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Shapes And Stories

by Milena Jancuric

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1.
Purple Shoes Steps 09:43
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2.
Don't Fall Me Fall 07:35
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3.
Circle And Lines 04:49
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4.
Memories 02:25
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5.
Steps And Curls 06:00
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6.
Blue Sparrow Dark Eyes 07:12
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7.
Dreams In You 07:31
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Starting from the second half of the 1950’s the flute began to take on the task of expressing with high, light, cheerful notes what the clarinet had expressed in the swing era in jazz recordings. Until that moment the flute in the liner notes of the records was mentioned under the heading “other instruments”. From Frank Wess and Bud Shank onward, through Sam Most, Herbie Mann, Yusef Lateef, Sahib Shihab, James Moody, Roland Kirk all the way to Eric Dolphy and Sam Rivers the flute has assumed its autonomy. Probably the advent of microphones created the technical conditions thanks to which this instrument – disadvantaged in competition with the trumpet or the saxophone whose penetrating sound dominated in the ballrooms of the twenties and thirties – began to be used as an instrument soloist adequately. Milena Jancuric, from Novi Sad, Serbia, is a true flutist, so to speak not a musician who came to play it through the saxophone or the clarinet, with an academic training and a frequentation of American circles (Berklee College of Music). Our label became aware of her talent when we released the album by her compatriot Sanja Markovic, appreciating especially, her “open” approach free from superstructures and conditioning. Milena is intense and light at the same time and with her sensitivity she manages to make us overcome the prejudice that wants the flute timbre to be ornamental and frivolous. All “Shapes And Stories” is imbued not only with a deep knowledge of the possibilities of the instrument but also with an extraordinary knowledge of the jazz lexicon. The two final ballads “Blue Sparrow Dark Eyes” and “Dreams In You” synthetize with their sounds what we want to express with our words. Listening is believing.

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released November 19, 2021

Milena Jancuric Flute
Aleksandar Dujin Piano
Ervin Malina Double Bass
Petar Radmilovic Drums
Milan Jancuric Tenor Saxophone
Aleksandra Denda Vocal
Lazar Novkov Accordion / Melodica
All Music Composed by Milena Jancuric
Recorded at Darko Varga Studio
Recording Engineer Darko Varga
Mixing and Mastering by Milan Jancuric
Album Art Cover by Petar Vucelic
Photos By Danilo Mijatovic
Executive Producer Antonio Martino A.MA Records
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