
Jazz standard and authorial compositions, Gallery Klub, November 10th at 7 p.m.
MILORAD ŠULE JOVOVIĆ
Milorad Šule Jovović graduated from the Music Academy in Cetinje. He is known as the leader of the first Montenegrin jazz band “Piva Jazz Band”, through which almost all Montenegrin jazz musicians passed. As a Podgorica jazz guitarist, he works as a professor in the elective subject of jazz at the Art School for Music and Ballet “Vasa Pavić” in Podgorica. He plays various styles from blues, swing, be-bop, to hard bop and funk. He also works as a studio musician, especially as a solo guitarist. He has participated in various music projects and collaborated with many distinguished colleagues from the world of jazz music, including those of international caliber, such as François Jeanneau.
SARA JOVOVIĆ
Sara Jovovic was born in 1999 in Podgorica. At the age of six, she enrolled in the Lower Music School “Vasa Pavić” in Podgorica, where she graduated from the secondary music school for classical piano. She has performed at numerous festivals, including the Made in NY Jazz Festival in Podgorica from 2016 to 2020, with musicians such as Mike Stern, Randy Brecker, Wayne Escoffery, Dave Weckl, Alex Blake, Jerome Jennings, Vasil Hadzimanov and others. Along with this festival, she also performed with the Piva jazz band at the jazz festival in Bijelo Polje, Petrovac, and the jazz festival “Three Canyons” in Piva. She also performed in Berlin at the famous “Zig-Zag” jazz club with her father Šule Jovović and the band’s founder Ben Kraef, where she had the opportunity to perform Montenegrin jazz arrangements and original compositions. She also attended various jazz workshops: in Podgorica, led by Vasil Hadžimanov, in Herceg Novi led by Brad Leali and Claus Raible, and in Perugia at the Umbria Jazz Festival, where she received a scholarship for the prestigious “Berklee College of Music”. At Berkeley, she had the opportunity to learn from world-renowned musicians such as; Joanne Brackeen, Kenny Werner, Billy Killson, Kevin Harris and others.
The concert will be held on Wednesday, 10th November at 7 p.m.