“My solos sound like scales.”
We take a tune you already know and build lines over it that follow the chords. Keeping your place in the form is part of it too, so you stop getting lost halfway through a chorus.
The story
From Ljubljana to New York
Jure grew up in Slovenia, where he studied jazz at the Ljubljana Conservatory of Music and Ballet. In 2019, his last year there, his quintet Mood Lab 5et won first prize and a gold plaque at TEMSIG, Slovenia's national competition for young musicians.
Then he moved to Germany for a bachelor's at the Jazz-Institut Berlin, and spent time at Jazzcampus Basel. In 2023 he was one of nine musicians picked for Focusyear Basel, which paid their tuition and living costs for a year while they played in one band with visiting coaches such as Lionel Loueke, Wolfgang Muthspiel, Miguel Zenón, Kendrick Scott, Linda May Han Oh and Django Bates. In June 2024 the band went on tour and played the A-Trane in Berlin and Porgy & Bess in Vienna.
In 2025 he won first prize at TEMSIG for the second time, now with a quartet: Samo Hude on piano, Gal Golob on bass and Gaj Bostič on drums.
“One of the most notable young jazz ensembles.”
A year later he finished his master's at the Berklee Global Jazz Institute in Boston, the programme Danilo Pérez founded. He lives in New York now.
He has played with Kurt Rosenwinkel, Lionel Loueke, Kendrick Scott, Linda May Han Oh, Miguel Zenón, Aydin Esen, Peter Evans, Django Bates, Ingrid Jensen, Anders Jormin and Doug Weiss. Back home in Slovenia he has been a guest soloist with the RTV Slovenia Big Band.
Studied with
Lionel Loueke · Wolfgang Muthspiel · Peter Bernstein · Aydin Esen · David Friedman · Kalle Kalima · Paulo Morello · Jani Moder
