Dejan Terzic - Prometheus

Size: 150,0 MB
Time: 64:30
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2016
Styles: Jazz
Art: Front & Back

01. Prometheus (5:32)
02. Cobblestones (7:08)
03. Anagramma (8:12)
04. Red (4:54)
05. Addition And Subtraction (5:49)
06. Run Through The Fields (7:36)
07. Sundance (7:23)
08. Tragoidia (6:43)
09. Turbofolk (5:51)
10. New Parasomnia (5:16)

Personnel:
Dejan Terzic (Drums)
Matt Penman (Bass)
Chris Speed (Sax)
Bojan Zulfikarpašic (Piano and Fender Rhodes)

With Prometheus CAM JAZZ makes you set off on a journey through the unlimited expressive options of drums. Your tour guide here is Dejan Terzic, a German drummer of Bosnian origin who plays in quartet with Chris Speed on sax, Bojan Zulfikarpašic on piano and Fender Rhodes and Matt Penman on bass, to disclose an amazingly rich expressive realm, made of assorted moods, energy, strength, impressive depths of sound as well as hypnotic ostinatos. Dejan Terzic wrote all of the compositions on this record: his band-mates have risen to the challenge, weaving a wide-ranging, appealing plot with him. From the opening track, “Prometheus”, passing through “Red”, “Addiction and Subtraction” and “Sundance” all the way to the closing track, “New Parasomnia”, listeners will enjoy free improvisations, explosive rhythmic arrangements, dreamy interludes. Music moving from cheerful to passionate, from passionate to free, from free to structured, from structured to sweet, from sweet to outspoken, from outspoken to amusing, from amusing to inward-looking. Underlying this project is an extremely robust jazz, made up of key contributions, meetings, all-round musical life, which results in a fresh, novel, distinctive, irresistibly dynamic jazz.

Prometheus

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Dejan Terzic Underground: Diaspora

Styles: Jazz, Straight-ahead/Mainstream
Year: 2010
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 63:48
Size: 146,3 MB
Art: Front

(9:02)  1. Diaspora
(7:57)  2. Hopeful A Day
(7:58)  3. Baerentanz for Anke
(8:08)  4. Criminals Come and Go
(5:07)  5. Nothing Changed But Nothing Remained the Same
(7:06)  6. The Circus
(5:40)  7. Jewish Folksong
(7:47)  8. Lambtale
(4:59)  9. Aftermath

Dejan Terzic's musical vision emerges in his Diaspora, an album made with the musicians of the Underground project. And it could not be otherwise, as eight of the nine tracks in the ladder (to which "Jewish Folksong" is added) bring the signature of a drummer who lives in Germany, who succeeds in joining the jazz tradition with the stylistic peculiarities of his own land Thanks also to the support of collaborative and high tech technicians. Among them, Tino Derado plays a key role: the sound of his accordion is almost always at the center of the arrangements arranged by Terzic, and emanates continually the fragrances and musical ideas of eastern Europe, full of charm, tradition and irresistible appeal. Melodies that interweave with Brad Shepik's guitar-the only one that slides off some of the virtuosity out of the group and Chris Speed's fiatist. The leader does not give anything to the fine show to himself, but his way of conducting the music behind the drums demonstrates a rhythmic mastery of excellence, ranging from small hints to the decisive phrases, moving safely both to rigid binary and sluggish movements disparities. An intense and stratified album that stretches out for long stretches of minor tones capable of translating into the music the feelings of suffering of many peoples, forced to abandon their roots in search of freedom elsewhere, far too often just a façade. ~ AAJ Staff https://www.allaboutjazz.com/diaspora-dejan-terzic-enja-records-review-by-aaji-staff.php  (Translate by Google)

Personnel:  Dejan Terzic: drums;  Chris Speed: sax and clarinet;  Brad Shepik: electric guitar;  Tino Derado: accordion;  Henning Sieverts: double bass, cello.

Diaspora

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Dejan Terzic Quartet - Four For One

Styles: Jazz, Straight-ahead/Mainstream
Year: 1998
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 55:59
Size: 131,1 MB
Art: Front

(5:56)  1. Childish Things
(7:35)  2. Big Argument
(8:11)  3. Loose Ends
(6:13)  4. Night's Shadow
(5:59)  5. Spartacus Love Theme
(7:38)  6. Four For One
(8:45)  7. My Romance
(5:39)  8. Green Dolphin Street

28-year-old drummer, Dejan Terzic displays star qualities on "Four For One". Terzic, has been the recipient of numerous awards and here with his Quartet featuring the superb saxophonist George Garzone, also emerges as a mature bandleader. On the opener and Terzic original, "Childish Things" Terzic commences with some cool drum licks as he displays good textbook style discipline and a keen sense of swing. Terzic's composition titled, "Big Argument" is post bop modernism at its finest. George Garzone blows the walls down with blazing tenor work as Terzic and bassist Dietmar Fuhr keep this train a rolling'. Terzic is a well-schooled technician and has obviously paid much attention to the masters of years gone by. His drumming is characteristically crisp, multi-textured and dynamic while seldom overstating his cause or plight. Another Terzic original composition "Loose Ends" features Garzone's lyrical and melodic phrasing on soprano sax as the end results prove to be straightforward and succinct. Here, pianist Roberto Di Gioia provides tonal color and understated accents via a light touch and warm sonorous chord progressions as the potent rhythm section shift tempos. The mood thus far could be categorized as being positive and exuberant. On "Night's Shadow" The Quartet rekindles memories of Coltrane's early-mid 60's Quartet as Garzone renders a gutsy, soul searching and borderline free-jazz tenor solo. Terzic may have had Elvin Jones in mind on this up-tempo piece. The title track, "Four For One" commences with a relatively complex introduction as the band performs several bars in unison. Again, Garzone leads the attack with soaring, fluent and highly emotional tenor work. Pleasant renditions of Rodgers & Hart's "My Romance" and Washington & Kaper's "Green Dolphin Street" mesh well in the overall mix.Four For One is a no frills, extremely focused and to-the-point affair. Again, the talent scouts over at Naxos Jazz should be commended. Recommended! ~ Glenn Astarita https://www.allaboutjazz.com/four-for-one-dejan-terzic-review-by-glenn-astarita.php

Personnel: Dejan Terzic; Drums: George Garzone; Tenor & Soprano Saxes: Roberto Di Gioia; Piano: Dietmar Fuhr; Bass.

Four For One

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