Martin Gjakonovski

Martin Gjakonovski (2017)

Martin Gjakonovski (* 1970 in Skopje , Macedonia ) is a jazz bassist of Macedonian origin living in Germany . He is considered one of the most prominent jazz bassists in Europe.

Live and act

Gjakonovski comes from a family of musicians; his mother was the jazz singer Katica Gjakonovska; his father Dragan Gjakonovski-Špato founded and directed the Radio Skopje Radio Dance Orchestra. Gjakonovski learned to play the violin from the age of six and switched to the double bass at the age of 14 . Soon he founded his first band, the Trio Spato. In 1991 he came to Germany to study with Rainer Linke and Dieter Manderscheid at the Cologne University of Music . He also attended master classes with Reggie Workman , Arild Andersen , John Clayton , Mike Richmond and Eddie Gomez .

Gjakonovski worked in the groups of Lynne Arriale , Olivia Trummer , Paul Shigihara , Nicolas Simion , Bojan Z , Anders Bergkrantz, Omer Klein and the Frankfurt Jazz Big Band . With musicians like Roman Schwaller , Andy Middleton , Tony Lakatos and Charlie Mariano , he has been a guest at important European festivals, for example in Zagreb, Brussels, Bilbao, Krakow and Leverkusen . He was part of Paul Kuhn's combo for more than seven years . He presented an album with Hugo Read and Thomas Cremer in the Frankfurt Jazz Trio and was part of Markus Burger's Septer Bourbon . So far he has recorded more than 120 jazz and world music CDs, including a. with Dusko Goykovich , Paul Kuhn, Nicolas Simion, Antonio Faraò , Bob Berg , Michael Sagmeister , Anke Helfrich , Torsten Goods , Ferenc Snétberger , Dejan Terzic European Assembly , Claudius Valk Trio, Ratko Zjača / Simone Zanchini / Adam Nussbaum , Richie Beirach and Gerd Dudek .

Web links

• Portrait (Challenge Records)
• Entry (Musikhochschule Mainz)
• Martin Gjakonovski at Discogs (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Portrait (StyriArte). (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; accessed on August 18, 2019 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  
2. ↑ ^{a b} Frankfurt Jazz Trio. Retrieved August 18, 2019 . 
3. ↑ Jazz in the Ministergärten 2002. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; accessed on August 18, 2019 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )