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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...
A.G.A.T. quartet’s debut with bold use of electronics and improvisation
The discography of the Jazz Cerkno Records label is enriched with another, this time a concert album. It is an album by the quartet A.G.A.T. entitled Live at Jazz Cerkno. It is also the debut of the...
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...
Colorful program of summer Keltika concert series – from retro sound and punk soul to Balkan rhythms
In the coming months, we have prepared four musical evenings as part of the 29th Keltika concert series, at which renowned Slovenian and international bands will perform. The series will commence on...
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...
An album of sophisticated improvisations by the Slovenian-British trio Drašler / Jackson / Thompson
Jazz Cerkno Records has added another album with inspired musicianship to the list of its discography releases, and on top of that, it is the first label's album recorded at the Keltika concert...
The debut of the powerful international saxophone trio Triple Reed
At Zavod Jazz Cerkno we round off this year's varied events with the release of the debut album Sound fields by the international saxophone trio Triple Reed. The trio consists of established...
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...
Four musical documentaries in the Paglej! movie series
As part of the film series Paglej!, which we are preparing in co-production with the Idrija City Library, we will screen four music documentaries. The set of films will include portraits of three...
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...
Album with concert recordings of Robert Jukič’s quartet
The album Res Publica, which was released by Jazz Cerkno Records on March 31, includes a recording of the opening concert of the 27th edition of the festival. Double bass player Robert Jukič...
The first album by the duo Zlatko Kaučič / Boštjan Simon
The discography list of Jazz Cerkno Records is getting bigger and bigger. The new album Žepi / Pockets features the music of drummer and percussionist Zlatko Kaučič and saxophonist and electronic...
Album by Oskar Longyka and his international quartet καλός from the Young Researchers V. program
As usual, Zavod Jazz Cerkno concludes the year with some album releases, which recordings were made at the festival. The new album Young Researchers V. — Oskar Longyka — καλός is the work of the...
Paglej! – the autumn series of four musical documentaries
After Keltika concert series, our program continues in the cinema. In co-production with Idrija City Library, we are organizing for the fifth year in a row a series of movies about music called...
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
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...
Brina Kren’s debut album from the program Young Researchers IV.
Jazz Cerkno has had a varied year, the central part of which was the successful 26th edition of the Jazz Cerkno festival. As has been the custom for several years, we end the calendar year with a...
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
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...
Ombak Trio on the first vinyl in the Live At Jazz Cerkno series
At the Jazz Cerkno, we continue to publish albums with concert recordings from our festival, which last year, despite difficult conditions, more than successfully celebrated its 25th anniversary!...
Music by Tobija Hudnik from The Young Researchers III. program now also on the album
One of the missions of the Jazz Cerkno festival is to encourage the creativity of not yet established Slovenian musicians. Among other things, we carry out this mission with the annual music...
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
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
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...
Cene Resnik Free Stellar Trio + Rob Mazurek: Age Of Chaos
Jazz Cerkno continues to release albums with recordings of concerts performed at our festival. This time it's not a new cd in the Live at Jazz Cerkno series, but rather a collaboration with the...
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
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
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
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
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
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...
Zlatko Kaučič & Cerkno Jubileum Orchestra: Zvočni sejalec
The label Klopotec has released an album Zvočni sejalec of Cerkno Jubileum Orchestra, which was formed especially for the last year's Jazz Cerkno 20th anniversary. The Cerkno concert recordings are...
Godbe. Gibke. Grčaste. Grapaste. Gričaste. Gabrijelaste. (Exhibition)
Through written, visual and other documents and objects (photos, leaflets, posters, T-shirts, audio and video recordings) the documentary exhibition celebrating the twentieth anniversary of the...
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,...