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Balkon3 Interview: Lloyd Swanton from The Necks

Balkon3 Interview: Lloyd Swanton from The Necks

The Australian jazz – improv – jam trio The Necks has been active for а quarter century. Consisting of drummer Tony Buck, bassist Lloyd Swanton and keyboardist Chris Abrahams, The Necks’ members are all seasoned...

Balkon3 interview with Rabih Abou Khalil: Bridging Cultural Divides

Balkon3 interview with Rabih Abou Khalil: Bridging Cultural Divides

“When people speak about multiculturalism, it has never been different since humans left Africa and spread throughout the world. There is no pure culture. Anyone who thinks there is a pure culture… that is a... Jazz is a meeting of Africa and Europe

Stian Westerhus: Playing with Sidsel is Just a Dream

Stian Westerhus: Playing with Sidsel is Just a Dream

Guitarist Stian Westerhus is both unpredictable and changeable, and he is a sonic sculptor whose music is instilled with an intoxicating, otherworldly mystique. Situated between free improve, the expressionism of electric free jazz and electronic,...

Skopje Jazz Festival is a magical festival

Skopje Jazz Festival is a magical festival

Interview with Ziga Koritnik, official photographer of Skopje Jazz Festival. The world of jazz wouldn’t be the same if it wasn’t for the photography that portrayed its iconography. It seems that both jazz and photography...

Interview with “Letecki Pekinezeri”

“Its all music” was the response of one of the greatest jazz musicians of all time, Duke Ellington to the numerous debates on how to define jazz. In a relaxed atmosphere in the club MKC,...

Music is like living, but better

Music is like living, but better

Balkon3 interview with Mats Gustavson Even the avant-garde free-improv scene has its own stars, where among the most well known is Mats Gustafsson from Sweden, one of the guests at this year’s Skopje Jazz Festival....

It’s time for jazz in Istanbul

It’s time for jazz in Istanbul

It’s a goof time for Jazz in Istanbul. In the period from 3 of July to 19of July the city on the Bosphorus will pulsate in the rhythm of the jazz. Fifty concerts with 300...

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