Goran Ivanovic & Fareed Haque Duo April 3, 2009

In collaboration w/ Sound Culture

Friday April 3rd, 2009 | 8pm, doors at 7pm

HotLoft @ Fizz bar & grill

3220 N. Lincoln Ave. Chicago, IL 60657

$15 In Advance, $15 Day of Show | www.hothouse.net for tickets | 21 +

Duo guitarists Goran Ivanovic and Fareed Haque draw on their diverse ethnic heritage to create stunning collaborations that mix dazzling virtuosity with epic sorrow.

Goran Ivanovic and Fareed Haque are two of the most gifted guitarists performing today. Their styles and backgrounds are vastly different, but as the Chicago Tribune wrote of them "when their two guitars play, cultural barriers melt away." Chicago Reader said, "Ivanovic is an exuberant interpreter... his tremendous energy is tempered with finesse and introspection...so that even the flashiest passages are graceful." Jazz critic Neil Tesser has remarked that Haque "possesses one of the great guitar techniques in modern music."

The son of Serbian and Serbo-Croatian parents, Ivanovic discovered guitar at the age of nine. In 1990, civil war was tearing a part Yugoslavia. At 12, he was separated from his parents, who deemed that his life would be safer and his talents better developed at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria. After studying classical guitar, Ivanovic immigrated to the United States. He re-united with his parents and later met Haque.

The more established of the duo, Haque is recognized by musicians and critics alike for combining sound-barrier breaking speed with precise combinations of notes and tones that seem to exceed the limits of that small wooden box. Born in l963 to a Pakistani father and a Chilean mother, Haque has enjoyed extensive stays in Spain, France, Iran, Pakistan, and Chile.

While listening to Haque play, you can somehow hear faint beats, cries, and nuances from these far away countries in each echoing tremolo. This background, combined with solid schooling in jumping jazz, helped Haque quickly gain a local reputation at Chicago clubs like The Green Mill in the early 1980s. Almost as fast as a scale in 11/8 time, he was then recruited to play and record with the likes of Dave Holland, Sting, Arturo Sandoval, Paquito D' Rivera, Joe Henderson, Ramsey Lewis, and Joe Zawinul. It was while touring with the Weather Report co-founder and jazz legend that Haque was smitten by the gypsy bug.

Bio excerpts compiled by writings of David Witter for Innerview and CDBaby.com

www.cdbaby.com/cd/ivanovichaque


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