Larry Vuckovich

Larry Vuckovich was created in Kotor, Yugoslavia, on Dec 8, 1936. He found SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA in 1951 in the height from the after that flourishing bop jazz picture. Classically qualified but an ardent jazz lover thanks to MILITARY Radio, he started going out at night clubs just like the Blackhawk as well as the Jazz Workshop, where he noticed such greats as Kilometers Davis, John Coltrane, Dizzy Gillespie, and Expenses Evans. In the Blackhawk he fulfilled Cal Tjader and Vince Guaraldi. He analyzed jazz piano as Guaraldi’s just piano student. During this time period he was also completing his music research at SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA State University or college, where John Useful was a significant influence around the school’s jazz system. Aswell as collaborating using the college students, Handy brought going to greats who also performed using the classmates of Vuckovich, including Milt Jackson, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Mickey Roker, Bob Cranshaw, and Larry Gales. Vuckovich started his professional profession in 1959 with tenor saxophonist Brew Moore. He started subbing for Guaraldi in 1960 associated performers David Allyn and Irene Kral. For this period he also performed with such instrumentalists as Useful and Monk Montgomery. In 1963 while associated Mel Tormé, he created a detailed musical rapport using the vocalist, and was his first-call pianist in SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA. Two years afterwards, Vuckovich started a longstanding association with vocalist and lyricist Jon Hendricks, showing up at main festivals and night clubs worldwide, aswell as executing in the long-running and well-known musical stage creation Evolution from the Blues. In the past due ’60s, he led the home band on the Domicile in Munich, Germany. Throughout that period, he backed going to jazz greats including Lucky Thompson, Slide Hampton, Pony Poindexter, Clifford Jordan, Dusko Goykovich, Philly Joe Jones, and Dexter Gordon, Back the U.S. in the later ’70s, Vuckovich caused Philly Joe Jones once again in SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA when he was the home pianist on the Keystone Korner. There he followed notables Arnett Cobb, Pal Tate, Charles McPherson, Leon Thomas, Eddie “Cleanhead” Vinson, and Scott Hamilton before club shut in 1983. In 1985, he shifted to NY where he made an appearance at all of the main jazz night clubs, support Billy Higgins, Cecil Payne, Al Cohn, Curtis Fuller, Milt Hinton, Mel Lewis, bassist Michael Moore, Tom Harrell, and Charles McPherson. In 1990, Vuckovich came back to SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA Bay region, where he’s among the mainstays from the jazz picture . He was the music movie director for the Western world Coast Jazz Celebration and Napa Valley Jazz Celebration, performed at Pearl’s and Yoshi’s, and in addition performed in concerts on the Bach Dance and Dynamite Culture near Half Moon Bay, the Herbst Movie theater, as well as the Palo Alto Jazz Alliance. Vuckovich also shown a very effective piano clinic offering the varieties of Costs Evans, Erroll Garner, Bud Powell, and Crimson Garland in the 2005 International Association for Jazz Education convention in Long Seaside. He resides round the Napa Valley region in Calistoga, north of SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA, along with his wife, vocalist and percussionist Sanna Craig. Furthermore to his trio, he fronts the organizations Blue Balkan, Small in mind, and La Orquesta un Vuko, and offers collaborated with Bobby Hutcherson, John Noticed, Noel Jewkes, Jules Broussard, Josh Workman, Harold Jones, Eric Golub, Eddie Marshall, Eddie Moore, Akira Tana, Larry Grenadier, Chuck McPherson, Paul Keller, Dottie Dodgion, John Santos, Omar Clay, and Orestes Vilató.