Dubravko Vorih Quintet - Live In Sax (2020)

The CD "Live In Sax" (Dancing Bear DBCD 038) is signed by the "Dubravko Vorih Quintet", which consists of the cream of Zagreb jazz musicians: bass guitarist Dubravko Vorih, drummer Krunoslav Levačić, tenor saxophonist Saša Nestorović, pianist Matija Dedić and guitarist Darko Jurković-Čarli from Rijeka. Vorih put together a CD of several very successful and equally high-quality performances of standards recorded live in the Zagreb jazz club "Sax" - "Billie's Bounce", "In Your Own Sweet Way", "You've Changed", "Love Is Here To Stay ”, “There's No Greater Love”, “Nigtingale Song In Berkley Square” and “Four Brothers” - performed as the signatories of the CD, extremely competent interpreters of all branches and branches of jazz, think they should be played today - with a lot ardor and refinement.
Everything here is expertly arranged: the arrangements are attractive, the performances are suggestive and convincing, the quintet, surely even after only a few rehearsals, plays well-coordinated, solid and confident because each of them has already played with each other countless times in different lineups, occasions and projects. The standards, performed by the "Dubravko Vorih Quintet", are communicative, full-blooded music - in tempo and dynamics - full of rhythm, lively, dynamic, attacking, and in the slower numbers subtle, casual, relaxing and at times even meditative, drinkable and melodious, receptive, seductive... When they need to be, the performances are energetic and fierce, all the participants in the solo sessions are inventive and imaginative, and their improvisations are dynamic, bravura and exciting, often provocative, organically building on each other,