Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Matija Dedic Trio - MD in NYC (Origin Records 2011)


Matija Dedic, Kendrick Scott, Vicente Arsher
Her Name (M. Dedic) • Slawenskaya (M. Dedic) • Update (M. Dedic) • Maiden Voyage (H. Hancock) • Angst (M. Dedic) • Blue In Green (M. Davis) • Cheekee Chicks (M. Dedic) • Fragile (Sting) • Jungle Blues (M. dedic) • If I Where a Boy (Toby Gad)


All About Jazz (Dan McClenaghan)
Pianist Matija Dedic's MD in NYC tiptoes into existence on a delicate rhythm, joined in short order by a sprinkling of crystalline notes in the melody, with a whisper of brushes and spare but assertive bass lines. "Her Name" is one of the pianist's five originals in the set, and has a wistful reverence that speaks, perhaps, to a yearning inf...
Stereophile (Thomas Conrad)
Jazz has become a truly international art form in the new millennium, and some of its most creative players now come from places like Zagreb, Croatia. What makes Matija Dedic special is his touch and the way his poetic concept unfolds and deepens over the course of an album. Dedic is as seductive as Tord Gustavsen. The opening of the first track he...
Jazz Scan (Ric Bang)
This album demonstrates anew that jazz truly is an international art. Matija Dedic, born in Croatia in 1973, began to play classical piano at age 5: a common path for Eastern European music students. He had broadened his interests by his 18th birthday, and he subsequently entered the Graz Jazz Academy. After graduation, he delivered his style of ja...
Cadence (David Franklin)
Matija Dedic is a 38-year-old Croatian piano virtuoso who has played around the world with leading Jazz performers, including a number of well-known Americans, and won numerous awards world-wide. Bassist Archer and drummer Scott both boast extensive, impressive credentials. The modern mainstream MD in NYCis Dedic’s second album and the firs...
Jazz Review (Thomas R. Erdmann)
"***** 5-Stars" Zagreb Croatia native, pianist and composer Matija Dedic earned a collegiate degree from the Jazz Academy in Graz, Austria. Dedic comes from a musical family; his father received musical awards and his mom sang with Louis Armstrong and Phil Woods. Some of Dedic's piano teachers have included jazz stalwarts Hal Galper and Barry Ha...