Jazz

Samo Salamon, Arild Andersen & Patrice Heral: Songs. The album officially drops in September 2026. It features 11 tracks contributed by all three players, and the lineup is top-notch, since Arild and Patrice have been fixtures of the…

Ralph Towner has died at the age of 85! Towner was an American multi-instrumentalist, composer, arranger and bandleader. Among other things, he mastered the twelve-string guitar, classical guitar, piano, synthesizer, percussion, trumpet…

Self-releasedRelease date: September 15, 2024Genre: Jazz / Jazz Rock FusionRating: 9.0/10 After three studio albums and one live record, the Prekmurje jazz and jazz rock fusion outfit džeZZva has decided it's time for its first…

Jonathan Kreisberg QuartetThursday, 18 July 2024, from 8:30 PM onwardsPostojna / Titov trg / Slovenia Jazz hasn't exactly been a fixture on Rockline's concert menu for a while now. Or has it? Since this May, when we twice 'strayed'…

Bill Evans & The Vansband All StarsPortorož / Avditorij Portorož / SloveniaSaturday, May 18, 2024 Bill Evans is a saxophone legend — and we can say that with absolute certainty today. Over his storied career, the man first made…

The Wooten BrothersThursday, 9 May 2024, at 8:00 PMPortorož / Avditorij / Slovenia The Wooten Brothers' visit to Portorož's Avditorij delivered one of the concert highlights of the year when it comes to jazz programming in Slovenia.…

Self-releasedRelease date: November 26, 2022Production: Dejan Berden & džeZZvaAlbum length: 62.21 minGenre: Jazz/Jazz Rock FusionRating: 10/10BUY THE ALBUM! Four years is a bit of a gap in the studio-album biorhythm of džeZZva,…

Wayne Shorter, 12-time Grammy winner, saxophonist and composer who spent more than half a century crafting the unique sound of modern jazz, died on Monday, March 2, in Los Angeles. Shorter was 89 years old. Shorter is considered one of…

Label: earMUSICRelease date: 8/27/2021Production: Robben Ford & Casey WasnerAlbum length: 39.37 minGenre: Jazz / Blues / Jazz-Rock FusionRating: 9.0/10 Robben Ford is a musician who needs no introduction. Globally speaking, he's…

Label: CelinkaRelease date: February 8, 2021 (digital) / May 2021 (vinyl)Production: Janez DovčGenre: Folk/World Music/Pop/Art Rock/Jazz FusionRating: 9.5/10 Janez Dovč is a major name on the Slovenian music scene. He's the boss of…

Label: Nika RecordsRelease date: October 2, 2020Production: Primož GrašičAlbum length: 59.25 minGenre: JazzRating: 10/10 Last October, Slovenian jazz drummer Ratko Divjak celebrated his seventieth birthday. To mark the occasion,…

Label: Samo RecordsRelease date: 26. 10. 2020Production: Samo ŠalamonAlbum length: 64.24 minGenre: Contemporary JazzRating: 9.5/10 Samo Šalamon is a musical phenomenon. And not just when we're talking about the Slovenian music scene…

Self-releasedRelease date: September 10, 2020Production: Žiga Fabbro & Samo TurkAlbum length: 36.04 minGenre: Ethno/Folk/JazzRating: 8.0/10 Samo Turk and Žiga Fabbro are two musicians who go way back. They've been playing…

Label: Gentle Art Of MusicRelease date: September 18, 2020Production: Victor Bullok & Jan ZehrfeldAlbum length: 51.17 minGenre: Jazz/Avantgarde-Metal/Progressive MetalRating: 10/10 German jazz, funk and prog metal…

Location: Cerkno / Star plac / SloveniaDate: Friday, July 17, 2020 Yet another seriously fresh evening that we had the privilege of spending in Cerkno brought us there on the wings of an exciting concert announcement — another…

Location: Cerkno / Star plac / SloveniaDate: Saturday, 11 July 2020 After a blunt dose of that brave new world reality — the one we sink deeper into day by day, with no salvation in sight until the final catharsis (that is, the…

»From This Place« is a real treat for fans of refined, old-school jazz fusion dressed up with superb orchestral touches, and a wonderful experience for anyone who worships Metheny's guitar artistry.

"Despite the fact that the trio must stay locked in at all times, Gorilla Mask keep teasing the listener with the shock element of 'expect the unexpected.' The band deftly rolls between calm, almost subtle passages, then suddenly erupts…

"Let's hope that, given how deeply the musicians are involved in all sorts of other projects and challenges, Brest stick around and become a fixture, one that keeps enriching the often idea-starved Slovenian music scene with its homegrown,…

"The 25th international festival of (good music) known as Keltika invited the Scandinavian — more precisely Norwegian — jazz outfit Cortex to Cerkno as its opening concert of the year."

"A concert of exceptional qualities, as one might quietly have expected. A concert that leaves you with powerful, intense feelings — and one that, even after it ends, holds you in a state of rapt absorption, caught in the creation of a…

"Alongside original compositions that Frank Zappa himself would surely have listened to on endless repeat, the real highlights were the rock classics that Chadbourne and Schröder turned completely on their heads."

"At 68, Stanley Clarke and his crew proved once again in Ljubljana that he's one of a kind, an unrepeatable, elusive original in his craft, and that his shows are a magnificent, spectacular musical experience."

" In relentless rain, then, the crowd pulled off a real act of heroism, born of a deep, sincere love of music, and Marcus Milller and his crew simply had to reward it with an outstanding show. "

Snarky Puppy's gig was a huge success despite the rain. The crowd made it clear that a return visit is more than welcome, because watching musicians play with this much perfectionism is a real treat.

"Agora" is the debut studio album from seasoned, battle-tested musicians, the Slovenian jazz and blues rock sextet Emil And The Detectives, and it sounds like the seventies never ended."

"All in all, an exceptionally beautiful jazz album, and really an elegant culmination of the maturity of all the knowledge, experience and skill picked up along the musical road of one of the greatest drum masters in Slovenian jazz."

"Right from the start, especially after the quirky and lucid escapades of their cheerful, always-up-for-a-good-joke leader Christian Kühn, Kuhn Fu made it clear they've got a mild, almost hidden "drawl" of parodic provocation, or, to put it…

"With this much talent among young Slovenian jazz musicians, as radiated by the third generation of Zlatko's protégés on the album »Petelin iz Noznega«, there's really no need to worry about the future of good jazz in Slovenia."

"With »Nouvi sad«, ŠKM Banda have soared straight to the zenith of their creativity, delivering an album we can already call one of the best Slovenian rock releases that 2019 has given us or ever will!"

Label: Celinka Release date: 01.09.2018 Producer: Dejan Berden Over the years Ethnotrip have developed a chemistry all their own. It's a singular weave of instrumental playing, ruled of course by an endearing, endlessly yearning female…

"An outstanding show of experimental jazz excess from the four-piece collective Shanir Blumenkranz’ Abraxas, walking in John Zorn's footsteps in Slovenia's jazz temple, Cerkno."

"Dave Bruebeck, who?!?! Ha, ha."

place: Cerkno / Stari plac / Slovenia date: 19.05.2018 Day three, and Cerkno again? Of course! Jazz plus every other kind of cultural and artistic creativity the festival always has room for. We started the morning with Gombač's…

location: Cerkno / Stari plac / Slovenia date: 18.05.2018 And then came day two of this year's 23rd edition of the traditional Jazz Cerkno festival. Once again with three seriously interesting acts on the bill. And once again the clock…

location: Cerkno / Star plac / Slovenia date: 17.05.2018 The year has come around again, and with it a new edition of the legendary Jazz Cerkno festival. Believe it or not, it's the 23rd one! As always, going to this event is about way…

"An album that will make even those music lovers who normally run a mile from the word jazz fall for the genre. An album whose perfection lets it go toe to toe with its contemporaries on the international stage without breaking a sweat.…

Location: Ljubljana / Orto bar / SloveniaDate: Thursday, November 16, 2017 Years ago, it was hard to imagine that modern progressive bands could fill even a smaller concert hall. Acts like Animals As Leaders, Scale The Summit and…

"Cabaret chanson with a female voice front and center, where different genres deftly pass the baton to one another, ends up as a blend of them all and a real eclecticism. That was also the core aim of the album 'Nemi film'."

Location: Cerkno / Star plac / Slovenia Date: Saturday, May 20, 2017 Day three of the traditional, and by now 22nd, Jazz Cerkno Festival had arrived. This one was special because female jazz players absolutely dominated the lineup!…

Label: ZKP RTV SlovenijaRelease date: July 1, 2016Production: Igor MatkovičGenre: JazzRating: 10/10 Composer, producer, pianist, but first and foremost the established Slovenian jazz trumpeter Igor Matkovič is back with a new album,…

" Top-notch, eye-catching, wholehearted, and played with incredible delight and a hefty dose of full-blooded fun. Throughout, the show also came with just the right amount of cheekiness and dark humor, which Hamm used to talk to the crowd…

Location: Cerkno / Stari plac / SloveniaDate: Saturday, 05/21/2016 The third and final day of the traditional 21st jazz festival in Cerkno was a lively one from the morning on. The side program kicked off with a hike for the…

"b musically cunning weirdness, a generous dose of the contagious humor of this wildly likeable quintet, who will hopefully be back on our turf soon to deliver a fresh helping of musical delights from their story of Scandinavian jazz vibes…

"The point of fusing accordion, tuba and percussion into one unconventional, out-of-the-ordinary musical body hits its mark with sheer audacity. It serves up a completely autonomous musical experience that's hard to pin down with any real…

Label: Self-released Release year: 2013 Production: Peter Ošlaj & Ethnotrip Album length: 46.32 Ethnotrip is a quartet that plays folk standards. They only formed in 2009 and they're young going by the birth years on their ID cards,…

"»Drenov Grič« hasn't just held onto the musical identity Nula Kelvina laid out on their debut, it digs deeper into that story and stretches it wider."

Label: CelinkaRelease date: April 11, 2012Producer: Igor MatkovićGenre: JazzRating: 9.0/10 A familiar face at the Ljubljana music conservatory, a trumpet professor, composer, arranger, pianist and above all trumpeter, Igor…

"The album "Možgani na paši" is a pearl that the label Celinka found at the right moment, in the right place. Check it out, no excuses. The most authentic gist of Slovenianness in poetry and music. Wash at Nula Kelvina, so your brains light…

""Open Heart Surgery" is an album that, with its unshakable and utterly unique message, puts Grega Habič among the world's elite Earthlings, and one that can make even the biggest masterminds in this game prick up their ears at any moment,…

Location: Piazza Unita / Tarvisio (Trbiž) / Italy Date: Thursday, July 22, 2010 "The Song Book" is the name of the tour that has brought the American jazz fusion outfit Pat Metheny Group back to Europe! Since cloning is still too…

"Hanging out with Steve and Djabe was one of those magical concert nights that everyone there, especially those of us who got a short chat with the legend, won't forget anytime soon."

"If the whole thing carries real expressive depth, a hefty essence of the very spirit of the form it creates, serving up a unique, hard-to-replicate stamp of the moment captured by the developmental step that is the album "Self Destruct…

"Living Colour are poison, you see, especially for metalheads who want to spit out an identical copy on stage of what their studio work sounds like, frozen on tape. It's exactly this disregard for following set templates that sets the band…

"Catharsis is a record that took the best from guitar giants like Petrucci, Vai, Satriani, Hendrix and the like, then piled a heaping helping of uniqueness and individuality on top of the masters' lessons. With this release, Grega Habič has…