Four musicians who have been crossing paths on stages for almost 25 years are finally playing under their own name. „Jazz Extravaganza” comes to Javna Soba in Skopje on August 22 starting at 21:00, with Dzijan Emin on keyboards, Georgi Shareski on guitar, Oliver Josifovski on double bass and Aleksandar Petrov on drums.

The two carrying the project are among the most active names on the Macedonian jazz scene. Georgi Shareski is a composer, arranger and guitarist who, after four years studying jazz composition and arranging in the United States, came home and formed his own quartet in 2006. Dzijan Emin plays French horn, synthesiser and melodion, and as a horn player has performed with the Macedonian Philharmonic and the Belgrade Philharmonic. Both are also part of the international project The Skopje Connection, where trumpeter Luca Aquino plays alongside them.

The evening brings no standards, but original music. That is the difference worth noting: jazz concerts in Skopje most often run through the safe repertoire, while here the four play their own material. Their shared experience covers domestic and international performances, music for theatre, film, television and advertising, plus collaborations with musicians established outside the region. Each of them also has a career of their own away from the group.

The ticket costs 400 denars and is bought via tix.mk. Javna Soba on 50-ta Divizija is a space with limited capacity, which for a line-up like this means listening up close, not from the twentieth row.