JAZZ SQUARE - JAILHOUSE JAZZ QUARTET

Aleksandra Bijelić Aleksijević, vocals, completed simultaneously both Mokranjac Secondary Music School (Belgrade) in the Piano Department and the Stanković Music School (Belgrade) in the Department for Jazz Singing. She also graduated from the Department of Theory and Music Pedagogy at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade, where she is currently completing her master’s studies at the Jazz Department. Aleksandra Bijelić began her jazz vocal career in 2000, performing with the school big band, soon after which the doors of the Belgrade and the European jazz scenes started to open. Today, she collaborates with the RTS Big Band and the Belgrade Dixieland Orchestra and leads the Alex & the Fergusons Quintet. As a backing vocalist, Aleksandra Bijelić has collaborated with numerous musicians of the regional pop-rock scene, and her voice can be heard in commercials, jingles of TV shows, and in animated films. She is a Professor of Modern Singing at the Josif Marinković Secondary Music School in Vršac.

Ivan Aleksijević, pianist, first completed studies at the Stanković Secondary Music School  before enrolling in the Faculty of Music in Belgrade, at the same time launching into his performing career by playing in jazz clubs and at festivals on the national and international scene. He is a member of the RTS Big Band. He has collaborated with many great names on the jazz scene, such as Brad Lilly, Clark Terry, Benny Golson, Roy Hargrove, Diane Shuur, Don Menza, Duško Gojković, and Stjepko Gut. Ivan Aleksijević is also engaged in composing, writing music for film, theater, and television. As a composer and arranger, he collaborates with numerous jazz and world music ensembles, such as Ognjen i Prijatelji and Yupika Quintet. Ivan Aleksijević arranged tracks for Romano Raj, the first and only jazz album of the famous Šaban Bajramović.

 

 

Dragan Ivanović, bass guitarist, multi-instrumentalist and music producer, graduated from the the Faculty of Electrical Engineering in Belgrade. He is known to the audience in the Balkans as bassist of the Belgrade Mangus jazz fusion band, and to a wider audience as bassist of the Van Gogh and Neverne Bebe bands and bands of Đorđe Balašević and Vlado Georgijev.

Martin Đorđević, drummer, graduated in Jazz Drums at the Jazz Academy in Siena (Italy). He is an active participant of the club scene in Podgorica and beyond. Martin Đorđević is a permanent member of various jazz and rock bands, among them being Šule Jovović Kvartet and Senkina Đeca..