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i am obsessed with dusko! :excited:

having bought from board member Joe "After Hours" and "Swinging Macedonia" i am looking for MORE!!!

recommendations PLEASE!!

here's a discography site i found, so it looks like there is a lot out there!! :)

http://www.cosmicsounds-london.com/DUSKO/goykovic.html

http://www.cosmicsounds-london.com/DUSKO/bio.htm

What is mind-blowing about this bio is that not once is Larry Vuckovich mentioned. How can one of the two greatest Serbian jazz musicians be left out?

From the Dusko bio:

"1997 saw the release of the 2-CD set "Balkan Blue", another high point in his career."

... but:

1980 saw the release of Vuckovich's "Blue Balkan" (with Hutcherson playing the long complex heads from memory after one listen - 'cause he forgot to bring the sheet music ! ... shades of Woody !)

2000 saw the release of Vuckovich's "Blue Balkan : Then And Now"

Larry's bio does not share the same flaw:

http://www.larryvuckovich.com/biog.htm

"Besides touring with Hendricks, in the late '60s Larry led the house band at what was then Germany's top jazz club, The Domicile, in Munich. In that role, he backed visiting jazz greats including Lucky Thompson, Slide Hampton, Pony Poindexter, Clifford Jordan, and Dusko Goykovich. Larry was a member of Dusko's International Quintet, recording a live album with the Quintet at the Domicle. It was also at the Domicile in Munich where he worked with the master drummer Philly Joe Jones, with whom he went on to tour Europe (see the Gallery shots here). He also performed with Dexter Gordon in Austria and in Copenhagen at the famous Montmartre jazz club."

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Besides "Ten to two blues", retitled "After hours" in non-Spanish reissues, and already mentioned, there´s another disc with Tete Montoliu that is at least as good: "It´s about blues time" .

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I fairly recently picked up "Swinging Macedonia" - great one!

The Nathan Davis looks good - I've liked what little I've heard of his (mainly the "Two Originals" MPS disc from the late 90s) - who's on that one, besides Dusko?

The Nada Jovic disc pictured above I have, too, as well as the Ensayo version of "After Hours" (titled "Ten to Two Blues").

There's another fine album done a day before "AFter Hours" with Ferdinand Povel added on tenor, "It's About Blues Time". I think there's been a Freshsound CD issue of that one - here's the cover (tough to find online, hence my own saved jpg):

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By the way, right now, a short 1971 show of Dusko's is running on dime (courtesy of yours truly), for those interested...

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Here's the details for the Nathan Davis:

TITLE Nathan Davis Group- "London By Night"

RECORDED August 17 & 18, 1987 in London

ORIGINAL Hot House HH 1004, UK

RE-ISSUES DIW 8019

DIW 813 (CD), 1994, Japan

MUSICIANS:

Dusko Goykovich (tp,flh), Nathan Davis (ts,ss), Kenny Drew (p), Jimmy Woode (b), Al Levitt (ds), Jean Toussaint (ts), Stan Robinson (ts)

TITLES:

1. Noite Em Leblon (N. Davis) 6'39

2. Rio De Janeiro (N. Davis) 6'00

3. London By Night (C. Coates) 4'14

4. Dr. Bu (N. Davis) 2'41

5. You've Changed (Fisher/ Carey) 6'25 *6. Lament (J.J. Johnson) 5'46

*7. If I Fell (Lennon/McCartney) 7'14

* additional titles on CD

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I've got the vinyl somewhere in the racks - I'll have to dig it out.

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Here's the details for the Nathan Davis:

TITLE Nathan Davis Group- "London By Night"

RECORDED August 17 & 18, 1987 in London

ORIGINAL Hot House HH 1004, UK

RE-ISSUES DIW 8019

DIW 813 (CD), 1994, Japan

MUSICIANS:

Dusko Goykovich (tp,flh), Nathan Davis (ts,ss), Kenny Drew (p), Jimmy Woode (b), Al Levitt (ds), Jean Toussaint (ts), Stan Robinson (ts)

TITLES:

1. Noite Em Leblon (N. Davis) 6'39

2. Rio De Janeiro (N. Davis) 6'00

3. London By Night (C. Coates) 4'14

4. Dr. Bu (N. Davis) 2'41

5. You've Changed (Fisher/ Carey) 6'25 *6. Lament (J.J. Johnson) 5'46

*7. If I Fell (Lennon/McCartney) 7'14

* additional titles on CD

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I've got the vinyl somewhere in the racks - I'll have to dig it out.

i have this one as well - it SMOKES!!!!

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Sony Italy has recently reissued the extremely rare Slavic Mood, which came out in 1975 on Vista, a short-lived subsidiary of Italian RCA. Here's the details:

Dusko Govkovich (tp), Ben Thompson (ts,ss), Vince Benedetti (p), Joe Nay (b), Andy Scherrer (ds), Rome, October 24 & 25, 1974

[ 1] Slavic Mood

[ 2] Got No Money

[ 3] No Love Without Tears

[ 4] Old Fisherman's Daughter

[ 5] Kosmet

[ 6] East Of Montenegro

[ 7] Flying Rome

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Is that Andy Scherrer the tenor sax and piano player? Didn't know he also was good enough to record on drums! Wow!

Who's Ben Thompson, never heard of him...

I've always thought that the credits on the LP are wrong (I have the original vinyl, and the CD reissue is an exact reproduction). I guess that Scherrer is playing saxophone, and that the mysterious Ben Thompson is on drums. Next time I see Dusko (he plays in Italy quite often, having a group with Gianni Basso) I'm going to ask him.

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By the way, this is what came out on RCA Vista (the label lasted only a couple of months: most of these LPs came out in May, 1975...) and has never been reissued, except the Goykovich and (I think) the Lacy:

TPL1-1082 Mario Schiano/Marcello Melis Perdas de fogu (with Don Pullen, Sheila Jordan, Ray Mantilla, Jerome Cooper). This is a great record.

TPL1-1097 Steve Lacy Flakes

TPL1-1113 Patrizia Scascitelli Ballata

TPL1-1114 Maurizio Giammarco / Andrea Centazzo Davanti e oltre la soglia

TPL1-1115 Dusko Goykovich Slavic mood

TPL1-1116 Enrico Rava Pupa o crisalide (with John Abercrombie, Jack DeJohnette, Jeanne Lee and many others; the remaining tracks from this album came out later on "Quotation Marks" for Japo)

TPL1-1117 Mario Schiano Partenza di Pulcinella per la luna

TPL1-1149 Gato Barbieri/Luis Enriquez Bacalov Desbandes

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giving this one a spin again:

dg02.jpg

you'll love this, BM - get yourself a copy!

it's a collection of latin tracks, dusko often muted, his mellow sound and lyrical delivery perfectly backed by Ferenc Snetberger on acoustic guitar (a Hungarian born into a Sinti/Roma family), Martin Gjakonovski (from Macedonia, I know him from Antonio Farao's trio, mainly) on double bass, and Jarrod Cagwin (member of Rabih Abou-Khalil's badn for quite some years now) on drums.

The quartet plays compositions by Jobim, Mihanovich, one by Heitor Villa-Lobos, and some Dusko originals.

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I'll pay more attention to that Samba del Mar CD from Dusko. It pops up pretty often in the shops here!

Thanks for the recommendation!

Snetberger may be familiar from his work with Markus Stockhausen (Karlheinz' son, a fine trumpet player - I once saw him in concert with Dhafer Youssef). It's really special to have that much purer guitar sound (I assume it's some kind of acoustic-electric guitar he plays, a plugged in acoustic guitar, or otherwise he's very closely miked, it's nothing like "spanish" or "classical" guitar, but nothing like your usual electric guitar, either).

There's a follow-up album called "Samba Tzigane", Dusko's latest. I haven't heard it, but I shall try and get an earful at a store some day:

enj9489.jpg

DUSKO GOYKOVICH

SAMBA TZIGANE

ORDER NO. ENJ-9489 2

Dusko Goykovich trumpet, flugelhorn

Ferenc Snétberger guitar

Márcio Tubino flutes

Céline Rudolph vocal

Martin Gjakonovski bass

Jarrod Cagwin drums, percussion

1. Samba Tzigane 06:54 | 2. Melodia Sentimental 04:59 | 3. Menina Moça 07:08 | 4. O Grande Amor 06:16 | 5. A Descoberta De Lentidao 03:43 | 6. Trio Loco 03:04 | 7. Samba Triste 04:13 | 8. Coraçao Do Sul 03:31 | 9. Five O'clock In The Morning 05:13 | 10. Éste Seu Olhar 03:42 | 11. Every Day And Every Night I Dream Of You 07:30

Total time: 56'13

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