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Blazin’ Quartet – Sleeping Beauty album release concert is coming in streaming March 26!

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“If the Mountain won’t go to Mohammed, then Mohammed must come to the Mountain”.

Since the album release concert for Blazin’ Quartet’s new album Sleeping Beauty was cancelled, we’ll be ensuring the highest quality audio and live 5 camera video coverage in the amazing space of the Studio de l’Ermitage in Paris and bring the music into your living room, bedroom or wherever you choose to watch. 

Introducing an all-new line-up with album guest Magic Malik on flute, Olivier Laisney on trumpet, Manu Codjia on guitar, Yoni Zelnik on bass, Srdjan Ivanovic on drums, and an especially special guest, the artist-formerly-playing-with-Blazin’-Quartet – Christophe Panzani on the tenor sax.

After the show we’ll have a chat-at-the-bar, like at a real concert and you can ask questions through comments, about the new album, the concert, Srdjan’s new electronic box, or life in general.

March 26th, 9 PM in Paris (GMT-1), 3PM in New York, 5AM in Tokyo, streaming direct and available for 7 days.

Cost: a streaming concert has an actually higher budget then a regular concert (video, sound etc) and we can’t do it without your participation. To get your tickets you have several options, check those out now here.

Nikolov – Ivanovic Undectet feat. Magic Malik – a new album recording

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We just finished recording a new album with the Undectet, co-led by master arranger, pianist and guitarist Vladimir Nikolov and myself. The team was amazing, 11 people dedicated towards bringing this music to life on tape. (well not tape, just bits and bytes I guess but that does not sound that nice …)
Very happy about the result so far, a lot of work stil left ahead, I’ll keep you posted!

Interview

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For the French speakers out there, here’s an interview I did for the magazine Putsch a few months ago, talking about the new BQ album, my growing up and my dad’s influence on becoming a musician.

Srdjan Ivanovic : la musique née de l’exil depuis l’ancienne Yougoslavie

Nikolov Ivanovic Undectet – Artistry in Broken Rhythm

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This is a new group, started on the idea of doing a big ensemble group with great arranger and friend Vladimir Nikolov. We premiered the group in November 2017 at the Panchevo Jazz Festival in Serbia and recorded an album just after. We returned in April 2018 for a concert in Belgrade, opening for the Days of Holland.

Here’s some useful links for the album, hope you enjoy it!

Spotify: goo.gl/gHyZ9F
iTunes: goo.gl/cfBEnq
Amazon: http://a.co/03KJyW2
Deezer: goo.gl/WQqe1X
CD sale Metropolis : https://goo.gl/LRfTcD

Nikolov-Ivanović Undectet

Serbia – Romania – Bulgaria

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This spring and summer Blazin’ Quartet has visited the Balkans, we started with Serbia in April, 5 concerts around the country, continued to Romania in July and played in Bucharest (La Scena) and Tulcea (Dobro Jazz Festival) and by the end of July we reached the shores of the black sea and Bulgarian Varna and the International Jazz Festival there and we finished the tour in Sofia at the Jazz Bar. In a different setting with Federico Casagrande on guitar, Andreas Polyzogopoulos on trumpet and Mihail Ivanov we had a grand time and I believe made some good music at the same time. Thank you to all there who came out, it’s very special to play in the Balkans.

 

Press about La mer, la pierre, la terre, l’oiseau

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The reviews for the new album of Blazin’ Quartet are flattering.

Here’s one from the French JAZZ NEWS that focused on me:

Avec La mer, la pierre, la terre, l’oiseau ce subtil batteur propose un sacré voyage, inspiré par d’autres (anti)héros européens : le fameux Zorba le Grec et Alija Đerzelez, personnage légendaire de la littérature slave. On y retrouve le Français Christophe Panzani, l’Italien Federico Casagrande, le Grec Andreas Polyzogopoulos ou le Bulgare Mihail Ivanov. On appelle â un Européen convaincu. Et convaincant.

SRDJAN JAZZ NEWS
With La mer, la pierre, la terre, l’oiseau this subtle drummer proposes a journey, among others inspired byEuropean anti-heroes: the famous Zorba the Greek and Alija Đerzelez, a legendary figure of Slavic literature. The album features the Frenchman Christophe Panzani, the Italian Federico Casagrande, the Greek Andreas Polyzogopoulos and the Bulgarian Mihail Ivanov. We call that a convinced European. And convincing too.

 

Next coming from the lifestyle magazine InRocks – the albums was chosen as one of the 10 French jazz albums to be urgently listened to!

Les InRocks – Les 10-albums de jazz francais qu’il faut ecouter d’urgence

Le nom à rallonge de l’album l’indique clairement : la nature va parler, chuchoter ces secrets que l’esprit seul reçoit et que le musicien, dirigeant les vibrations de l’air, saura à son tour communiquer. Pour le batteur Srdjan Ivanovic, c’est là toute l’affaire, musicale aussi bien que spirituelle, et elle commande de savoir s’entourer pour arriver à ses fins. En Christophe Panzani (ténor et clarinette basse), Andreas Polyzogopoulos (trompette) et Mihail Ivanonv (contrebasse), il a trouvé les meilleurs partenaires possibles pour traverser l’espace de ses compositions en lents vols planés, plongées vertigineuses et jaillissements libérateurs.

The extended name of the album clearly indicates it: nature will speak, whisper secrets that only the spirit can detect and which the musician, controlling air vibrations, will in turn communicate. For the drummer Srdjan Ivanovic, this is what it’s about, musically as well as spiritually, and it demands to know to surround oneself to reach the goal. In Christophe Panzani (tenor and bass clarinet), Andreas Polyzogopoulos (trumpet) and Mihail Ivanonv (double bass), he found the best possible partners to cross the space of his compositions in slow flights, dizzy dips and releasing gushes.

Culture Jazz

une musique pensée comme une suite aux couleurs changeantes, pleine d’énergie et de poésie.

music thought as a suite of changing colours, full of energy and poetry.

Summer: Amsterdam, theatre, festivals

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This summer I had the pleasure of working on the music for and playing in the play HOOFDROL by the music theatre group KASSETT from Amsterdam. Together with saxophonist Joao Driessen and pianist Daan Herweg we performed music ranging from late romantic classical to jalkan bazz during 8 sold out shows 14 – 23d July 2017.

Over het Ij Festival – Amsterdam

Blazin’ Quartet’s new album pre-sale/crowdfunding has begun

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Dear friends,

Living a musician’s life is not easy. Travelling in fast trains and airplanes, having to attend concerts and gala events, struggling to make it from recording to concert and sometimes even having to do rehearsals!! On the good side there’s the money, the fame and the social privileges.

Speaking of money, there are more important things in life (diamonds, gold, real estate) but for the release of Blazin’ Quartet’s new album we do need some support in order to properly release it. So, a crowdfunding has been launched for that purpose and you are kindly invited to check it out and support. If you do, you will be the first to get the new album, a high quality download with some extras added and some really nice rewards, like the BQ magic mug.

See more about that here: https://www.kisskissbankbank.com/en/projects/blazin-quartet-la-mer-la-pierre-la-terre-l-oiseau

Being a multilingual person (not really by choice) I’ve translated the website in a few other languages so if you prefer you can go the the French, Dutch or Italian version. (Italian I do not speak but my partner in many crimes Catherine F. Simon has among many other things helped out there!)

Otherwise, in the last few months, since I last wrote, I’ve been travelling around, both for music and pleasure to Serbia, Bosnia, New York, Albany, Adirondacks, Geneva and as I write I am in the outskirts of a small city in Switzerland called Fribourg. I’ve been playing with some different people like Marc Buronfosse’s Sketch Trio, Hugo Corbin Quartet, Yannick Benoit Trio, the group Diplodocus, the Srdjan Grujicic OrKestre and Blazin’ Quartet, who’s concert was filmed and recorded and this EPK came out as a result. Some other exciting news are that I will be doing music for a music-theatre collective called MC Kassett. The play, called HOOFDROL (transl.: Leading role) is a play based on the seemingly contrasting figures of Jayne Mansfield and Artur Schopenhauer and will feature some new music and some Blazin’ Quartet music, played live by a trio I put together, consisting of Joao Driessen on tenor sax, EWI and Daan Herweg on keys and synth. Other nice upcoming news are playing the 10th of March with the giutarist Hugo Corbin’s Quartet (Christophe Panzani – tenor sax, Nico Moreau – bass) at the Paris/Prague Jazz Club. (facebook invite here) and in April the pre-release tour with Blazin’ Quartet in Serbia (3-7 April in Pancevo, Novi Sad, Subotica, Kragujevac and Belgrade).

Hope to cross paths with you sometime in the coming time,

Srdjan

New BQ album – coming out in May, presale starts in March!

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After a long pause Blazin’ Quartet is releasing a new album on Coolabel/Absilone.

Check out the new EPK : https://youtu.be/k9oi_yRqXAU

Release March 19th for fan presale and May 18th for digital and shops!

Lineup:
Andreas Polyzogopoulos – trumpet
Christophe Panzani – tenor saxophone / bass clarinet / effects
Mihail Ivanov – double bass
Srdjan Ivanovic – drums, some synths and electronics

Also on the album:
Federico Casagrande – guitar
Marc Buronfosse – fender VI bass, double bass
Jovana Krstevska – voice
Timothée Robert – bass

From Downbeat: “The clever postmodern antics of the young Blazin’ Quartet were noteworthy; featuring Serbian limber drummer Srdjan Ivanovic, they twist and tweak conventions, as might be expected from a band whose new album is called Jalkan Bazz”