“Strong soloists but mostly powerfull compositions that create an image or a sphere right away.” (Jazzenzo Magazine)
“Driving music with light balkan influence...” (De Volkskrant)

The Blazin' Quartet was formed in 2008 by a group of young musicians that share the passion for jazz music without any stylistic border or frame. The only standard in this band is compositional clarity, rhythmical richness and musicality.
They are influenced by the melodies and the rich rythmic culture of the Balkans, by jazz groups as E.S.T. and The Bad Plus a.o., blending in their knowledge of jazz together with influences from their roots and the sounds of today's reality (electronic music). The B.Q. plays music that is complex yet appealing to any listener, powerfull and energetic while keeping a subtle tone.
Already in April 2008 the band has won the Holland Jazz&Pop Casino Award and in July of the same year has won the prestigious Dutch Jazz Competition Best Group prize with it's bass player winning the Best Solioist award on the same competition. They have appeared on festivals such as Jazz-A-Palooza Festival in Utrecht and the North Sea Jazz Festival in Rotterdam.
The band is going to make the Young VIPs Tour in spring 2009 and appear at the North Sea Jazz Festival 2009. Their first record is in preparation, expecting to be released in December 2008.
The members of the band are based in Amsterdam and Den Haag and have studied (or still study) in The Netherlands and are active in the Dutch music scene, and with the Blazin' Quartet they are finding the way to express their voice.
links: www.myspace.com/blazinquartet; www.srdjanovic.com; www.michaelrorby.com

Born in Sarajevo in 1983, due to a musical surrounding Srdjan Ivanovic started playing music from an early age, first piano at the age of 6, and after moving to Greece in 1992, drums from the age of 13.
As a percussionist he was awarded twice the first prize and once the second prize in 3 consecutive years at the 'Hellenic Traditional Music Competition'.
In April 2008 he won the Holland Casino Jazz&Pop Award with his band the "Blazin' Quartet". The band won the Dutch Jazz Competition, with the finals held at the North Sea Jazz festival, in July of the same year.
He has performed live in Greece, Holland, Serbia, Bosnia, Italy, Poland, Egypt and played and recorded with many of Greece’s finest musicians (Yotis Kiourtsoglou, David Lynch, Dimitris Tsakas, Giorgos Palamiotis, Harris Lambrakis, Dimos Dimitriadis, Mark v/d Feen, Paul v/d Feen, Slobodan Trkulja a.o.), and in Holland as a member of his father's band 'Levantina' and of other bands.
As a member of the Dutch based Balkan-mestizo-puk band “Mala Vita” he has toured Holland and Europe and played at many important festivals.
Besides playing with Amsterdam based bands such as the “Branko Galoic Band” and “Pencilbrain”, he has been the co-creator of “Official Language”, whose first album “Talking” is expected to be released in 2008.
Currently, he is leading his band of creative musicians, the “Blazin' Quartet”, with which he is appearing on two important festivals in 2008, the Jazz-A-Paloozza in Utrecht and the North Sea Jazz in Rotterdam, while with Mala Vita he is to appear at a.o Parkpop in Den Haag.