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 Vasilić
is a prominent jazz artist – double bass player and composer, who has been present on the European music scene for more than 25 years. Vasilić performs his original compositions, inspired by Balkan rhythms, jazz and classical music, with great success in various ensembles – from a duo to a sextet, as well as in solo performances. Vasilić recorded 13 albums under his own name, in different formations. In 2014, he was appointed as an ambassador for integration at the Austrian chancellor's cabinet, and in 2018 as a creative ambassador of the "Serbia creates" platform, within the project of the Council for Creative Industries of the Government of the Republic of Serbia. With the support of this project, he marked two decades of professional activity in Austria by publishing the sheet music book "Songbook - 33 Original Compositions". In 2017, World Music Association of Serbia gave him the highest recognition: "Vojin Mališa Draškoci" award. In April 2020, Nenad Vasilić was appointed as a full-time professor and the head of the double bass department at the Berlin Jazz Institute (Universität der Künste Berlin). The music he creates is in constant interaction with the audience, since he has over 80 performances a year, on concert stages, festivals and in clubs throughout Europe.

With nearly 40 original compositions on 13 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.

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