Duško Gojković

Dušan " Dusko " Gojković, Artist name: Dusko Goykovich (born 14 October 1931 in Jajce, Yugoslavia, now Bosnia - Herzegovina ) is a Serbian jazz trumpeter and flugelhorn player, arranger and bandleader.

Life and work

Goykovich belonged after his training at the music school in Belgrade from 1951 to 1955 on the local radio dance orchestra. After a short time at the Frankfurt All Stars in 1956 he went to Max Greger and 1957 to Kurt Edelhagen. After a first visit to the USA at the Newport Jazz Festival in 1958 with the International Youth Band of Marshall Brown, he worked in 1959 with Albert Mangelsdorff and the jazz ensemble of the Hessischer Rundfunk and played from 1960 again in the big bands of Edelhagen, Herb Pomeroy, Maynard Ferguson and Woody Herman, interrupted by a study at the Berklee School of Music in Boston ( 1961 ). He returned back to Germany in 1966 and founded his International Quintet in Cologne. In 1967 he was the head of the jazz combo in Gunther Schuller's Third Stream opera The Visitation, which was performed at the Hamburg Opera and the Met in New York. Since 1968 he is a soloist in Munich, inter alia, in the Kenny Clarke - Francy Boland band at Heinz von Hermann, Peter Herbolzheimer, The George Gruntz Concert Jazz Band, Joe Haider and Nicolas Simion and as leader of his own groups ( and operate a Soul Connection ).

In 2004, he took with an international All Star Big Band in Belgrade his CD A Handful of Soul on. His album Samba Tzigane appeared in 2006. Occasion of his 75th birthday, a concert was held in Belgrade.

Disco Graphical Notes

• Dusko Goykovich International Jazz Octet with Kenny Clarke (1961, with Francy Boland, Heinz Kretzschmar, Kurt " Bubi " Aderhold, Derek Humble, Karl Drewo, Jean Warland )
• Belgrade Blues ( RTB ( Produkcija gramofonskih plocha radio Televizije Beograd ) in 1966, with Sal Nistico and Carl Fontana)
• Swinging Macedonia ( Enja 1966, with Nathan Davis, Eddie Busnello, Mal Waldron, Peter Trunk, Cees See)
• Emergency: Emergency (1971, inter alia, with Hanus Berka )
• After Hours ( Enja 1971 Tete Montoliu with Rob Long Rice, Joe Nay )
• Dusko Goykovich & Roland Kovac Wunderhorn ( Selected Sound, 1977)
• Dusko Goykovich & Trumpets & Rhythm Unit Kovačev Branislav (1979, Good with Pero Ugrin, Stjepko, Ladislav Fidri, Bora Rokovic, Kresimir Rameta )
• Celebration (DIW, 1987) with Kenny Drew, Jimmy Woode, Al Levitt
• Balkan Blue ( with Wolfgang Schlüter, Bora Rokovic, František Uhlíř, Bruno Castellucci and NDR Philharmonic and Gianni Basso, Peter Michelich, Martin Gjakonovski, Kruno Levacicu ) 1992/1994
• Dusko Goykovich Soul Connection ( with Jimmy Heath, Tommy Flanagan, Eddie Gomez, Mickey Roker, 1993)
• In My Dreams (2000, with Bob Degen, Isla Eckinger, Jarrod Cagwin )
• Samba Tzigane (2006, with Ferenc Snétberger, Márcio Tubino, Céline Rudolph, Martin Gjakonovski, Jarrod Cagwin )
• Summit Octet (2008)
• Tight But Loose ( Organic Music 9757-2011 ) with Scott Hamilton
• The Brandenburg Concert (ENJ-9606 2-2013 )

Awards

Lexical entries

• Wolf Kampmann Reclams Jazz Encyclopedia Stuttgart 2003
• Martin Kunzler Jazz Encyclopedia Vol 1 Reinbek 2002