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The composer singer and flutist Tamara Obrovac from the Croatian city of Pula is one of the most impressive artists on the Croatian music scene.
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Tamara Obrovac Quartet - Porgy & Bess Vienna
"In Tamara Obrovac's music you can hear the deep connection she
holds with her native country and birthplace, Croatia and Istria.
With her amazing interpretation of often traditional musical components,
Obrovac opens the door to a wide range of international jazz expressions
and she does it with exceptional ease and great charm.
The highly talented singer is accompanied by a quartet of brilliant musicians
who with great sensibility manage to refine the expressiveness of her
songs and together they bring the musical experience to a superior level.
Ernst Weiss / Concerto Magazine, 7.12.2014
Tamara Obrovac Quartet - Jazz au Chellah concert review
"She is an audience-captivating phenomenon.
With her trio she brought a different kind of energy and soon had the
crowd pleading for more.
Obrovac has a phenomenal stylistic range and has the temerity to want
to take her trio into any number of moods."
Sebastian Scotney / London Jazz News, Sept. 2013
Tamara Obrovac Quartet - Jazz au Chellah concert review
"Obrovac indigenous music found attentive ears in the audience.
Her charismatic voice and moves captured quickly the audience..."
Mehdi El Mouden, All About Jazz, Sept. 2013
Tamara Obrovac Quartet - Jazzahead Bremen Showcase 2013.
I was most impressed by Tamara Obrovac's performance at the Jazzahead
showcase.
Tamara draws on the folk traditions of Istria but puts them in the context
of a jazz trio and the resulting music is a very original and attractive
blend of jazz and traditional music.
Tony Duddley Evans, April 2013, Jazzahead jury
Undoubtedly the greatest personality among Croatian female jazz vocalists,
charismatic Tamara Obrovac, gave us an extremely successful concert, not
only because of the packed house and the applause which lasted forever
(her eyes filled up and she said this is one of the things in life
worth living for), but also because of her interpretation and spontaneity,
her honesty and utter exposing in front of the audience to which she gave
herself to the full, through the music which should no longer be put into
any slot it is world jazz, period!
Several encores, happy audience, happy Tamara
the concert worth
of every praise.
Such amount of inspiration, improvisation, conversation and
interaction between the artists on the stage is rarely seen.
Ulika Revival relives to the full and is right on target.
A win-win situation for all parties.
Dinko Husadic Sansky, February 16, 2012
Tamara Obrovac quartet: The unique synergy of music and emotion
Freedom and improvisation
Yesterday, the Lisinski Hall enjoyed jazz to the full. It was a love at first sight. The rarely seen synergy of musical virtuosos and relaxed Tamara was completed by the whole-hearted energy they got in return from the grateful audience. To quote the second number performed at the concert, without a word a micro-cosmos of music and pleasure was created, which is impossible to put into words.
Beautiful musical experience
As often at Tamaras concerts, Crno zlo (Black
Evil) threw the audience into ecstasies.
What gives an additional
quality to this song is Tamaras very own approach to jazz: through
Crno zlo, her fascinating ability of improvisation manifests
itself in all its beauty , enrapturing the audience,making it laugh and
thrilling it completely.
Each Tamaras concert is a story for itself and no matter how many
times you listen to her songs, they always sound fresh and different.
Lisinski yesterday witnessed a rarely seen synergy of musicians and their
audience, which will be difficult to repeat.
Z. Jagodic, Index.hr , February 16, 2012
Tamara Obrovac transhistria ensemble & epoque quartet
Valamar Jazz Festival 2011
While we were still guessing what Tamara Obrovac was saying in
her speech in Croatian at the beginning of the second Valamar Jazz Festival,
there came a brief summary in English: "We are great - and now you
will hear it!" Self-confidence of the festival's artistic director
is more than justified.
With her brilliant performance in the Euphrasian Basilica in the historic
old city of Porec, inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage list, she has
presented the best of the Mediterranean; the melancholy of fado, the lightness
of tarantella and the lyrics in Croatian have melted with the fury of
the accordion player Fausto Beccalossi so organically that the following
concert of Richard Galliano Piazzolla Forever Septet seemed nothing but
perfectly boring.
Josef Engels, Jazzthing, September 2011
Tamara Obrovac Enchanted the Audience
Valamar Jazz Festival 2011
Tamara Obrovac with her Transhistria ensemble and the string virtuosos
of Epoque Quartet has once again given an unforgettable concert interwoven
with jazz, classical music and a pronounced Mediterranean spirit
the live performance offered a great dialogue of the Czech string players
and Transhistria ensemble musicians and enchanted the audience in the
Euphrasian Basilica, the same way that the album Madirosa enchants its
listeners.
Tibor Toromanovic, Glas Istre, 08.07.2011
Jazz is back!
Tamara Obrovac and Matija Dedi in Gronjan
Their music represents the very essence of jazz ...
It was this new encounter with Matija that inspired Tamara to a new creativity.
Namely, apart from the fact that the concert interpretations were totally different from those on the album, Matija and Tamara surprised each other by bravely embarking onto musical "tomfoolery" which was fully justified by the accomplishments of all band members. They all showed it by their virtuoso approach, full control over the instruments (and the voice) and by the ability for fast shifting into different styles.
Inspired by the setting and her willing colleagues, Tamara was absolutely brilliant in stunning improvisations which included scat, vocalises and narrative approach, ranging from the archaic tradition of Istrian music, through baroque and classical music to jazz, funk and rock.
Their music combines the very essence of jazz with the need to expand
the acquired knowledge", the importance to know the history and theory
of music, to be familiar with different musical idioms, to have stage
manners and the ability to create dynamics and communication both with
the colleagues and with the audience, to take risks, to plunge into the
unfamiliar and new, to elevate music onto a higher level...
D.Hrvoj, Novi list, September 02. 2011