The Jazz Ex Tempore is an intercultural and educational project which deals with traditional music heritage.

The main task of the project is a comparative research of the traditional music idioms from various parts of the world , as well as it's reshaping and re-composing to a contemporary world-jazz music.

The Project has an extemporary character, it is being crated on the spot. Thus come the similarity with such projects in fine arts, where artists create new pieces in a determined time and place.

Jazz Ex Tempore is a meeting of the significant world-jazz artists from several countries which compose, rehearse and play along the new and original repertoire during a one-week event. Each of them brings their own traditional music idioms and original compositions, that are going to be explored together, interactively rearranged, rehearsed, and performed at the end of the meeting.

The peak of the project are concerts of the selected compositions, live recording of a concert and releasing the Audio CD.

For the four seasons of the Jazz Ex Tempore, we had participating artist from Europe (Italy, United Kingdom, Finland, Holland, BulgariaAustria, Sardinia, Russia, France, Macedonia, Slovenia, Croatia), Asia (Armenia, Indonesia), Africa (Mali) and South America (Mexico, Cuba).

Namely: CHEICK-TIDIANE SECK (keyboards, voc) - Mali, SILVANO MUSTELIER CABREJAS (percussion) - Cuba, ARNAUD DELAFOSSE (drums) - France, VASIL HADŽIMANOV (piano, keyboards) - Macedonia, GIOVANNI TOFFOLONI (bass) - Italy, ELVIS STANIC (guitar) – Croatia, ERIC ZAWINUL (perccusion) - Austria, KAREN ASATRIAN (piano) - Armenia, JOSE LEONARDO ANGEL RODRIGEZ (drums) - Cuba, VLADIMIR SAMARDZIC (bass) - Vojvodina-Serbia, PUTOKAZI (vocal choir) - Croatia, ENZO FAVATA (sax) - Sardinia, DANIELE DI BONAVENTURA (piano, bandoneon) - Italy, YURI GOLOUBEV (double bass) - Russia, RATKO DIVJAK (drums) - Slovenia, SILVIA ABALOS (voc, trad. dance) - Mexico JOHANNA JUHOLA (acc) – Finland ANDREA VICARY (piano) – United Kingdom RICO DE JEER (double bass) – Holland, Indonesia HRISTO YOTSOV (drums) - Bulgaria

There had been 16 open and free public access workshops,where artists talked on their own cultural heritage, and about their personal and artist's life paths, oppinions, creative proceses, transfering a part of their experience and knowledge to the audience.

In the year of 2007, a CD has been released with live recordings from final concerts 2005 and 2006. This CD has won the National Discographic Award “Porin” in all three cathegories of Jazz music (The Best Jazz Composition, The Best Jazz Album and The Best Instrumental Performance).

In 2008. and 2009. , Jazz Ex Tempore, 4th ed. has been on tour in United Kingdom, Holland, Croatia and Bulgaria. In July 2009. a CD “Round Trip” has been released for Croatia Records.