ALBUM NUVOLA WON 3 PORIN AWARDS

Tamara Obrovac quartet won 3 Porin croatian national music awards in all 3 jazz categories

At the award ceremony on March 23, 2024. Tamara Obrovac quartet was awarded with three Porin awards in all three jazz categories:
- best jazz album
- best original jazz composition - Oče moj / My father (T. Obrovac)
- best jazz performance - Dvi divojke / Two maidens (T. Obrovac)

Nuvola is Tamara’s 14th album, recorded at the Istrian National Theater in Pula late 2022, the third one created by this outstanding musician and author and her Tamara Obrovac Quartet.

Seven original compositions are featured on this album, from the opening Na nebu postelja, through La nuvola (Cloud) from which the album takes its name, Zatancaj, Dvi divojke and Niki drugi svit, to the closing Oče moj and Kovarskih litanija.
Tamara Obrovac is the author of all the compositions and lyrics on Nuvola, with the exception of the lyrics of the compositions La nuvola and Kovarske litanije which were written by Daniel Načinović, an acclaimed Istrian poet and Tamara’s regular associate.

Like the previous albums, this one was also recorded by the quartet lineup that has not changed since 1997: Tamara Obrovac (vocalist), Matija Dedić (piano), Žiga Golob (double bass) and Krunoslav Levačić (drums).

Since 1997. the quartet performed at numerous national and regional stages, and held a number of well received concerts at some of the renown international jazz festivals and clubs (such as Luneburger Jazz Nights, Jazzahead Bremen, Dusseldorfer Jazz Rally, Jazz au Chellah Maroko, Jazz Festival Steyr, Jazz meets World Prague, etc.)

Here is what London jazz news noted after Jazz au Chellah concert in front of more then thousand thrilled visitors:
"She is an audience-captivating phenomenon.With her trio she brought a different kind of energy and soon had the crowd pleading for more. Obrovac has a phenomenal stylistic range and has the temerity to want to take her trio into any number of moods."

The Quartet’s concerts promoting Nuvola in front of the sold-out auditoriums took place on concerts at the JazzHR Festival in the Tvornica culture Zagreb on March 29, in Split, April 27, Hrvatski dom Splitand Zadar April 28, Providurova palača, showing once again all the splendour of their musical performance in front of the thrilled audience.