INES TRICKOVIC SEXTET ARE :
Ines Trickovic -vocal
Luka Zuzic - arrangements, TromboneAndreas Marinello & Grgur Savic
- saxophoneHrvoje Galler-piano
Zvonimir Sestak-double bassKrunoslav Levacic- drums
This is a special project that began in November 2011, on the initiative of vocalist Ines Trickovic and some of the most respected jazz musicians of the new generation in Croatia.
They decided to combine the music of a composer Zdenko Runjic and jazz. Their mission- to bring to the world a piece of their cultural heritage and their own style through universal language of jazz. They have presented this program throught Asia and Europe, where they performed among others on a prestigious Hong Kong International jazz festival, OCT LOFT jazz festival in Shenzhen, Macao, Beishan jazz festival etc. The album ‘’Runjic in Blue’’which was declared by the critique as one of the most modern jazz vocal albums ever recorded in Croatia and in year 2014 was awarded the highest Croatian music award ''Porin'' for best jazz performance of the year.
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Zdenko Runjić was Croatian songwriter based in Split. In his long career, he established himself as the most prolific and most popular songwriter of the former Yugoslavia, now Croatia. Many of his songs were inspired by the folk traditions of Dalmatia. The songs became classics. He wrote almost 700 songs which sold several million copies in the form of albums and singles.
