Dejan Terzic Underground: Diaspora

Contemporary Jazz
premiera polska: 2010-11-23
opakowanie: Digipackowe etui
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Editor's info:
The recipient of numerous awards (e.g. Cultural Prize of the City of Nuremberg, Cultural Prize of Bavaria) and one of Europe's most sought-after drummers, Dejan Terzic is a well-schooled technician on his instruments. He has listened thorougly to the old masters and has studied with such as Marvin "Smitty" Smith, Mike Clark, Bill Stewart and Jimmy Cobb. His drumming is dynamic, crisp, multi-textured and open-minded, yet never overstating. He is/was the drummer of choice for e.g. Johannes Enders, Antonio Farao, Dusko Goykovich, Anke Helfrich, Enrico Rava and Nils Wogram and also worked or recorded with Bob Berg, Sonny Fortune, Paolo Fresu, Roy Hargrove, Bireli Lagrene, James Moody, Maria Schneider and others. Irish Times simply called Terzic "a hugely impressive, very musical drummer".

However, 39-year-old Dejan Terzic belongs to that new generation of jazz drummers that are no longer just sidemen but rather musical catalysts - and bandleaders in their own right. In 1994 he was the founder of the Sunday Night Orchestra that for some years became one of the best big bands in Europe. Five years later he proved to be "a mature bandleader" (allaboutjazz.com) when he presented his own quartet recording featuring George Garzone on saxophone. A quintet album followed in 2001.

Around that time Dejan began to explore the melodies and rhythms of the Balkans (where his family roots lie) in order to bring his own music onto higher grounds. Inspired by the film by Emil Kusturica, he called his new band project Underground. It gave its first concert in 2002 in Nuremberg, released its first album in 2005 and has played all major festivals in the Balkan region since. In the beginning the band mostly used folk songs transforming them into sophisticated arrangements for jazz combo. For the new album "Diaspora" however, Dejan Terzic, now a jazz professor in Switzerland, started to write his own tunes "in a sort of diasporic understanding": "I have simply tried to absorb as many influences from Balkan folk music as it has been my fortune to encounter." In his personal musical diaspora he is joined by Americans Chris Speed and Brad Shepik (also members of Balkan-inspired band Pachora) as well as Germany's versatile Tino Derado and Henning Sieverts. Thanks to Dejan Terzic, the Balkan swings!

muzycy:
Chris Speed: saxophone, clarinet
Brad Shepik: guitar
Tino Derado: accordion
Henning Sieverts: bass, cello
Dejan Terzic: drums, percussion

utwory:
1. Diaspora 09:02
2. Hopeful-A-Day 07:57
3. Baerentanz Für Anke 07:58
4. Criminals Come And Go 08:08
5. Nothing Changed But Nothing Remained The Same 05:07
6. The Circus 07:06
7. Jewish Folksong 05:40
8. Lambtale 07:47
9. Aftermath 04:59
total time - 63:44
wydano: 2010
more info: www.enjarecords.de