Guitarist Jani Moder (1978) first began to play the classical guitar at the age of eight; he pursued his undergraduate studies in Austria, studying jazz and classical guitar at the Carinthian State Conservatory of Music and then graduated with distinction from the prestigious Berklee College of Music, USA, where he was the recipient of the award for outstanding musicianship. He is also active as leader of many different jazz projects.

Nova Gorica-based saxophone player Jani Šepetavec went to the Jazz Institut Kunstuniversität in Graz, Austria. As a musician, he participated in masterclasses lead by first-rate tutors (Don Menza, Dave Liebman, Jerry Bergonzi, Bob Mintzer, Donny McCaslin). He writes music for various projects as well as composes his own. As a multi-instrumentalist, he regularly collaborates with notable Slovenian musicians.

Janja Brlec is a top zither player and a first prize winner of several national and international competitions. Performing in a variety of musical styles, she wants to bring the zither closer to the wider audiences as a concert instrument of great dimensions and infinitude. She graduated with honors from the University of Music and Performing Arts in and holds a Master's degree from the Mozarteum University in Salzburg. She has performed as a soloist and in various chamber ensembles at numerous international festivals and concerts in Austria, Italy, Belgium, Hungary, Germany and Croatia and has collaborated with distinguished musicians such as the Salzburg Mozartplayers Orchestra, Kairos Quartett from Berlin, Mezzena Quartet from Italy, Izidor Erazem Grafenauer, Gal Gjurin, Jure Tori,… She is a member of the Slovenian Zither Quartet and Duo Kontrario. In an effort to make the zither recognizable as a concert instrument, she regularly collaborates with composers and performs on season concerts.

Januš Aleš Luznar, aka Yanoosh, is a Slovenian producer and composer known for blending acoustic and electronic elements in ambient, experimental music. His project Ictuscordis uses real-time heartbeats in live AV performances. He’s part of projects like Ohm Fat, Funksi, Yanwe, and JamJamJam. Since his 2009 debut hibernate 1000 miles from the earth (rx:tx), he’s explored electroacoustic genres, pushing sonic boundaries.

Jasna Žitnik is a versatile musician, singer, flautist, arranger, and pedagogue. She is versed in various areas of music ranging from music creation to music pedagogy and concert organisation. She is the artistic director and singer at the internationally acclaimed ensemble Jazzva, vocalist at the musical group Selecto, and leader of the ethno vocal ensemble Maroltovke as well as of the academic folklore group France Marolt. In recent years she has become increasingly dedicated to the charms of Slovenian folk music. She is one of the people charged with crafting the programme for the Ljubljana Vocal Festival, which explores the capacities and limits of the human voice. Last but not least, we mustn’t forget to mention her excellent arranging skills.

Jaša is a DJ, music journalist and promoter. He plays percussive bass, techno and leftfield club music. Sometimes, he steers into hypnagogic territory, mixing post-punk, jazz, ambient and experimental sonics. This adaptability is a result of his involvement at the legendary institution Radio Študent where he co-hosts Partijska Linija, a show dedicated to cutting-edge electronic and experimental music, and co-curates the morning show DJ Afterparty. He has performed at various regional club nights and festivals like Dimensions. Since 2018, he has been running the Cosmic Sex night, which recently found its home at Channel Zero. Cosmic Sex presents local DJs and established names of the global electronic underground like Ploy, Bruce and Lag.

The Festival Jazz Cerkno has been taking place in May since 1996 in the covered town square of Cerkno. Three evenings feature performances by musicians from around the world, ranging from established to less known artists, whose common purpose is inovative jazz music and the broadening of musical horizons in general. The type of jazz music that Jazz Cerkno offers is never obvious, since the programme focuses on unconventional and creative tones, on the collision of cultures and their musical practices, as well as the meshing of different approaches, with which jazz usually seeps into other genres. Rock, electronic, early and contemporary classical music, experimental and traditional ethnic idioms are thus interlaced with jazz music.

The Jazz Cerkno label was founded in 2018 with the aim of publishing music by Slovenian artists working in the field of jazz, improvised and creative music. They also offer publishing support to promising young musicians and their projects. An important mission of the label, in addition to the quality production of sound carriers, is also the promotion of Slovenian creativity with the goal of greater recognition of Slovenian musicians in the international arena. Even before the start of the label, the institute recorded concerts from the Jazz Cerkno festival. The result of archiving recordings of high-quality performers and original and unrepeatable performances attracted the interest of musicians as well as domestic and foreign labels, who often approached them with the desire to release recordings. Therefore, the establishment of their own publishing activity was a logical consequence and upgrade of their activity. As a co-publisher of albums with concert recordings from their festival, they also cooperated with the Cerkno label PureZen Records, with which they started the "Live at Jazz Cerkno" series in 2014. All Jazz Cerkno releases are on sale at jazzcerkno.bandcamp.com. Orders are also accepted by e-mail at info@jazzcerkno.si.

A place for all jazz enthusiasts. Location: Ljubljana

The Club opened its doors to the public on 19 February 1993. Since then, Satchmo’s basement premises have hosted over 500 concerts by established and less established musicians, thus placing the city of Maribor, and especially Jazz Club Satchmo, on a par with much bigger metropolises and clubs. Location: Maribor