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Gal Golob Trio concert album

Gal Golob Trio concert album

The new release from Jazz Cerkno Records brings recordings by the young Gal Golob Trio from the Jazz Incubator residency, which took place at last year's festival. The leader of the Slovenian-German...

Three music documentaries in the Paglej! series

Three music documentaries in the Paglej! series

As part of the movie series Paglej!, which we are preparing in co-production with the Idrija City Library, we will present three quite interesting music documentaries. The two will shed light on the...

29. Jazz Cerkno 2024

29. Jazz Cerkno 2024

Cerkno - a town in the middle of picturesque nature: beautiful, breathtaking and harmonious, but at the same time unpredictable, idiosyncratic and whimsical. The Jazz Cerkno festival has been...

The debut album of the band Bop en Bras

The debut album of the band Bop en Bras

At this year's Jazz Cerkno festival, we held a new residency for musicians, which we are now rounding off with a discography release. We have published the album Jezen času kamna, the debut of the...

28. Jazz Cerkno 2023

28. Jazz Cerkno 2023

The 28th edition of the festival will once again bring the whole world to Cerkno. Musicians from fourteen countries including Slovenia will present a palette of modern jazz, in which the noble past...

27. Jazz Cerkno 2022

27. Jazz Cerkno 2022

After two years of running the Jazz Cerkno festival at a different location and at a different time, the festival is returning to its May date and to its old venue at Star plac in the centre of...

More Low Than Low Quintet with its debut album

More Low Than Low Quintet with its debut album

After the album Young Researchers IV. – Brina Kren – Crucial Encounters, released in December last year, Jazz Cerkno Records published another album recorded at the 26th festival. It is the debut of...

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...

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...

New concert videos from Jazz Cerkno festivals

New concert videos from Jazz Cerkno festivals

The absence of live concerts triggered the need for more music videos! On our Youtube channel you can watch new series of clips from previous Jazz Cerkno festivals. Follow our channel and be sure...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...