Serbian Jazz Bre! Project

Fusion of Balkan Jazz improvised music and video art, V Jing and music portrait photography by Ivan Grlic

Starting from the concept of presenting music through artistic photography, Serbian jazz Bre! project rests on the idea of capturing the moment of "spiritual experience", which musicians undergo at the moment of the creation, through pictures. Serbian Jazz Bre! Band is formed as an integral part of the eponymous multimedia project by photographer Ivan Grlic. Trying to "revive" pictures, and V.Jing the music part of the project has brought together jazz musicians forming an artistic expression which uses both the language of modern jazz and musical heritage of the area in which they create. The repertoire is mostly made ​​up of original compositions as well as compositions of celebrated Serbian jazz artists and Balkan folk songs, arranged and shaped into a whole that reflects jazz in Serbia, as a specific musical expression, but also with the impacts of East and West, classical music and wealthy Balkan folklore. Typical melodic motifs and rhythms based on the Balkan tradition, through composition and improvisation are incorporated in the form of jazz, as a base for further exploration of the universal musical language. Using improvisation, in mutual interaction, the band members in a vigorous and expressive way, directly transmit personal emotions and experiences of the present moment and creating on the spot to the audience.