Jazz festival Ljubljana
Cankarjev dom Cultural and Congress Centre, Prešernova 10, SI-1000 Ljubljana
Phone386 (0) 1 241 7147
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In 1982 the organisation of Ljubljana Jazz Festival was taken over from the local Jazz Society, its conventional jazz milieu and close-tied connections with institutionalised Big Band RTV Ljubljana, bastion of Slovene jazz traditionalism. Not without resistance and public polemics the first enlarged programme council which also included younger jazz connoisseurs was the start of musical opening toward new jazz, various forms of improvised music, new trends associated or inspired with jazz. This was the turning point of festival orientation till now, an orientation that was followed by appointments of various art directors with different 'success', often publicly attacked from various interest groupings, 'jazz angles' and aesthetic positions. | In 1982 the organisation of Ljubljana Jazz Festival was taken over from the local Jazz Society, its conventional jazz milieu and close-tied connections with institutionalised Big Band RTV Ljubljana, bastion of Slovene jazz traditionalism. Not without resistance and public polemics the first enlarged programme council which also included younger jazz connoisseurs was the start of musical opening toward new jazz, various forms of improvised music, new trends associated or inspired with jazz. This was the turning point of festival orientation till now, an orientation that was followed by appointments of various art directors with different 'success', often publicly attacked from various interest groupings, 'jazz angles' and aesthetic positions. | ||
| − | Till now the festival presents the most eminent world jazz and improvising musicians from Europe, USA and other parts of Americas, Africa, Asia and Australia. Many open air or interdisciplinary events accompany the festival, including street performances, film programme centred on film documentaries, exhibitions of posters, jazz photography and art exhibitions of works by jazz musicians. In recent years Ljubljana Jazz Festival co-operates more closely with Maribor (Lent and Izzven) Jazz Festivals and Jazz Cerkno Festival, establishing kind of Slovene triangle of jazz festivities. | + | Till now the festival presents the most eminent world jazz and improvising musicians from Europe, USA and other parts of Americas, Africa, Asia and Australia. Many open air or interdisciplinary events accompany the festival, including street performances, film programme centred on film documentaries, exhibitions of posters, round tables, jazz photography and art exhibitions of works made by jazz musicians. In recent years Ljubljana Jazz Festival co-operates more closely with Maribor (Lent and Izzven) Jazz Festivals and Jazz Cerkno Festival, establishing kind of Slovene triangle of jazz festivities. |
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Past Events
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26 Sep 2015
Follow the white rabbit, a lecture by Bogdan Benigar, director of the Ljubljana Jazz Festival, at the European Jazz Conference
International Ljubljana Jazz Festival is one of the oldest jazz festivals in Europe. In the year 2009 it was celebrating its 50th anniversary. It is the central international jazz event in Slovenia, as it was before in ex-Yugoslavia.
History
Festival began life in 1960 as Yugoslavian Jazz Festival. For the first six years it took place in Bled, then in 1967 it moved to Ljubljana to Tivoli Hall and in 1970 finally found its traditional domicile in the attractive outdoor venue of Križanke. Due to organisational problems and controversies about its music and artistic direction in the mid-80s the festival was moved for two years to then newly established Cankarjev dom Culture and Congress Centre, but Križanke stands as its prime venue. Cankarjev dom became its regular organiser with relative stable public funding in 1982.
In 1982 the organisation of Ljubljana Jazz Festival was taken over from the local Jazz Society, its conventional jazz milieu and close-tied connections with institutionalised Big Band RTV Ljubljana, bastion of Slovene jazz traditionalism. Not without resistance and public polemics the first enlarged programme council which also included younger jazz connoisseurs was the start of musical opening toward new jazz, various forms of improvised music, new trends associated or inspired with jazz. This was the turning point of festival orientation till now, an orientation that was followed by appointments of various art directors with different 'success', often publicly attacked from various interest groupings, 'jazz angles' and aesthetic positions.
Till now the festival presents the most eminent world jazz and improvising musicians from Europe, USA and other parts of Americas, Africa, Asia and Australia. Many open air or interdisciplinary events accompany the festival, including street performances, film programme centred on film documentaries, exhibitions of posters, round tables, jazz photography and art exhibitions of works made by jazz musicians. In recent years Ljubljana Jazz Festival co-operates more closely with Maribor (Lent and Izzven) Jazz Festivals and Jazz Cerkno Festival, establishing kind of Slovene triangle of jazz festivities.
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