New albums with recordings from Jazz Cerkno

New albums with recordings from Jazz Cerkno

While this year’s program of live cultural events organized by the Jazz Cerkno Institution concluded with the screening of two musical films, at the end of the year, as usual, we are preparing some new discographic releases. Along with the two upcoming releases...
26th Jazz Cerkno in Summer Edition

26th Jazz Cerkno in Summer Edition

Jazz Cerkno festival will again, due to the “new reality”, take place at a different time from the traditional mid-May term. This year, we will set up a jazz camp in the middle of the summer, from 15 to 17 July. The venue will be the same as last year (the parking lot...
Koromač – Homebrewed Punk Jazz Heavy Booze

Koromač – Homebrewed Punk Jazz Heavy Booze

Just before the start of the 2020 the Jazz Cerkno Institute is sending a new album from the Live at Jazz Cerkno series towards your ears with quite a good measure of Slovenian jazz and off-jazz creativity. The thanks go to Koromač, a jazzcore band from Vrtojba (a...
CODE::SOURCE in Live At Jazz Cerkno Series

CODE::SOURCE in Live At Jazz Cerkno Series

One of the missions of the Jazz Cerkno festival is to encourage the creativity of young musicians. To this end, for the second time, we conducted a workshop called Young Researchers, under the tutelage of Dré Hočevar. It is a program intended for already formed young...
New Album In Live At Jazz Cerkno Series

New Album In Live At Jazz Cerkno Series

Jazz Cerkno, in cooperation with PureZen Records, presents a new album in Live at Jazz Cerkno discography series. The first album from this series, The White Pebbles, was released in 2014 by the Milko Lazar quartet (or, rather, his alter-ego, Razal Oklim Quartet). Now...
Paglej cycle of films about music – autumn series

Paglej cycle of films about music – autumn series

The autumn series of the PAGLEJ cycle, brought to you in co-production of Zavod Jazz Cerkno and the Idrija City Library, will bring three films, which tackle very diverse phenomena both from Slovenian and international music scene. On the big screen we will follow the...
Lively music at the summer Keltika festival

Lively music at the summer Keltika festival

At the Cerkno’s Keltika festival, we have prepared four summer concert nights with five ensembles coming from different corners – both geographically and musically … You will hear a great variety of music, from the Indian dance style bhangra through...
PAGLEJ – A series of movies about music

PAGLEJ – A series of movies about music

Jazz Cerkno Institute in co-production with Idrija Movie Theatre starts a series of movies about music named PAGLEJ, which will feature both documentary and feature movies that illuminate less well-known music practices or throw a new light on already known sound...
Graewe/Sanders: Affretando

Graewe/Sanders: Affretando

We announce release of the new album, recorded at 21. Jazz Cerkno festival. Affretando Georg Grawe (piano) Mark Sanders (drums)   Album is available in the online shop of Confront Recordings...
Lazro/Mcphee: The Cerkno Concert

Lazro/Mcphee: The Cerkno Concert

We announce release of the new album, recorded at 21. Jazz Cerkno festival. The Cerkno Concert: Music For Legendary HeroesDaunik Lazro (baritone and tenor saxophones)Joe McPhee (saxophones, pocket trumpet) Thanks to Iztok Zupan for live recording this album at Jazz...
Boštjan Cvek (1964–2015)

Boštjan Cvek (1964–2015)

It is with great sadness we announce the passing of Boštjan Cvek, the Jazz Cerkno and Keltika festivals co-founder and spiritus movens. After a short severe illness he passed away peacefully, surrounded by his family, wife Renata and daughters Monika and Manca.Despite...