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It is our pleasure to announce the sixteenth edition of the festival Jazz Appreciation Month in Montenegro, which will take place from 4th to 30th April, 2023 under the motto \u201cBalkan France Jazz Connection.\u201d With this motto, we want to highlight the participation of our Jazz Art organization and the Capital City in the project \u201cR\u00e9seau Jazz France-Balkans\u201d which affirms the connection of cities and jazz organizations from the Balkans and France in order to establish a more dynamic and continuous international cooperation in that field. During the festival, the delegation of this network will visit Podgorica, where they will familiarize themselves with part of the program of our festival and hold meetings concerning the possibility of further development of the jazz network project and mutual cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As part of the concert program of the festival, we single out the following ensembles and artists, who will perform in Podgorica for the first time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Elina Duni & Rob Luft Band <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

April 4, KIC \u201dBudo Tomovi\u0107\u201d, 20.00<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Swiss-Albanian singer Elina Duni is known for her music which combines traditional Albanian songs and jazz. After she signed a contract with ECM Records in 2012, her career gained an international dimension and critics around the world recognized her musical talent. Out of ten albums she recorded under her own name, five were released by ECM. She recorded her new album Lost Ships in 2020, in collaboration with guitarist Rob Luft, a BBC artist and a rising star of the London jazz scene. In addition to performing folk songs in unique arrangements, these two artists create music together inspired by contemporary themes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ethno Jazz Group Trigon<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

April 7, KIC \u201cBudo Tomovi\u0107\u201d, 20:00<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ethno-jazz group Trigon is led by Anatol Stefanet, composer and violist, merited artist of Moldova. This year, the group will celebrate three decades of work and presence on the international music scene. At the very beginning of their career in 1994, they won the prestigious \u201cCharles Cros\u201d award of the French Academy of Arts for debut album \u201cMoldavian Weeding in Jazz.\u201d So far, they have won various other awards and recorded 14 self-titled albums. Through the combination of different elements of folk, jazz, rock and symphonic music, the musicians achieve a fascinating synthesis of the indigenous musical tradition and the cosmopolitan spirit of jazz thanks to their improvisational and virtuoso skills. Trigon represents Moldovan-Romanian art at its best.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Slaven Ljuji\u0107 Trio feat. Baptiste Herbin <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

April 11, the courtyard of the Kuslev\u2019s house, 20:00<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Montenegrin jazz musician Slaven Ljuji\u0107, drummer, percussionist, bassist, educated at the Berklee Academy of Music in Boston, has recently founded his trio by building bridges of cooperation with outstanding musicians who live outside of Montenegro. All of them are prone to musical improvisation and the spontaneous joint creation of music on the concert stage. The musicians try to bring their expression and sound to a new level, using the method of composing on the spot, through the imagination and connection of the energies of the trio members. The motto of this trio \u201cwithout borders\u201d signifies the desire for freedom to create new works at their performances and thus expand their own boundaries. On this special occasion the trio will introduce jazz master Baptiste Herbin, a French saxophonist who will bring new musical colors and shapes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Adis Sirbubalo<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

April 12, KIC \u201cBudo Tomovi\u0107\u201d, 20:00<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pianist Adis Sirbubalo promotes his solo repertoire with two albums published by Gramofon from Sarajevo (2020 and 2022). In the late 1990s, he studied in the USA, where he later graduated jazz at Columbia College in Chicago. He improved his knowledge on the courses of great masters such as Roscoe Mitchell and Anthony Braxton and collaborated with famous jazz cats such as Eddie Gomez, Christian McBride and Chuchito Valdes. He won the prize for the best solo performance at the American jazz festivals Elmhurst and Notre Dame. The repertoire of his solo concert is a combination of original pieces and traditional music, especially sevdalinka, which Adis presents on an instrument unusual for Bosnian traditional music.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sa\u0161o Popovski Trio feat. Olivier Samouillan<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

April 25, KIC \u201cBudo Tomovi\u0107\u201d, 20:00<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guitarist Sa\u0161o Popovski is a composer of melodies with clean lines, clear structures and vivid imagination. Rhythmically and melodically, his music is reminiscent of oriental patterns, which makes it somewhat mystical, but not hermetic. His new album Fallen Land was published by the SJF from Skopje. In addition to an active artistic career, recordings and frequent appearances at festivals in the region and Europe, Popovski is also engaged as a professor at the jazz department at the University \u201cGoce Del\u010dev\u201d in \u0160tip. The trio often tours along with Olivier Samouillan, French multi-instrumentalist and composer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ensemble Nikolov-Ivanovi\u0107 Undectet<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

April 30, the courtyard of the Kuslev\u2019s house, 20:00<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two musicians from the Balkans, Vladimir Nikolov and Srdjan Ivanovi\u0107, united their talents and previous experiences to create a joint ensemble of 11 musicians from different backgrounds (Balkans\/France). While Nikolov excels in working with world orchestras and ensembles and on film projects, such as the Oscar-winning \u201cThe Artist\u201d, Ivanovic is active in smaller ensembles; the audience remembers him as the leader of the Blazin\u2019 Quartet, which represents an original vision of merging modern European jazz with Balkan influences. The ensemble released two albums, Artistry in Broken Rhythm and Frame and Curiosity, and won first prize at the jazz competition Made in New York in 2019. The American magazine Jazz Times ranked this ensemble among the most creative current large jazz ensembles in Europe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lecture \u201cJazz as a Universal Language\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

April 12, KIC \u201cBudo Tomovi\u0107\u201d, Multimedia hall, 18:00<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apart from the announced concerts, we will organize a guest appearance of the respectable prof. Virgil Mihaiu, a well-known publicist and jazz critic from Cluj, Romania. Through his multimedia lecture he will talk about the development of jazz towards a universal language.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The film \u201cWhose is This Song?\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

April, 20, KIC Multimedia Hall, 20:00<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As part of the film section of the festival, we will show the multiple award-winning documentary \u201cWhose song is this?\u201d by the Bulgarian director Adele Peeva (20.04. KIC Budo Tomovi\u0107 Multimedia Hall\u201d, 20:00). In search of the true roots of a well-known melody, director Adela Peeva travels around Turkey, Greece, Macedonia, Albania, Bosnia, Serbia and Bulgaria, where she encounters many versions of texts, performances and arrangements. The journey is full of humor, doubt, tragedy and surprise because the inhabitants of each Balkan country claim that the song is theirs and even have developed stories about its origin. The melody appears again and again in different forms \u2013 as a love poem, a religious song, a revolutionary anthem, even a military march. For some it is a song from childhood, a story about beauty and love, and for others it is a war cry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Program in other cities in Montenegro<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition to Podgorica, the map of festival events includes Tuzi (Elina Duni & Rob Luft, April 5, KIC Malesija, 20:00), Cetinje (Slaven Ljuji\u0107 Trio feat. Baptiste Herbin, April 12, Royal Theatre, 20:00) and Tivat (Sa\u0161o Popovski feat. Olivier Samouillan, April 26, DTV Partizan, 20:00).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thank you partners for cooperation<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

We would like to thank our partners and everyone who contributed to the organization of the largest jazz event in our country: KIC \u201cBudo Tomovi\u0107\u201d, Secretariat for Culture of the Capital City, KIC \u201cMalesija\u201d, Royal Theatre Zetski dom, Culture Center Tivat, Embassy of Romania and the French Institute in Montenegro.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

International Jazz Day<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

With the celebration of the International Jazz Day on April 30, we will round off the program of the festival Jazz Appreciation Month in Montenegro \u2013 JAM 2023 with a guest appearance by the Nikolov-Ivanovi\u0107 Undectet ensemble in the courtyard of the Kuslev\u2019s house, in Podgorica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Come, experience jazz! We are waiting for you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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