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JAZZ EX TEMPORE (Multi-cultural musical project)
Jazz Ex Tempore was initiated in 2005. The project was inspired by a need for an institutional education in the field of Croatian musical heritage, as well as its similarities and differences with other cultural traditions. The project has three stages, the first and third taking place in Croatia and the second abroad. The project is aimed at gathering experts in our own cultural heritage as well as the contemporary music trends from different European and world regions and countries, who would play together during their one-week stay in Opatija, Croatia, creating a fusion of different music traditions, and sharing their experiences with the public through workshops. Jazz Ex Tempore – 2005–2008: Participants of the first four editions of Jazz Ex Tempore were artists from Europe (Italy, Great Britain, Finland, Bulgaria, the Netherlands, Austria, Russia, France, Macedonia, Serbia, Slovenia, Croatia), Asia (Armenia, Indonesia), Africa (Mali) and Latin America (Cuba, Mexico). Those were: Cheik-Tidiane Seck (keyboards, Mali), Silvano Mustelier Cabrejas (percussions, Cuba), Arnaud Delafosse (drums, France), Vasil Hadžimanov (piano, keyboards, Macedonia) Giovanni Toffoloni (bass, Italy), Elvis Stanić (guitar, Croatia), Eric Zawinul (percussions, Austria), Karin Asatrian (piano, Armenia), Jose Leonardo Angel Rodrigez (drums, Cuba), Vladimir Samardžić (bass, Serbia), Putokazi (vocal group, Croatia), Enzo Favata (saxophone, traditional and classical wind instruments, Italy), Daniele Di Bonaventura (piano, bandoneon, Italy), Yuri Goloubev (double bass, Russian), Ratko Divjak (drums, Slovenia), Silvia Abalos (classical ballet and traditional dance, mime, vocal, Mexico), Johanna Juhola (accordion, Finland), Andrea Vicary (piano, Great Britain), Rico De Jeer (double bass, the Netherlands), Hristo Yotsv (drums, Bulgaria). There were 19 workshops open and free for the public where the artists spoke about their cultural traditions, their own artistic path and creative process, thus sharing their knowledge and experience with young people who make the majority of our audience. In November 2008 the artists gave Master Class about Croatian traditional music and their experiences from London’s Trinity College of Music. Since 2008 the project has been extended both in Croatia and abroad. The final concert which was previously organised only in Opatija, took place in Zagreb as well (The Croatian Jazz Convention, BP Club), and after Croatia, it moved to the countries of the participating artists. So in 2008, the compositions created in Croatia were presented at concerts in Great Britain (three concerts in London, November 2008), Bulgaria (four concerts in Sofia and Plovdiv, October 2009), and the Netherlands (three concerts in Groningen, Utrecht and Leimuiden, March 2009), while the great finale was within the 9th Liburnia Jazz Festival 2009 with the promotion of the CD Round Trip under the Croatia Records label. In 2007 the compositions performed at the final concerts 2005 and 2006 were released on a CD under the Croatia Records label. CD ”Jazz Ex Tempore” has won the following awards: Porin in 2008 in the category Best Jazz Album – for the album ”Jazz Ex Tempore ’05/’06”; Porin in 2008 in the category Best Jazz Composition – for the composition Angiolina from the ”Jazz Ex Tempore ’05/’06” album; Porin in 2008 in the category Best Jazz Performance – for the performance of the Angiolina from the ”Jazz Ex Tempore ’05/’06” album. Jazz Ex Tempore 2009-2010: The participants of the 5th Jazz Ex Tempore are artists from Serbia, Italy and Croatia: Ivan Aleksijević (piano, Serbia), Goran Rukavina (double bass, Croatia), Paolo Muscovi (drums, Italy) and Elvis Stanić (guitar, Croatia). The 5th Jazz Ex Tempore edition presented artists in workshops in Vila Antonio in Opatija from 19th to 21st October 2009, and the final concerts were held on 22nd October in BP Club in Zagreb and 23rd October in Vila Angiolini in Opatija. The musicians also took part in the Jazzik Festival in Subotica where they gave a workshop for the students of the Music School in Subotica. The repertoire generated at the 5th Jazz Ex Tempore Project edition consists of both the original and rearranged Serbian, Croatian and Italian traditional compositions, such as: Mali mrav / Little Ant; Čaše lomim / Breaking the Glass; Rusulica; Ju te san se zajubija; Naranča; Trieste mia... |
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Elvis Stanić, guitar, accordeon, artistic director
Elvis Stanić has been the artistic director of the Jazz Ex Tempore project since 2005, and is one of the best contemporary Croatian guitarists. He leads his own Elvis Stanić Group, a jazz fusion ensemble blending Mediterranean harmony of the traditional Croatian music with the rhythms of the Latino idiom and contemporary jazz tendencies. As a composer, he is dedicated to exploring Croatian and world traditional music, which makes him one of the leading figures in the field of world music in Croatia. He has received a number of national and international awards for music art and culture (13 Porin awards for discography, 5 Croatian Music Union’s Status awards,...), and in 2008 he was awarded the Medal of the Danica of Croatia Order with the likeness of Marko Marulić for Special Contributions to Culture. |
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Goran Rukavina is a leading Croatian jazz double bass player. He graduated in Double Bass and Electric Bass from the University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz, under Professor Wayne Darling. From 2002 to 2008 he was a member of the HGM Jazz Orchestra led by Sigi Feigel. With the HGM Jazz Orchestra he has toured all over the world (Indonesia, USA, Europe) and shared the stage with many leading world musicians: Bobby Shew, Peter Erskine, Bob Mintzer & Yellowjactes, Randy Brecker, Jim McNeely, Michael Mossman, John Riley, Peter Herbolzhimer, John Thomas, Dick Oats, Deborah Brown... Combo collaborations include: Don Menza, Byron Montley, Steve Gut, Charlie Jurković, Boško Petrović, Nikola Mimo-Mitrović, Matija Dedić, Miro Kadoić, Davor Križić, Saša Nestorović, Ratko Divjak, Primož Grašić, Tamara Obrovac, HRT Big Band, RTV Slovenia Big Band, etc. Since 2005 he has been playing the double bass with the Elvis Stanić Group. He has been awarded the Croatian Music Union’s Status award (Croatian Music Union) for Best Jazz Double Bass Player in 2007, 2008, 2009. |
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Paolo Muscovi is one of the most promising contemporary drummers of Italy. He has performed with Antonio Marangolo, Flavio Boltro, Glauco Venier, Gianni Basso, James Thompson, Robero Bonnisola, Andrea Allione and Aldo Mela. |
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Ivan Aleksijević, born in 1971 in Pančevo, has been a permanent member of the Big Band RTS since 1995. Without any musical prejudice he collaborates with a number of prominent national and international musicians from the jazz, pop and rock scene. He was a member of Laki pingvini, a Quartet, Jazz Space Quintet, and worked with Dusko Goykovich, Steve Gut, Šaban Bajramović, Rambo Amadeus – whose compositions he has arranged for the 60th anniversary of the Big Band RTS. |
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