As I relaunched the Funk Elastic project with new music last year, after ten years of inactivity, we released three instrumental singles in 2020. This relaunch was greatly catalyzed by lack of live gigs and work with other bands, due to the Covid-19 virus. In 2021 we are planning to release four new singles, three more instrumentals Continue reading
Kenny Garrett alto saxophone solo transcription on Straight No Chaser by Thelonious Monk, with Chick Corea Freedom Band at Jazz in Marciac 2010.
Roy Hargrove – trumpet
Kenny Garrett – alto saxophone
Chick Corea – piano
Christian McBride – bass
Roy Haynes – drums
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The transcription of Dexter Gordon tenor saxophone solo on jazz bossa nova Blue Bossa from his Biting the Apple (SteepleChase SCS 1080) album.
The bflat and concert versions of the transcription are available at transcriptions page.
Have fun and keep practicing!
Funalez by Funk Elastic, Balkans folk groove flavor. Contemporary house groove instrumental with stylized Balkans or even Middle Eastern folk music flavor with rhythmic and metric shifts above steady grove. The song features bass, flute and tenor saxophone solos. Continue reading
Zdenko Ivanusic meets IBMCs – jazz/hip-hop edition is a project made as a collaboration with IBMCs digital label. The album is based on a selection of compositions from my discography and features six producers/beatmakers. Zdenko Ivanusic meets IBMCs project includes eight original tracks selected from my solo albums Lost in HTML, Free Fall, albums Four Odd, Mellow with Donna Lee Saxophone Quartet and Funk Elastic single Soul Face, plus six remixes/remakes made by IBMCs family producers. Continue reading
Conchology (remastered) by Donna Lee Saxophone Quartet, was originally released on the Four Odd (2005) album. This is fast jazz composition featuring alto solo.
Conchology remastered is available at online music stores, check out the most popular at Zivaldo Music. Continue reading
This is an interview with Joe Allard. Joe talks about and demonstrates more or less all aspects of his approach in saxophone and clarinet method of teaching. He also mentions a lot of anecdotes from his professional career as a performer and teacher. Continue reading
Blacbub by Funk Elastic, disco/house instrumental. Modern disco/house groove featuring tenor saxophone solo and some funky electric guitar riffs.
– Lagano Lagano @ Aquarius Club, Zagreb – July, 1996
Cijela snimka prvog nastupa Con Fusiona na Lagano Lagano festivalu u Aquariusu. Festival je popraćen i kompilacijom na CD-u, na kojoj su bandovi zastupljeni studijskim snimkama, Lagano, Lagano – Aquarius Records (1996, Reissue 2010). Continue reading
Croatian Army Big Band performs Dilema, composition by Miljenko Prohaska at jazz festival Proljetna revija jazza in April, 1998 at Vatroslav Lisinski Concert Hall, Zagreb.
Miljenko Prohaska was a famous Croatian composer/arranger and bandleader. He was longtime leader and artistic director of Radio Zagreb Dance Orchestra (the present-day Croatian Radiotelevision Jazz Orchestra). In this particular occasion the army big band had bigger rendition, called “Sympho” Big Band, with additional brass and woodwinds instruments. Continue reading