Playing sensitively, sophisticatedly and non-intrusively in the contemplative music style inaugurated by unique Bill Evans, Maja reaches the intellectual and emotional boost, unfortunately, so rare in contemporary jazz.
Jazz publicist
There was a translucent beauty in Ms Alvanovic’s playing: her style contemplative as to be expected of a Bill Evans disciple with Lennie Tristano touches evident too in her love of cliché- free solos.
A musical alchemist, Alvanovic has constructed a work of subtle elegance from western classical structures, jazz spontaneity and the complex rhythms of her native land. Often melancholic, sometimes exuberant but always enchanting.
A breath of fresh air; a beautifully lyrical player whose tunes are a reflection of her touch on the keys; delicate, fragile, precise and mesmerizing.