Vladimir Jakovljevic was born in 1978. in Novi Sad. He is a self-taught guitar player. He spent one year at Jazz Academy in Graz, Austria. During last few years he work as a freelance musician. He has collaborated with almost every jazz musicians from Novi Sad in various bands and occasions.
Inspiration: Wes Montgomery, George Benson, Pat Metheny, Kurt Rosenwinkel...

Werner Mras (4. 8. 1959. Vienna, Austria). A manager of the Austrian Authors Rights Society started to play the drums at the age of 13 in the time of the “After Woodstock Groove”. Making the first musical steps with a lot of rock playing friends and feeling the tension of gig situations, he met some of Viennese based Roma Musicians with strong family tradition in playing Jazz. In 1979 he met Sasa Dujin. They founded the “Sasa Dujin Quartet” which from now on should be a fixed point in his life. Absolving tours with many touching moments, CD productions and the possibility of making music every day was basis for opening up the spirit of “Stage Communication”. Feeling the power of sensitive steering a whole band with a single smooth stroke is passion for him. Today he is part of Vienna’s Jazz community playing with many members of Austrians Jazz family.

Being at the top of the Yugoslav jazz scene for over 30 years, Uros Secerov had a privilege of working with the most famous contemporary jazz artists such as Stjepko Gut, Ratko Divjak, late Joze Privsek, Bubisa Simic, Stevan Radosavljevic and many others. During his career he has had the opportunity to play with all Big Band Orchestras of the ex-Yugoslav territory, playing as a soloist with the RTV Ljubljana, Novi Sad and Belgrade Big Bands. He played in the Vojislav Brkovic Quintet and later with Medaya, the cult band of the 80’s with Wolfgang Reisinger and Beat Fuhrer. With Ratko Divjak, Lado Jaksa and Dani Gancev he played in the group Soncna pot, the first to introduce ethno jazz elements fusion in our parts. After that he played in Lala Kovacev Balkan Impression, YU Jazz rock selection, the Jovan Maljokovic Sextet, YU Jazz summit, Voya Bee – Jimmy Hendrix Pure, the Tony Scot Orchestra, … His YUPIKA Quintet with Ivan Aleksijevic, Bunford Gabor, Istvan Madjaric and Dusan Ivanisevic, received excellent critiques being labeled the greatest support to the Yugoslav jazz scene since the appearance of the Gut-Markovic Sextet as well as representative number one of the Yugoslav jazz school. Besides his concert activity, he has recorded over 30 albums for different performers as a studio musician, played at all relevant jazz festivals in Europe and recorded shows and concerts for home and foreign TV and radio stations. He was Art Director of Novi Sad Jazz Festival 2003 / 2004.

Saxophone player Adam Klem was born in 1976 in Novi Sad, Serbia. Upon graduating from music high school “Isidor Bajic” in Novi Sad, Clarinet Section, he continued his education at the “University for Music and Fine Arts” in Graz, Austria. In 2005 he earned his MA for Jazz Saxophone. During his studies in Graz, he won a scholarship from the Austrian Ministry for Culture, to study at the prestigious “Sibelius” Academy in Helsinki, Finland. After he returned from Finland, he preformed with the Austrian jazz legend, guitar player Karl Ratzer, and recorded a CD with the band “Minority” from Sarajevo. His professors were, among others: Nikola Srdic, Pete Djuro, Vastag István, Papp József, Tűzkő Csaba, Karlheinz Miklin, Heinrich von Kalnein, Eero Koivistoinen, Jari Perkiomäki, Manuel Dunkel, Jasper Blom, Sasa Nestorovic. Adam has performed with various bands in countries such as: Finland, Sweden, Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Serbia, Croatia, Germany, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Austria, Egypt and Italy. His professional career started with the Radio Television Novi Sad Dance Orchestra, and he has performed with: Gianni Basso, Lee Harper Little Big Band, Karl Ratzer, Barbara Hendriks, Ladislav Fidri, the Sinan Alimanovic International Band, Karlheinz Miklin, Marko Djordjevic, Marimanga, Minority, Gabriele Centis, Angelo Comisso, the Dance Orchestra of RTV Novi Sad, the KUG Big Band Graz, the Big Band RTV of Slovenia, the Big Band Radovljica, the Big Band Grosuplje, the Big Band Radlje, Musical “Cabaret” MGL, Renato Chicco, Ratko Divljak, Primoz Grasic, Ales Avbelj, Blaz Jurjevcic, Drago Gajo, Tadej Tomsic, Matjaz Mikuletic, Zoran Skrinjar, Jazz Sacral-Nada Zgur, Jure Pukl, Robert Jukic, Primoz Fleischmann, Klemen Kotar, Igor Lunder with Reeds, Nikola Matosic, Izidor Leitinger, Jani Moder, Erik Marence, Marco Quarantotto, Ljubisa Matic, Igor Molnar, Aleksandar Bahun, Milan Simin, Dejan Djukanovic, Aleksandar Dujin, Fedor Ruskuc, Uwe Plath, Predrag Peric-Preda, Andjelko Stupar, Milan Nikolic, Daniel Nösig, Armend Xhaferi’s Marimanga, Enes Seferovic, Wolfgang Rainer, Vladimir Kostadinovic, Erik Rothenstein, Maja Jaku, Sasa Mutic, Dusan Novakov, Amar Cesljar, Dino Sukalo, etc. Adam is currently living in Ljubljana, Slovenia. He teaches saxophone, clarinet and he cooperates with the Big Band of RTV Slovenia, as well as with the Ratko Divljak Group, performs with various orchestras, and is one of the selectors of the Novi Sad Jazz Festival. The first CD with his original music “Hot Coollen” (Sensor Records) was released in fall of 2007. Adam has been performing with his band since 1999. They started off as a classical jazz quartet, then quintet (saxophone- trumpet), and finally Adam found the sound he was looking for in classical jazz quintet formation (saxophone- guitar- piano- double bass- drums). They have performed at various festivals and jazz clubs, such as: Novi Sad Jazz Festival, Münsterland Festival, Applause Club Wiesbaden, Jazz Club Lustenau, Jazzbina Clubbing Pula, Jazz Club Zagreb, Dizzy's Beograd, Colosseum Sarajevo, etc.

Born in 1980 in Novi Sad, Fedor started playing the violin at the age of six. After switching to double bass, he continued his studies in the Jazz Department of Music Academy in Graz in the class of Prof. Wayne Darling, where he graduated in 2002. He moved to Cologne to study with Prof. Dieter Manderscheid (High School for Music) where he finished his studies. Since 1999 he has regularly performed at the Novi Sad Jazz Festival with Adam Klemm bands. He has also performed in the ensembles of his professors from the Graz Academy (Peter Kunsek and Andre Jeancartier). He was an assistant for the master classes in Vrnjacka Banja in 2002, under the leadership of Stjepko Gut and has participated in the workshops held by Joe Labarber, Niels H.O. Pedesen, Barre Phillips, Claudio Roditi and others. Ruskuc has cooperated with many musicians from Europe and beyond. In 2006 he won prizes at the Getxo International Competition in Spain and the Hoeilaart Jazz Contest in Belgium with the Magnus Mehl Quintet. He has appeared at festivals all over Europe and throughout Russia. Ruskuc has recorded for Errabal Records with the Magnus Mehl Quintet and for Sonig Records with the VERT I Band, as well as with pianist Galja Vranesevic as a part of Novara Vert Remixes. He is a member of the Novi Sad Jazz Festival Council.

The pianist Josip Lorbek was born in 1933 in Vrsac into a musical family. He finished Music High School „Isidor Bajic“ in 1952, class of professor Stular. Between 1954 and 1958 he studied at the Faculty of Philosophy, where he graduated at the department of German and English Language. In 1959 he enters the Radio Novi Sad Octet as its leader. In 1961 it developed into Dance Orchestra of Radio Novi Sad. From 1969 to 1971 he studied in Graz at Music Academy, Jazz Department composition and conduction. He has participated in summer campuses at Berkley School in Boston. He has been the conductor of Dance Orchestra of Radio Novi Sad since 1981. Appeared at Jazz festivals – I, II, III Jazz Festival in Bled, Jazz Festival in Skopje, Zagreb, Ljubljana, Novi Sad, Belgrade, and abroad – in Budapest, Berlin, Burghauzen. Taken part in all meetings of dance and jazz orchestras of Yugoslavia, in Radenci. Especially devoted to discovering young talents, jazz singers, in Novi Sad and other cities. He composes and arranges jazz compositions for big bands. Some of his works have also been performed by orchestras abroad. Last year, Josip Lorbek celebrated the 55th anniversary of his work as an artist. He is one of those who have been struggling to gain back the characteristics of a town of music, especially jazz, for Novi Sad and fought for the affirmation of young talented musicians. He received Charter of the Association of Jazz Musicians of Yugoslavia and Culture Spark of Vojvodina (Iskra kulture Vojvodine).