Zlatko Kaučič and a Slovenian-Italian avant-garde jazz all-star ensemble to pay tribute to the memory of the founder and longtime head of the festival Jazz Cerkno, Boštjan Cvek, playing their sparky new music. At this occasion, the band are presenting a brand new concert album featuring recordings of their last year’s concert at the 20th
Zlatko Kaučič and a Slovenian-Italian avant-garde jazz all-star ensemble to pay tribute to the memory of the founder and longtime head of the festival Jazz Cerkno, Boštjan Cvek, playing their sparky new music. At this occasion, the band are presenting a brand new concert album featuring recordings of their last year’s concert at the 20th edition of the festival, released on Klopotec label, at the same time warming up for the 21st Jazz Cerkno.
CERKNO JUBILEUM ORCHESTRA
Musicians:
BOŠTJAN SIMON – alt sax
CENE RESNIK – tenor sax
VITJA BALŽALORSKY – electric guitar
JOŠT DRAŠLER – acoustic bass
VID DRAŠLER – drums, percussion
MARKO LASIČ – drums, percussion
MIMO COGLIANDRO – bass clarinet, soprano
GABRIELE CANCELLI – trumpet
LUIGI VITALE – vibraphone
GIORGIO PACORIG – fender Rhodes, effects
GIOVANNI MAIER – acoustic bass
Conductor and composer: ZLATKO KAUČIČ
Praise for the Jazz Cerkno 2015 concert:
As a tribute to Jazz Cerkno, our most inventive jazzer Zlatko Kaučič led his jubilee orchestra composed of his promising students and seasoned Italian guests to perform his own and other known compositions in an energetic and emotional manner. They sowed a trance of cheerfulness among the audience (in the music, there were hints of the Slovenian bearer of cheerfulness, Kekec, as well). As monologues and dialogues of instruments and the highly concentrated entries of various sections died away, and the whole range from melodies to piercing bawls was an account of jazz and its rich heritage in Cerkno, and of Boštjan, the musicians formed a line and waved the sky goodbye as a tribute to him.
(Primorske Novice-Saša Dragoš)
For this occasion, Zlatko Kaučič devised and again brought together Slovenian and Italian music improvisers into the Cerkno Jubileum Orchestra. The moment when Kozina’s theme from the film On Our Own Land rose from the zealously conducted collective improvisation, only to be followed by the Kekec theme weaving through the valleys of music, was one of the most heartfelt moments of the festival. (Ičo Vidmar-Dnevnik)
Organised by: Kino Šiška in cooperation with Jazz Cerkno.
