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21. 02. 2012

Jazz Music is celebrating 95th birthday

Traditional event "Birthday of jazz" is organized for the sixth time in cooperation with the Belgrade Dixieland Orchestra. Performance on Sunday 26th February, at 19:17h will mark the day when in New Orleans in year 1917th for the first time was recorded jazz record...

Upcoming musical 28 days will be organized at Academy 28, where traditionally, will be organized a birthday party of this unique music genre, for the sixth time!
Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States.

It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. Its West African pedigree is evident in its use of blue notes, improvisation, polyrhythms, syncopation and the swung note. From its early development until the present day jazz has also incorporated music from American popular music.

As the music has developed and spread around the world it has drawn on many different national, regional and local musical cultures giving rise, since its early 20th century American beginnings, to many distinctive styles: New Orleans jazz dating from the early 1910s, big band swing, Kansas City jazz and Gypsy jazz from the 1930s and 1940s, bebop from the mid-1940s and on down through West Coast jazz, cool jazz, avant-garde jazz, modal jazz, free jazz, Latin jazz in various forms, soul jazz, jazz fusion and jazz rock, smooth jazz, jazz-funk, punk jazz, acid jazz, ethno jazz, jazz rap, cyber jazz, Indo jazz, M-Base, nu jazz, urban jazz and other ways of playing the music.

In a 1988 interview, trombonist J.J. Johnson said, "Jazz is restless. It won't stay put and it never will".

The festival will be open on Friday at 8 p.m. in gallery "Akademija 28" by presenting the book of Mihailo Miša Blam "Jazz in Serbia 1927-1944". Besides Belgrade Dixieland Orchestra, there will be performing many famous jazz players on Serbian stage. You will have the opportunity to enjoy listening to the music of Jovan Maljoković, Milan Petrović, band Fish in Oil, music school "Stanković".
Quality music program will be comleted with the show of Akademija 28 gallery. Besides book promotion, visitors will be able to see the exhibition "Radionica unikatnih gramofona", "TT Recycled" of Igor Gligorov, picture exhibition „Jazz" by members of art club of Akademija 28, "Serbian soul, bre" of Ivan Grlić.

Program:

24.02.2012.

20:00 - Book presentation "Jazz in Serbia 1927-1944",
21:00 - Dixieland Oldtimers
22:30 - Milan Petrović Quartet
00.00 - Jazz Caravan of Akademija 28: Children of Jazz - Music School "Stanković".

25.02.2012.

20:00 - Jazz as a profession - Faculty of Music Art - promotion of new section on this Faculty
22:00 - Jovan Maljoković Band
00.00 - Jazz caravan of Akademija 28: Children of Jazz - Music school "Stanković"

26.02.2012.

20:00 - Belgrade Dixieland Orchestra
22:00 - Birthday of Jazz - Fish in Oil
00.00 - Jazz caravan of Akademija 28: Children of Jazza - Music school "Stanković"

Entrance is free!