PLOTZ! California Tour 2012 with special guest MIROSLAV TADIC - Blue Whale (Los Angeles) October 18, 2012

“Dazzling progressive-jazz Balkan music.”
– Josef Woodard, Santa Barbara News-Press

“A s***-hot beam of musical illumination.”
– David Cotner, Ventura County Reporter

“This is not the typical Klezmer-inspired group playing standards from generations past, but master musicians blending many different genres at once, with a highly developed jazz and improvisational vocabulary.”
— Culver City News

“PLOTZ! is the unlikely bastard son of Ivo Papsov and Black Sabbath…festive heavy Bulgarian jazz rock, catchy as hell and quite accessible overall.”
– Monsieur Délire’s Blog

Last year PLOTZ! blew the roof off the Blue Whale, and we're returning to the belly of the whale for some more hardcore-Balkan-jazz-rock action! This year PLOTZ! is joined by their mentor and Macedonian guitar virtuoso MIROSLAV TADIC!!! Don't miss this rare opportunity to hear PLOTZ! with a true Balkan master in a truly beautiful listening space!

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MIROSLAV TADIC
Guitarist, composer and improviser Miroslav Tadic completed his formal music education in the United States after studying in Italy and his native Yugoslavia.

He has performed and recorded in a wide variety of settings and musical styles, ranging from music of the Baroque and Classical periods to Blues, Jazz, and Rock. Tadic's performing and recording credits include projects with Mark Nauseef, The Los Angeles Opera with Placido Domingo, Howard Levy, Joachim Kühn, L. Shankar, Markus Stockhausen, Dusan Bogdanovic, Vlatko Stefanovski, Teofilovic Brothers, Wadada Leo Smith, David Torn, Maria João, Jack Bruce, The Grande Mothers, Theodosii Spassov, Kudsi Erguner, Djivan Gasparyan, Pandit Swapan Chaudhuri and Ustad Ashish Khan, among others.

Tadic has recorded worldwide and his music can be heard on CMP Records, M–A Recordings, Third Ear, Avalon, Croatia Records, ENJA and Sony/BMG. He performs regularly in Europe, North and South America and Japan.

In recent years Tadic has concentrated on developing an approach to improvisation which combines and juxtaposes musical material drawn from many diverse sources, including Baroque, European classical and North Indian classical music, Flamenco, Eastern European folk traditions, Blues, Jazz, and Rock. He is noted for his pioneering work in applying the elements of classical and flamenco techniques to the electric guitar.

He has composed solo and chamber music which is published by Les Editions Doberman-Yppan. Tadic has written music for numerous experimental film, dance and theatre works and most recently completed music for Croatian feature film “Seventy Two Days” by Danilo Serbedzija.

Since 1985 he has been a professor at the prestigious California Institute of the Arts in Los Angeles.

For more thorough and detailed information on Miroslav Tadic, please check out an excellent interview with him at: http://www.innerviews.org/inner/tadic.html

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PLOTZ!
Exploding off the stage in jubilant musical celebration, PLOTZ! tips its hat to styles, stories, and influences from all over the world, while maintaining firm roots in Balkan folk music, jazz and rock.

PLOTZ! features:
Daniel Rosenboom - trumpet
Gavin Templeton - alto saxophone
Brian Walsh - clarinet and baritone saxophone
Jake Vossler - electric guitar
Orest Balaban - bass
Austin Wrinkle - drums

and special guest,
Miroslav Tadic, guitar

www.plotzmusic.com

Blue Whale
123 Astronaut E S Onizuka St., Suite 301
Los Angeles, CA 90012
(213) 620-0908
www.bluewhalemusic.com

Tickets: $10 at the door
Ages 21 and up (unless accompanied by a guardian)

Official Website: http://www.bluehwalemusic.com