Ratko DIVJAK
drums
Uros SECEROV
percussion's
Primoz GRASIC
guitar
Ales AVBELJ
bass guitar

Born in 1947 in Vukovar, Croatia. For last 25 years taking part of European and American jazz scene (California jazz fest., Los Angeles, Monterey, Sacramento, Montreux, Berlin, Bologna). Performed with the most significant jazz artists like Bosko Petrovic, Dusko Goykovich, Stjepko Gut, Petar Ugrin, Art Farmer, Stan Getz, N.H.Oe. Pedersen, Albert Mengelsdorf, Tony Coy, Gary Burton, Sal Nistico, Ferdinand Powel, Gianni Basso, Richard Davis, Joe Pass, Dave Libman etc. Played for three times in the EBU Big Band. Since 1975 member of Big Band RTV Slovenia. Discography: more than 30 jazz CDs and LPs.

Already 25 years at the top of Yugoslav jazz scene, Uros Secerov had the privilege to work with most famous jazz artist of nowadays like Stjepko Steve Gut, Ratko Divjak, late Joze Privsek, Bubisa Simic, Stevan Radosavljevic and many others.
During his career he played with all Big Band Orchestra at the ex Yugoslav territory, making the special arrangements with RTV Ljubljana, Novi Sad and Belgrade Big Bands. He was playing in Vojislav Brkovic Quintet and latter with MEDAYA, cult band of the 80-es with Wolfgang Reisner and Beat Fuhrer. With Ratko Divjak, Lado Jaksa and Dani Gancev he played in SONCNA POT group who, for the first time, introduced ethno jazz elements fusion in our extent. After that he played in Lala Kovacs BALKAN IMPRESSION, YU JAZZ ROCK SELECTION, JOVAN MALJOKOVIC SEXTET, YU JAZZ SUMMIT, VOYA BEE – JIMI HENDRIX PURE, TONY SCOT ORCHESTRA …
Recently his main occupation is YUPIKA QUINTET with Ivan Aleksijevic, Bunford Gabor, Istvan Madjaric and Dusan Ivanisevic, which is concerned by critics to be big support to Yugoslav jazz scene after GUT-MARKOVIC SEXTET, as well as the first representative of Yugoslav jazz school.
Besides his concert activity, he recorded over 30 albums for different performers as studio musician, played at all relevant jazz festivals in Europe and recorded shows and concerts for home and foreign TV and radio stations.

Guitar player Primoz Grasic was born in 1968 in Kranj, Slovenia. After high school in Kranj he went abroad and studied guitar at the Klagenfurt Conservatoire. Very soon jazz bands and orchestras became aware of the young but very talented musician and so after his studies he immediately became a member of the “Greentown Jazz Band”. He was then cooperating with the “Dixieland” band from Kranj. His music career flourished after this and we can only share his biggest achievements with you. In the years 1991–93 he was a member of the “Ugrin-Divjak Quintet” and has regularly been cooperating with the “Big Band of RTVS” (Radio Television Slovenia) since 1992 he is also a member of “Bosko Petrovic's All Stars Band”, of “Ratko Divjak's Ensemble”, the “Dominik Kranjcan Quartet”, “SLO Jazz Project” and has been cooperating as a studio musician at many recordings of such bands as the “Big Band RTVS”, the “Big Orchestra” and the “Symphonic Orchestra of RTVS”, the “New Swing Quartet”, “Vocal Art”, “Alenka Godec”, “Darja Svajger”, “Janez Boncina”, “Marta Zore”… 
In 1998 he has been a full-time member of “Big Band RTV Slovenia” and the “Big Orchestra of RTV Slovenia”. 
In cooperation with Janez Boncina-Benc he has received two awards for his arrangements from International Professional Juries. In 1995 he was nominated for the musical award “Zlati Petelin” (Golden Rooster) for the best arrangement of a foreign song. He was then cooperating with the “Joze Privsek Orchestra” at concerts in Portoroz and in Ljubljana’s “Cankarjev Dom” and also as a studio musician at their recordings of more than sixty albums. In July 1993 he was performing at one of the biggest jazz festivals in Europe, in Perrugia, Italy. On his own and as a member of the “Greentown Jazz Band” in the “B.P. Club All Stars”, he was performing at jazz festivals all over America, Canada, Germany, Switzerland, England, Ireland, France, Italy, the Netherlands…
In October 1994 he was performing in Amsterdam as a member of the “EBU Big Band”, under the leadership of Jerry van Roojen and Henk Meutgeert, together with many different musicians such as N.H.O. Pedersen, Martin Drew, Alvin Queen, Gianni Basso, Toots Thielemans, Jimmy Woode, Clark Terry, Dusko Goykovich, Steve Gut, Bosko Petrovic, Csaba Deseo, Jesse Davis, Bobby Durham, Massimo Farao, Curtis Fuller, Dado Moroni, Manfred Josel, Evald Oberleitner, Tone Jansa, Red Halloway, Steve Swallow, Dennis McCrell, Ed Thigpen, Ray Brown, Helen Merrill, Gary Burton, Bruce Adams, Peter Mihelich, Mark Elf, Lasse Lindgren, Petar Ugrin, Mornington Locket, David Gazarov, Richard Buckley, Ratko Divjak, Lew Solloff, Alan Skidmore, Nigel Hitchcock, George Makinto, Fritz Pauer…
As a member of the “Big Band of RTV Slovenia” he has been cooperating with a variety of conductors such as: Peter Herbolzheimer, Herb Pomeroy, Jerry van Roojeen, David Deviliere, Walter Proost, Maria Schneider, Mathias Ruegg and the guests Ack van Roojen, Gary Burton, Johnny Griffin… 
In June 1995 he was a guest at the “Jazz Cruise” on ship AZUR under the leadership of the trumpet player Clark Terry, with such musicians as Ray Brown, Ed Thigpen and Curtis Fuller. 
Under the name “Primoz Grasic Trio” he recorded a CD with N. Pedersen and M. Drew in 1995 in Zagreb. The record was nominated as the best jazz record of 1995 in Croatia. 
In July 1996 he performed at the “European Jazz Night” in a trio with the well-known bassist Steve Swallow and the drum player Dennis McCrell. In June 1997 he performed with the “EBU Big Band” in Ljubljana as a representative of Slovenia with Joze Privsek as its conductor. After that at a jazz festival in a trio with Steve Swallow and Ratko Divjak. In the same year he received the two highest Slovene music awards (“Zlati Petelin 97”) in the field of jazz for the record “Noc ima tisoc oci” (A night has a thousand eyes) – “Primoz Grasic Quartet”.
In October 1997 he recorded a CD for the publishing house JAZZETTE in cooperation with two other famous European guitar players Ulf Wakenius and Phillip Chaterine, with Pedersen and Drew as the rhythm section. 
In April 1998 he performed in Italy as a member of the “Grasic-Ugrin Quintet” with David Gazarov as its guest, and was a guest at the “Zagreb Festival” in the same month. In July he performed in the same cast at a jazz festival in Ljubljana. In October 1998 he performed at the Jazz festival in Cork, Ireland as a member of the "B.P. All Stars Band" and in Sarajevo in the November.
In November 1999 he was cooperating with Fritz Pauer as a member of the “Happy Reunion Quartet”.
In January 1999 he cooperated at the recording of Ratko Divjak's album “Caravan”; in April of the same year he was co-working at Dominik Krajncan's “Bab'n'gabn Record” and in May on the album “Hunski hrbti” of the “Big Band RTV Slovenia” under the leadership of Milko Lazar.
At the 1999 “Ljubljana jazz festival” he performed as a member of the “Big Band” under the leadership of Maria Schneider and in August as a member of the “Heineken Tour” with George Makint.
In the beginning of October 1999 he performed in Zagreb as a guest of the “Big Band” of Damir Dicic and was a guest of the festival in Ireland – Cork with “B.P. All Stars” and Lew Soloff at the end of October 1999. 
In March 2000 he was working together with the well-known English saxophone players Alan Skidmore and Nigel Hitchcock.
In June 2000 he recorded CD "MY WISH" with smooth-jazz music.

Ales Avbelj was born 1969 in Ljubljana, Slovenia. First he studied clarinet for 10 years, at age 15 on high school he started to play double bass, which became his main interest later. He started his professional career in various casual bands. In 1994 he joined Greentown Jazz Band for a few years and took many European and American tours. As comprehensive musician playing both electric and acoustic bass he collaborate with many eminent domestic and foreign jazz musicians as well (Petar Ugrin, Peter Mihelich, Renato Chicco, Dominik Krajncan, James Morrison, Lee Harper, Dusko Goykovich, Gregory Hutchinson, David Gazarov). Since 1997 he is a premier bassist of the Big Band RTV SLOVENIA and has been cooperating with variety of artists such as Herb Pomeroy, Jerry van Roojeen, Walter Proost, Maria Schneider, Mathias Ruegg, Mike Westbrook, Fritz Pauer, Bobby Shew, Gary Burton. As a sideman he appears on dozens of recordings from jazz to pop music.