The Brandenburg Concert - CD

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Dusko Goykovich has dreamed, as far back as he can remember, of music, his personal metaphor for life. He left Yugoslavia to try to realise his dreams. In Germany he met Louis Armstrong, Zoot Sims, Lionel Hampton, Hans Koller. Dizzy Gillespie put his bent trumpet into Dusko s hands and, soon, the young man had also begun long-term friendships with Chet Baker and Miles Davis. He toured in America with Maynard Ferguson and Woody Herman, and uopn returning to Germany cut a host of albums for Enja with Mal Waldron, Nathan Davis, Tete Montoliu, Kenny Drew, Gianni Basso, Tommy Flanagan, Kenny Barron, Jimmy Heath, Abraham Burton and many more. Now, at age 82, Dusko sees another long-nourished dream become reality. Perhaps this project would not have been right for the impetuous young bebopper, but in May of 2013, it became very right. It was then that he found himself standing, in a perfect moment, on the stage of the Brandenburg Theater with the string section of the Brandenburg Symphonic Orchestra. There was nothing to prove the majesty of his horn found a match in the magic of the violins, violas and cellos. Dusko and the band with Renato Chicco on piano, Martin Gjakonovski on bass, Vladimir Kostadinovic on drums and arranger Peter King on alto saxophone, have given a timeless and highly attractive lustre to his own classics.