An iconic and important club throughout the 90s and the first decade of 2000s. Only recently Gajo (and its owner, jazz drummer Drago Gajo) found a new regular venue for its fairly straight-ahead take on jazz.
Venues
There are currently only a few venues that could be labelled as a jazz club, with most of others being more ‘general purpose’.
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Slovenia
Besides Gajo, Prulček is possibly the closest in the recent decade or two that Ljubljana has gotten to a jazz club – one that actually grinds an almost daily series of gigs, ranging from local regulars to touring jazz, blues, fusion and folk bands.
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Slovenia
As it currently seems, the club closed its doors in 2020, after 27 years. The reasons aren’t known and the place may still resurface yet.
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Slovenia
The main concert venue for popular music (meaning, from hip hop and metal to jazz and even improv) in Ljubljana and Slovenia. Also has a smaller jazz concert series Impronedeljek.
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Slovenia
The venue for the Defonija series, sometimes FriForma, and other sporadic jazz concerts.
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Slovenia
Carinarnica is a cultural, inter-city juncture for the development of non-governmental and urban culture, located in the building of the former border-crossing between the two cities, between Italian Gorizia and Slovenian Nova Gorica.
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Studio 44 is a music venue in Krško, managed by the Big Band Krško. Every month it organizes jazz concerts of various ensembles from Slovenia and abroad.
