Rista Trajkovic
saxophone

DANILOV DOZIVLJAJ BECA (Danilo's Impressions of Vienna) in jazz variation was born in January 2000 in Vienna. There were studio musicians who worked in the Gertruden studio and the collaboration was started between the musicians from the existing band on one side and trumpet player Marijan Cvetanovic and saxophone player Rista Trajkovic on the other. They continued to work together and did a tour of France where they realized their project on authorial compositions of the band. All the members are currently living and working between Vienna and Nis. Their first public performance happened at the International Jazz Festival in Zelenkovac in 2003 because they still mainly work as studio musicians. The band consists of very young musicians with a pronounced individual expression somewhere on the border between Jamiroquai and Weather Report, although there is a little of Pat Matheny's music as well.

RISTA TRAJKOVIC was born in 1948 in Belgrade. He graduated from the Flute Department of the Music Academy in Belgrade (Professor Miodrag Azanjac). He did his Master degree at the Music Academy in Zagreb, the Saxophone Department, majoring in Contemporary Music (Professor Ozren Depola). Together with Ladislav Fidri he founded the Zagreb Jazz Sextet, and with Sasa Nestorovic - the Zagreb Wind Quartet. He spent two years working in the RTV Zagreb Jazz Orchestra as a baritone saxophone player and in the RTV Sarajevo Jazz Orchestra. Since 1976 he has been a member of the European BIG BAND with its headquarters in Brussels. Since 1989, he has been living in Nis. There he made a number of smaller bands and played in the NAISUS BIG BAND and the NISVIL BIG BAND. From 1992 to 1994 he was a member of the Afro Jazz Summit and the Ethno Connection in Rome. In 1995 he founded the School for Saxophone, which has produced a number of well-known young saxophone players who are now living and working abroad. He is in continuous collaboration with the RTV Sophia BIG BAND, whose conductor is Vili Kazasijan. He has performed with Jildiz Ibrahimova, Hilda Kazasijan, Jennifer O'Koneli, Ljubomir Denev, and Julian Janusev. He is an associate member of the Athens Youth BIG BAND. With the OK CONNECTION, in its last line up, he has played at all the jazz festivals in the country and abroad. Discography: Jazz Parallels 1, 2 and 3 - Sophia, Royal - Athens, Alfi - Sarajevo, Southside Story of Nis, and Ethno Mus 02.

MILOS VOJVODIC was born in 1979 in Nis. He is a student of the Music Academy in Sophia - the Jazz Department, majoring in Percussion. He works with the Gil Evans Orchestra as an additional study and is a member of the South Rhythm Section. He has participated in every festival in recent years, in the country as well as abroad, and received a special 'the best young jazz musician' award in Malme.

MARJAN CVETANOVIC was born in 1977 in Nis. He graduated from the Trumpet Department (Prof. Izudin Cavrikovic) in Belgrade. He is a very distinctive young trumpet player who works as a teacher in a secondary music school in Nis. He is a member of the Philharmonic and the 'OK Connection' group, and he also works with a few jazz bands in Nis. Discography: Process, Southside Story of Nis 2.

MILAN SRDANOVIC was born in 1979 in Nis where he received his secondary music education. His formative years were marked with various music directions. He played the saxophone for some time and also has a pronounced ethno direction (he plays the gusle - a traditional folk instrument with only one string). He works as a studio musician in a number of studios in the country and abroad. Discography: If Tomorrow Is the Same as Yesterday, Southside Story of Nis 2.

VLADICA BOGOSAVLJEVIC was born in 1981 in Nis. He completed his secondary music education, and is now in the final year of his Psychology studies. He has made music for a number of theatrical plays and participated in festivals in Italy and Poland. He is the author of one of the first musicals in Nis. He is constantly engaged in studios in Vienna, and is an eloquent guitarist whose playing is characterized by sudden melodic changes. Discography: If Tomorrow Is the Same as Yesterday, Southside Story of Nis 2.

NIKOLA RISTIC was born in 1982 in Nis. He finished solo singing in a secondary music school in Nis. He is currently studying Literature at the University of Nis. He is very interesting because he is a male solo vocalist in jazz, which is very rare in our country and abroad. He has collaborated on a few experimental vocal programmes in Bolcano (Italy) and Amsterdam (the Netherlands). He has continued to study Vocals at the Music Academy in Nis. He is occasionally engaged as a studio musician in Vienna. Discography: If Tomorrow is the Same as Yesterday, Southside Story of Nis 2, Vocal Eclipse, Green Flower No. 4.