ZORAN MAJSTOROVIC ORGAN TRIO Jazz trio featuring three creative musicians from different countries with different musical backgrounds. Their repertoire features original music written by the bandmembers, some revisited standards from the jazz songbook and some famous rock tunes rearranged for this setting. Another key element of their sonorities is the musical versatility rooted in their personal musical heritage. The instrumentation they're using is ranging from guitar and organ to oud and drums, making listening to this band a truly unique experience.
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ZORAN MAJSTOROVIC
ORGAN TRIO
Jazztriofeaturingthreecreativemusiciansfromdifferentcountrieswithdifferentmusicalbackgrounds.Theirrepertoirefeaturesoriginalmusicwrittenbythebandmembers,somerevisitedstandardsfromthejazz
songbookandsomefamousrocktunesrearrangedforthissetting.Anotherkeyelementoftheirsonoritiesisthemusicalversatilityrootedintheir
personalmusicalheritage.Theinstrumentationthey'reusingisrangingfromguitarandorgantooudanddrums,makinglisteningtothisbandatruly
uniqueexperience.
ZORANMAJSTOROVIC(CRO)
“PORIN”awardwithhisbandasthebestoverallnewmusicartistinCroatia
“DamirDičić”awardasthebestCroatianjazzguitarplayer
“Status”awardasthebestCroatianetnomusician/instrumentalist
“MiroslavSedakBencic”awardasthemostprominentCroatianjazzcomposer
Jazz musician, guitarist, multiinstrumentalist, sound artist,arranger and composer, begins toplay guitar at theageof 9,
andplaysprofessionallysincetheageof13.Hisfirstguitarteacherwashisfather,awellknownguitarplayer in Rijeka area during 1960’s and 1970’s. Later on he studiedwith themost prominent guitarplayersinCroatiaandstudiedwithand/orattendedworkshopsofmanyworldfamousguitarplayerslikeScottHenderson,RobbenFord,MarcRibot,SidJacobs,KurtRosenwinkel…Intheyearsthatfollowedhecollaborateswithmany famous singers,mostly in Croatia, takes part in different projects, recordingsandorchestrasinCroatiaandinternationally.Healsoobtainedamasterdegreewithmaximumvotesinjazzperformanceatthejazzdepartmentof“ConservatorioG.Tartini”inTrieste,Italy.
Hehasbeen touringand recordingwithmusicians like Joe Locke,ReginaldVeal,BruceDitmas,CoreyChristiansen,PatO'Leary, JohnStowell,RussSpiegel, JamesWeinstein, JamesThompson,KennBailey,PhilKeaggy,AsafSirkis,YaronStavi,OlegKireyev,CarlosWerneck,TakatsunaMukai,YoshioMachida,U.T.Gandhi,FrancescoBearzattiandmanymore.Invariousline-upsheplayedinjazzclubsandfestivalsin Croatia, Slovenia, Serbia, Italy, Austria, Bosnia&Herzegovina, Macedonia, Hungary, Netherlands,Montenegro, Germany, Finland, Estonia, Romania, Switzerland...Beside playing the guitar he is anacknowledgedmultiinstrumentalist playing and performing on various string instruments such as theoud,saz,pipa,charango,cindra,mandolin,sitar,tamburitza...Heisalsoaseasonedarrangerinthejazzdomainwritingarrangementsformanyrenownedgroupsandorchestrasandforhisowngroupsandthegroupshetakespartinasaninstrumentalist.
Beside being active in everything mentioned, Zoran is also teaching music, giving workshops andseminars(annual workshop during the International guitar festival in Kastav,Croatia), part-timeorganizingandpromotingdifferentculturalactivities,mainlydealingwith improvisedmusic,etnoandjazzmusic,soundart…Zoran’smusicandplayingcanbeheardondifferentprojectspublishedbymanyrecordcompaniessuchasCroatiaRecords, IDMMusic,Dallas records,Aquarius records,Orfej,Abeat,LADrecords,HIT,Birdlandsound,MusicaJazz,NumarUn,BonoRecords,Maraton…
ROBERTBARGAD(USA)
Pianist,organist,songwriter,arranger,educatorandproducer,RobBargadwasborninBoston,MA,USA,in1962.
AfterstudyingwithKennyBarronatRutgersUniversityfor3years,RobmovedtoNewYorkCityin1984,wherehelivedfor20years.Duringthattimeheplayed,touredand/orrecordedwithsuchJazzluminariesasLionelHampton,LittleJimmyScott,DakotaStaton,JimmyCobb’sMobb,RoyHargrove,PeterBernstein,HarperBrothers,JeannieBryson,LaverneButler,KevinMahoganyandmore.
From1990-2000RobwaspianistintheNATADDERLEYQUINTET,featuringatvarioustimesVincentHerring,SonnyFortune,JuniorCook,AntonioHart,MarcGross,DonaldHarrison,WalterBooker,JimmyCobb,JamesGenusandBillyDrummond,touringtheUSA,EuropeandJapanandrecording8CDs.
Rob’ssongshavebeenrecordedbyhimandotherartistsonseveralCDsandusedinseveralfilms.
Rob’songoingprojectsincludeJOHNSON3!andOHRGELDRIOaswellastheROBBARGADPIANOTRIO.Rob’soriginalSoul/RocksongwritingprojectiswithhisbandFLOZELL(www.flozellmusic.com),recordedonhisownlabel,BarnetteRecords.
OflatehehastouredwithrenownPolishsaxophonistSylwesterOstrowski,andhasappearedonCDandinseveralconcertswithKansasCityvocalistDeborahBrown.
Rob’slatestprojectistheREUNIONSEPTET(www.reunion7tet.com),featuringDaveSchumacher,JerryWeldon,JoeMagnarelli,JasonBrown,DanielSadownickandMikeKarn.
RobhasrecordedmanyCDsasaleaderandsidemanforJazzlabelssuchas:Fantasy,CrissCross,AlfaJazz,Sunnyside,CentralStationMusic,SweetBasil,Chesky,Challenge,CentralStationandBarnette.
Since2005RobisProfessorofJazzPianoatKärntnerLandeskonservatorium(CarinthiaConservatory)inKlagenfurt,Carinthia,SouthernAustria.HeliveswithhisfamilyinKlagenfurt.
KLEMENSMARKTL(AT)
Drummer,bandleader,composer&arrangerKlemensMarktlwasborninAustriain1976.
After studying classical piano at a very young age Klemens Marktldiscoveredhispassioninplayingthedrums.HestudieddrumsinAustria,TheHague,AmsterdamandNewYorkwithCarl Allen, RalphPeterson,GregHutchinson,AriHoenig,JohnRiley…
1997-2003 Klemens was living in the Netherlands and workedprofessionallyasadrummer/bandleaderintheinternationaljazzscene.
InJannuary2003herecordedhisfirstCD-debut“THECHALLENGE”(Jazz`n`Arts)intheNetherlands.ThisCD presents exclusively compositions from the drummer Klemens Marktl and features AustriansaxophonistMichael Erian aswell as dutch pianist BobWijnen, saxophonist Jasper Blom and bassistJeroenVierdag.
HehastouredandrecordedwithjazzgreatssuchasGeorgeGarzone,JoeLocke,SeamusBlake,AaronGoldberg,ChrisCheek,TimRies,DonFriedman,JonDavis,JohnDiMartino,MattPenman,BorisKozlov,JohannesWeidenmueller,GeorgeMrazTrio,BarryHarris,JessevanRuller,RenatoChicco,DenaDeRose,FerdinandPovel,JasperBlom,PhillipHarper,FransElsen,MichaelErian,PrimusSitter,HarrySokal,ErichKleinschuster, Heinz von Hermann, Rick Margitza, John Swana, Rob Bargad, Kenny Werner, HerwigGradischnig, AndyMiddleton,Martin Reiter, PeterMadsen, Johannes Enders, ReinhardMicko, OliverKent,ChristianHavel,ErwinSchmidt,RobertBachnerBigBand,KarinBachner,JudyNiemack,JurePukl,MatthiasPichler,MilanNikolic,PiotrWojtasek,MarcAbrams,…
InJannuary2001Klemenswonthe1stpriceatthe“Leid’scheJazzAward”(NL).
Afteralmost6yearslivingintheNetherlandshemadehismovetoNewYorkin2003andhaslivedandperformedtherefor2years.HejumpedrightintheNewYorkjazzsceneandworkedwithsuchartistsasWesAnderson,MarkRapp, RobBargad,WaldrinRiks,AnthonyWonsey,VincentHerring, ToruDodo,RickGermanson,JohnSwana…
DuringthattimehealsoformedhisownquartetwithChrisCheekonsaxophones,AaronGoldbergonpianoandMattPenmanonbasswhich featureshisowncompositions.KlemensMarktlwent into thestudiowith his new band and recorded his first FRESH SOUNDNEWTALENT release called “OCEANAVENUE”.
This CD was presented during a tour in the fall of 2005 through Austria and Germany. The quartetincludedSeamusBlakeonsaxophones,AaronGoldberg,MattPenmanandKlemensMarktl.
SinceSeptember2004heis livinginViennaandtoursasasidemanandwithhisownprojectsalloverEurope.
In2006KlemensMarktlwasnominatedforthe“HansKollerSidemanoftheYearAward”.
Since 2011 KlemensMarktl is the professor for Jazz-Drums studies at the Conservatory in Klagenfurt(Austria).
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