Day 3

It was just another day at Jazzinty...Some students practicing, some running to get a cup of coffee, some slowly moving up the stairs to the classrooms where mentors are waiting... After work, dinner and shower it was time for another big night: Jazzon - Grand Awawrd for the Best Slovene Jazz Composition. For the 5th year, the jury had to make a preselection and choose the seven finalists whose compositions were the performed by the Igor Lumpert Jazzon Quintet.

After hearing all compositions it was obvious that the decision, at least the one on the audience side is going to be difficult. And in the jury: Barry Harris, Judy Niemack, Ratko Zjaca, Andy Middleton, Janez Gregorc, Joris Teepe.

After the break the results were known:

1st Award: Tine Grgurevic: Three For Blue
2nd Award: Blaz Remic: Cartesian Theatre

The Audience Award: Klemen Smolej: Sporocilo (Massage)

Congrats to the winners and other finalist!

Day 2

Jazzinty would not be Jazzinty if there was no passing the knowledge to the younger generation eager to learn.:) The Workshop is an intensive program of musical education, stretching over a week. It is an academy, open to anyone interested in improvisation and jazz. It brings students that play piano, bass, the violin, accordion, drums, percussions, trumpet, saxophone, guitar, do vocals or just want to learn some basic jazz harmony and composition skills. This year's seventy participants have individual classes as well as combo practices where they play in different groups.

Day 1

This year Jazzinty started in style, as always. Miles Griffith Quintet opened the Festival with powerful beats as well as softer melodies. Respectable musicians and public hungry of jazz...

The energy moved to the Club LokalPatriot where Jazzinty participants performed on a jam session...

Introduction

Art Blakey once said that music washes away the dust of every day life. For the past seven years, an anual summerish week of jazz embracing a variety of musicians and their energy has been doing exactly that. Washing away the dust of every day life in this small town. Bringing something new each year. Something exciting, calm or powerful, happy or sad, sometimes all at the same time. It is an amazing mixture of sounds, tunes and therefore brings an extraordinary wave of feelings.