20. Jazz Cerkno 2015
international festival
21.-23. may
www.jazzcerkno.si
info@jazzcerkno.si
In the year 20 after the Jazz, Boštjan Cvek, the founder and driving force of the international Jazz Cerkno
festival, ended his life. Before he passed away he prepared complete program for this year's festival, and, as if
nothing had happened, took care that the festival will continue to take place. This year's round anniversary of
Jazz Cerkno is dedicated to Boštjan Cvek's life circle, which can be touched as a tangent by every visitor of
this year's festival as well as those about to come.
Dario Cortese
Yes, it's been twenty years since jazz tunes began to echo through this town for the first time.
Apart from jazz musicians, we have strived to invite those musicians who combine jazz with
other genres - from edgy rock to gentle traditional music -, those who experiment and
improvise. We understand jazz as an extremely wide and open art form, which is precisely why
it can be local and global at the same time. The mixture of local and global is also one of the
main momentums of our festival, since it is shaped by both artists coming from all corners of
the planet, and by the citizens of Cerkno as well as other locals.
In the past nineteen years in Cerkno we heard a series of local and foreign eminent musicians
who, each in their own right, represented the current moment of Slovenian and inernational
jazz. And this year it will be no different, except that we have prepared some goodies and
special features for the anniversary. For the first time in Cerkno we are going to host the
famous guitarist Marc Ribot who is considered to be one of the most original and versatile
guitarists. Ribot is one of the most idiosyncratic guitarists. Apart from having his own bands, he
has a rich history of high-profile collaborations, from Tom Waits through Elvis Costello to Henry
Grimes and John Zorn, skillfully tackling a wide range of genres, from pop and folk to jazz and
improvisation. It's hard to find a better proof for this than the Marc Ribot's Ceramic Dog trio and
its edgy alternative rock with elements of punk, jazz, experiment and more.
Ribot's band will conclude up the festival events on Friday, when in the Old Square we will
listen also to another specialty: the Slovenian-Italian Cerkno Jubileum Orchestra, a modern
big band, led by Zlatko Kaučič. In fact, this is the renowned orchestra Without Borders /
Senza confini which will be renamed and renewed with some new musicians in honor of the
festival anniversary. The Friday festival day will be rounded off with the energetic CanadianBritish trio Carrier / Edwards / Lambert.
On the opening day on Thursday we will kick off with a Slovenian Big band GveriLLaz and its
jazz arrangements of the legendary Frank Zappa songs. This will be followed by trumpeter
Igor Matković and three pianists. The Polish pianist Marcin Wasilewski (Tomasz Stanko's
long-time collaborator) is a member of Matković's Slovenian-Polish-Serbian quartet "Long
Distance Journey", that will premiere some new music in Cerkno. And then, for the first time
in our festival's history, there will be two pianos on the stage. They will be played by legends
of improvisation Alexander von Schlippenbach and Aki Takase.
As usual, the final Saturday festival day will offer an additional concert at the Music School. We
will listen to the legendary Japanese free jazz reed player Akira Sakata on his first
performance in Slovenia. At the main stage, Sakata will also play in the furious free-form
Japanese-Swedish-Norwegian trio Sakata / Berthling / Nilssen-Love. There will be another
trio on the same evening, Agnel / Edwards / Noble; this Franco-British company will bring
improvisation to a more abstract level. Members are Sophie Agnel at the piano, drummer
Steve Noble and bass player John Edwards (the latter will play the day before in the
Canadian saxophonist François Carrier trio.
The grand finale of our anniversary festival is going to be very bombastic. We will listen to our
old acquaintances, the edgy Dutch avant-rockers The Ex, this time accompanied by two
excellent guests. Ken Vandermark needs no introduction, as we have hosted him several
times, most recently last year with the DKV Trio (that concert was included in their live, 5-CD
album Sound In Motion In Sound, a set of five cds with just so many concert recordings)! And
the other guest, the trumpeter Nate Wooley, is considered one of the most revolutionary
contemporary trumpeters in recent years.
So, from May 21 to 23 there is quite a delicious jazz treat waiting for you in Cerkno with many
local and foreign musicians. As always, we offer favorable jazz packages at Hotel Cerkno to
our visitors. Music events at the annversary festival will be enriched with street performances
by Kar Češ Brass Band and Cerkno Wind Orchestra. These performances are part of our
rich accompanying program, which will be a bit more spectacular for the anniversary. We
would like to highlight the documentary exhibition "Twenty years of jazz - and much more
- in Cerkno" (prepared by Miha Zadnikar with numerous collaborators). There is also our
traditional music workshop for children, this time titled "Sound Safari - Cerkno 2015" (led by
our two regular mentors, Boštjan Gombač and Blaž Celarec, and Boštjan Perovšek), New
Muska magazine will held a round table "How creative musician works?", which will be
moderated by Ičo Vidmar, and we will round off a bunch of accompanying events with two
constants of our festival: music photography workshop "Jazzy-ga!" (Žiga Koritnik) and "Wild
Food" workshop (Dario Cortese). Prick up your ears and see ya on the Old Square!
It will be lively, for each and everyone of you. Welcome to the 20th international Jazz Cerkno festival!
The organizer reserves the right to change the program by day and locations, as well as to change the program contents of the 20th
International Festival of Jazz Cerkno 2015 (21-23 May).
Programme
THURSDAY 21 MAY
main stage 7 p.m.
Big band GveriLLaz (SLO)
Organizer: Dano Ličen. Conductor: Peter Ugrin.
Igor Matković "Long Distance Journey" feat. M. Wasilewski (SLO, POL, SRB) 8.30 p.m.
Takase / Schlippenbach (JPN, GER) 10 p.m.
FRIDAY 22 MAY
main stage 7.30 p.m.
Cerkno Jubileum Orchestra (SLO, ITA)
Compositions, conductor: Zlatko Kaučič.
Carrier / Edwards / Lambert (CAN, GBR) 9:00 p.m.
Marc Ribot's Ceramic Dog (USA) 10.30 p.m.
SATURDAY 23 MAY
music school 5 p.m.
Akira Sakata solo (JPN)
main stage 7.30 p.m.
Agnel / Edwards / Noble (FRA, GBR)
Sakata / Berthling / Nilssen-Love (JPN, SWE, NOR) 9 p.m.
The Ex with Ken Vandermark & Nate Wooley (NLD, USA) 10.30 p.m.
ADDITIONAL PROGRAM
Museum – exhibition "Twenty years of jazz - and much more - in Cerkno"
23 May 10 a.m. Hotel Cerkno – music workshop concert "Sound safari – Cerkno 2015"
23 May 12 a.m. Gabrijel – Nova Muska – podcast, moderator Ičo Vidmar (SLO)
23 May – street performances:
Pihalna godba Cerkno (Trg prekomorskih brigad 6 p.m.); Kar Češ Brass Band
22 and 23 May – "Wild food" workshop, mentor: Dario Cortese (SLO)
21-23 May – music photography workshop: »Jazzy-ga!«, mentor: Žiga Koritnik (SLO)
We hold the right to change the scheduled program in case of unexpected events.
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supporters: Ministrstvo za kulturo RS, Občina Cerkno, Goethe-Institut Ljubljana
sponsors: Pivovarna Laško, bar Gabrijel, Adriatic Slovenica, Hotel Cerkno, Benton, Ljubljanski grad, C.M.A.K., Glasbena šola Cerkno, OŠ Cerkno,
Cafe Britt, Vipava 1894, Mesnica Žunar, Krovstvo in kleparstvo Dragan Obid, Elektro Primorska, Šotori Petre Žalec
main media sponsor: VAL 202
other media sponsors: MLADINA, Nova Muska, Radio Študent, Goriška, Primorski val, FreiStil, rps.si, Komunala Idrija