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rec. May 1995
CRESCENDO: No reservations in recommending.
Dusko Goykovich has been continually active as a big band player since 1950 when the 19-year-old became a member of the Belgrade Radio Band. He moved to Germany in the early fifties where he played with the renowned orchestras of Max Greger and Kurt Edelhagen. He came to the States as a member of the Newport Youth Band in 1958. After studies at the Berklee School of Music he was hired by Maynard Ferguson and soon became one of the most prolific big band trumpeters on the international scene. He worked and recorded with Woody Herman (1964/65) and the Kenny Clarke-Francy Boland Big Band (until 1976) before founding his own big band in Munich, Germany.
Munich-based Dusko Goykovich re-entered the international scene with his 1994 quintet release "Soul Connection" that gained the German Jazz Critics Award and a four-star rating from Down Beat. Like on "Soul Connection", his compositions and arrangements on "The Balkan Connection" recall the spirit of Miles Davis as well as Dusko's Balkan roots. His well-chosen big band personnel delivers an hour of swinging music that crosses the borders between pure bebop, ethnic reminiscences, and the cool sounds of the fifties. Above all, as the main soloist Dusko Goykovich proves once more to be one of today's very few original voices on trumpet and fluegelhorn.
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