Solo Live Nenad Vasilic

• 1 Opener & Vranjanka 05:47
• 2 Kalas Bre Andjo 04:22
• 3 Zapevala Sojka Ptica 05:07
• 4 Kradem Ti Se U Veceri 04:50
• 5 Mr. A.B. 04:23
• 6 New Bass Song 05:52
• 7 C U at 11 04:44
• 8 Just Squeeze Me 03:53
• Total Runtime 38:58

Info for Solo Live

With ‘Solo Live’, Nenad Vasilic presents his fifteenth album. Alone on the double bass, the double bassist and composer moves between irregular rhythms, straightforward funk beats and music from the southern Balkans. The constant alternation of percussive and traditional playing techniques creates a captivating live performance. Nenad Vasilic has lived in Vienna for more than 20 years and has built up an excellent reputation in European jazz circles as well as in his native Serbia. He combines Balkan rhythms, jazz and classical music influences in his own compositions in an inimitable way.

The album Solo Live was created as a live recording of a concert at the Constantinus Festival for Classical Music. The compositions on the album were arranged or composed by Nenad Vasilic. The concert itself shows the great virtuosity and creativity of the artist, who uses various techniques of double bass playing to create the impression of the whole orchestra in a very progressive way.

Nenad Vasilic, double bass

Nenad Vasilic
Musical brilliance and lived inspiration: there is no other quite like him-a double bass player, a composer, an arranger and a complete rhythm section refined and rolled into one person: Nenad Vasilić has long been at the forefront of European jazz and is highly acclaimed throughout the continent. Born in Nis, Serbia, he grew up surrounded by a rich tradition of Balkan folklore. Traditional music, Roma music and a love of jazz were strong influences in his younger years, when he was playing mainly piano and bass guitar. From sixteen onwards, he played throughout the local jazz scene and was considered one of the most talented double bass players. After jazz studies in Graz, he moved to Vienna and has since been one of the most sought-after contrabassists.

With nearly 40 original compositions on seven albums, Vasilić uniquely fuses jazz, improvisation and world music, making it his own. In 2004, his album "Nenad Vasilić Balkan Band Live in ORF" was nominated for the Hans Koller Prize. His pieces, simultaneously innovative and respectful of the musical traditions that made him what he is today, exude a lightness and virtuous understanding of the complexity of the Balkan rhythms and melodies. By now, this groundbreaking, Vienna-based musician has left a gentle yet permanent mark on the European world music and jazz scene and, as an arranger and producer, is constantly remapping his personal and musical boundaries.

His cooperation with acclaimed artists ranges from Richie Beirach, Petar Ralchev, Bojan Z, to Mark Murphy, Sheila Jordan and countless others .

"This music is quite an education. There's power in music of one's homeland. Somehow, it transcends all opinions, criticisms, language and cultural limitations." Denai Burbank (Jazz Review)

"There's a palpable sense of joy in the face of great sorrow, optimism despite a series of crushing defeats, and a real beauty that can be terrible and magnificent simultaneously." Bill Barton (All About Jazz)

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