Festival of Slovenian Jazz

Contact

Festival slovenskega jazza

Na Šancah 13, SI-2390 Ravne na Koroškem

http://www.fsj.si

jazzravne@gmail.com

Phone386 (0) 31 629 914

Organised byJazz Society

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 Carinthia Jazz

Frequencyannual (cancelled in 2020 due to Covid-19)

Festival dates5.6.2021

Events abroad

Past Events

• 25 Aug 2024

  Croatia Štrigova Mađerkin Breg

  
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  A friendly concert by Jazz Ravne music school students, accompanied by two mentors. The group performs in Croatia also as part of the Festival of Slovenian Jazz, organized by Jazz Ravne.

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The ever lively drummer Marjan Stanić performing with Vasko Atanasovski Trio at the Festival of Slovenian Jazz, 2013

The Festival of Slovenian Jazz is an annual presentation of the current creative endeavours among the Slovenian jazz musicians of various musical orientations. Taking place since 2003, it is hosting big bands, contemporary jazz collectives, free jazz practitioners and all sorts of other creative musicians, many of them often playing with an international cast, thus giving the festival a somewhat international character.

The festival takes place in the Kompleks Youth Culture Centre in Ravne na Koroškem and partially also in the Cultural centre Ravne.

An alto saxophone lying about at Festival of Slovenian Jazz, 2014

The Festival of Slovenian Jazz is an annual presentation of the current creative endeavours among the Slovenian jazz musicians of various musical orientations. Taking place since 2003, it has hosted big bands, contemporary jazz collectives and free jazz practitioners, all of them sometimes playing with an international cast, thus giving the festival – despite its name – a somewhat international character.

Until 2010, the festival was organised by the Jazz Society and held in the auditorium of Hotel Lev, Ljubljana. Then, after a two-year break, it continued in Ravne na Koroškem, produced together with the crew of the Jazz Ravne cycle. The festival now takes place in the Kompleks Youth Culture Centre and partially also in the Cultural centre Ravne.

Background

The history of the Jazz Society goes back quite a long time, as they are the ones who in 1960 brought to life the Ljubljana Jazz Festival, nowadays still existing as the oldest European jazz festival. At that time, it was called Yugoslavia Jazz Festival and was held in Bled, moving to Ljubljana only later in 1967. A dozen years later, at the end of the 1970s, the festival organisation was handed to the then newly established Cankarjev dom, Cultural and Congress Centre. Consequently, for a few years, the Jazz Society ran its own festival (once again set in Bled), organised regular concert evenings in Ljubljana, and worked on the local jazz culture, managing, for example, to install a jazz course into the Ljubljana Music and Ballet Conservatory curriculum.

Music programme

Some of the bands and musicians that have appeared at the festival include RTV Slovenia Big Band, Jure Pukl Quartet, Balžalorsky / Drašler 3o, Lolita, Vasko Atanasovski Trio, Jazoo, Robert Jukič, Jaka Kopač, Zlatko Kaučič, Cene Resnik, Samo Šalamon and Igor Bezget. Playing on the same stages, have been such notable musicians as Giovanni Maier, Clarence Penn, Howard Curtis, and Wayne Darling.

Stefano Battaglia - Samo Šalamon Duo- JAZZ FESTIVAL RAVNE 2015 by Peter Rec on YouTube

See also

• Ljubljana Jazz Festival
• Kompleks Youth Culture Centre

External links

• Slovenian Jazz Festival website (in Slovenian)
• Jazz Ravne website (in Slovenian)

Gallery

The ever lively drummer Marjan Stanić performing with Vasko Atanasovski Trio at the Festival of Slovenian Jazz, 2013

Borut Bučar, Slovenia's oldest active jazz musician, performing at Festival of Slovenian Jazz, 2014

Eva Hren performing with New Times Big Band at Festival of Slovenian Jazz, 2014

Igor Matković, one of the most remarkable Slovene jazz trumpeters, performing at Festival of Slovenian Jazz, 2014

Izidor Leitinger leading the New Times Big Band at Festival of Slovenian Jazz, 2014

The New York based Slovene saxophonist Jure Pukl playing at Festival of Slovenian Jazz together with RTV Slovenia Big Band, 2014

A performance by the attendants of the Jazz Ravne school at the Festival of Slovenian Jazz, 2014

Lado Jakša during his multimedia act, merging photography, poetry and solo saxophone at Festival of Slovenian Jazz, 2014

Nina Strnad performing together with the New Times Big Band at the Festival of Slovenian Jazz, 2014

The double bass player Robert Jukič while performing in Igor Matkovič's Sonic Motion quartet at Festival of Slovenian Jazz, 2014

The remarkable drummer Zlatko Kaučič performing at Festival of Slovenian Jazz, 2014

An alto saxophone lying about at Festival of Slovenian Jazz, 2014

Klagenfurt based pianist Anton Feinig performing at the Festival of Slovenian Jazz, 2015

The gospel choir Bee Geesus performing at Festival of Slovenian Jazz, 2015

Kar Češ Brass Band performing on the streets of Ravne na Koroškem during Festival of Slovenian Jazz, 2015

Kar Češ Brass Band bowing after performing their New Orleans street jazz flavoured pieces at Festival of Slovenian Jazz, 2015

Katja Šulc and Robert Jukič, performing the latter's musical project Ženske (Women) at Festival of Slovenian Jazz, 2015

The composer and double bass player Robert Jukič presenting his project Ženske (Women), featuring also Mia Žnidarič, at the Festival of Slovenian Jazz, 2015

Primož Grašič & [Uroš Perič] Quartet performing at Festival of Slovenian Jazz, 2015

The streets of Ravne na Horoškem and its jazz themed decorations during the Festival of Slovenian Jazz, 2015

A detail captured during the Festival of Slovenian Jazz, 2015