Album Notes

Composition/arranging/Jazz Guitar/Singing are the 4 key elements that create Vladimirs music world.
He was Born in the city of Ohrid, Macedonia where he began playing music at age of eight. His first instrument was violin but soon he started deveveloping affinity towards the guitar. It was during high school when Vladimir made his first contact with jazz music by listening sound recordings of George Benson, Quincy Jones, Herbie Hancock to name a few. That gave him an enourmous appreciation of the depth of Jazz Music and of the individual virtuosity that a great Jazz musician poseses.

After being awarded the B.E.S.T scholarship he moved to the United States to study at the world renowned Berklee College of Music. There he studied with some of the worlds finest Professors and Jazz Musicians such as Richie Hart, John Tomas, Ed Tomassi, Garisson Fewell, Greg Hopkins, Ken Cervenka, Donny Nollan, Jay Kennedy and many more. The five years of intensive study at Berklee resulted into mastering composition, arranging and Jazz guitar to a highest level. In 2001 Vladimir graduated from Berklee College of music with a degree in Contemporary Writing and Production wit Jazz guitar as his main instrument. Vladimir's music style spans from pop, soul, dance, funk, r&b to mainstream jazz. His musical influences include Quincy Jones, Wes Montgomery, Sonny Stitt, Earth Wind and Fire, George Benson, Jamiroquai, Lenny Kravitz, Michael Jackson, to name a few.


While in Boston, Vladimir became professionally active as a arranger/composer/guitarist and vocalist working with different producers, studios and artists in the U.S.A , Spain, Japan and as well as in his home country Macedonia.


Reviews:
Gentlemen.......Start your engines!! Nouveau jazz guitarist Vladimir Cetkar takes us for a very animated ''lap'' around the raceway of jazz. Vlad carries on the great tradition of the 'horn line' with his fiery, yet intellectual melodic improvisations.

His unique style of harmonic articulation belies
his marvellous facility & ease with his beloved ax. Suffice it to say Cetkar is a formidable artist with a passionate propensity to swing mightily..........A talent the masses will have to reckon with, as he
evolves gainfully into our cherished jazz idiom.

George W. Carroll/The Musicians' Ombudsman (www.ejazznews.com)