At this year’s 38th Valjevo Jazz Festival, the Radio Television of Serbia Big Band will dedicate a concert to Ted Jones, trumpeter, one of the most important composers and arrangers in the history of big band music. The famous jazz trumpeter Stjepko Gut will perform as conductor and soloist. It will be a kind of tribute to Jones as an author and to the “Thad Jones-Mel Lewis Orchestra” for which he wrote most of his author oeuvre, which he successfully conducted for many years.
At the concert that will be held on November 18 at the Valjevo Cultural Center at 8 p.m., a very demanding program will be performed, which, due to its technical complexity, is in the repertoire of only a small number of jazz ensembles. The combination of Stjepko Gut and RTS Big Band leads to a fantastic jazz journey, with original jazz improvisation and musicianship at the highest level.