VLAD Project
Vladan Milenkovic, piano/electronics/melodica
Chris Merz, saxophones
Vladan Milenkovic, Serbian born and Boston based pianist and composer whose performing career spans two continents, has been a recent addition to the Twin Cities music scene. A powerful pianist with prodigious imagination and refined technique, Vlad merges acoustic and electronic mediums into emotionally charged sound-images which range from beautifully austere to exuberant to fairy-tale like. The depth of his music can be overwhelming. His compositions often transcend categorization, bringing together vocabularies of various cultures and epochs, East and West, jazz and classical, ancient and postmodern, groove and silence, Balkan roots and electronica beats.
This rendition of VLAD Project features saxophone virtuoso Chris Merz. Chris has toured four continents with Dave Brubeck and other members of the Brubeck family and played lead alto saxophone with several East Coast groups, including the Cecil Bridgewater Big Band. His own projects include Equilateral and the X-tet, a 12-piece big band.
