeter Avishai Cohen), and upon return to the USA he built an impressive solo career (11 albums), skilfully combining jazz and funk, Israeli, Moroccan and Yemen music.

Miklós Lukács Trió – Cimbiózis

domomladine — Fri, 21 Sep 2018 12:29:34 +0000

Miklós Lukács is one of the most well-known and notable cimbalom players today with a unique style combining contemporary classical music, Hungary and the Balkans folklore and contemporary jazz. He collaborated with a number of world-famous jazz performers (Charles Lloyd, Archie Shepp, Chris Potter, Larry Grenadier, Eric Harland, Uri Caine, Chico Freeman Herbie Mann, Steve Coleman…) and is a long-time member of the internationally most recognized Hungarian jazz band, the Mihály Dresch Quartet. In trio Cimbiózis he presents his compositions reflecting his diverse interests.

The Necks

domomladine — Fri, 21 Sep 2018 12:33:52 +0000

The Australian cult trio The Necks make up a chemistry together that defies description in conventional terms. Their music features lengthy pieces slowly unravelling with the assistance of an unrelenting deep groove: they start their concerts from one point, slowly build an amalgam and conflict of sounds with hypnotic harmony of nothing, creating big something. Their music induces daydreaming, communicating in colours, joining extremes to the point of ecstasy, disjoining them again into one big nothing. Not entirely avant-garde, nor minimalist, nor ambient, nor jazz, the music of The Necks is a unique phenomenon in the world today.

Julia Hülsmann Octet

domomladine — Fri, 21 Sep 2018 12:39:06 +0000

German pianist Julia Hülsmann is back at the Festival after five years with her new, original project, international octet (classical piano trio with violin and cello, jazz trio with bass and drums, as well as three vocals) consisting of ladies only, with notable German rhythmists, ECHO Jazz award winners, the double bassist Eva Kruse and the drummer Eva Klesse. Julia is a long-time exclusive artist of the ECM and her work features an atmosphere typical for this label – ambience, thoughtful and gentle music for late hours.