Bora Roković
Borislav Bora Roković (born July 19, 1925 in Veliki Beckerek ; † July 13, 2006 in Cologne ) was a Serbian jazz musician ( piano , composition ).
Live and act
Roković was a pianist in the Radio Belgrade dance orchestra for a long time . In August 1962 he was heard and seen with it and with his own quartet on the TV show Jazz . In 1962 he succeeded Francis Coppieter's pianist in the Kurt Edelhagen Orchestra , of which he was a member until the end of 1971. He had occasionally worked as an arranger for the Edelhagen Orchestra since 1957. In 1972 he moved to the WDR dance orchestra, from which, with him, the WDR Big Band Cologne emerged. He also arranged and composed for Edelhagen and for the WDR Big Band. Among other things, he wrote a Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra , which he collaborated withFriedrich Höricke and the WDR orchestra recorded. In addition to the mentioned orchestras he is also on plates with Dusko Goykovich , the Metropole Orkest , the Yugoslav Jazz All Stars, with Milo Pavlović , Milivoje Marković , Heinz Kiessling , Caterina Valente ( Kurt Weill - American Songs ), Lala Kovačev and Helmut Weglinski to hear .
Discographic notes
- Balkan Express (Cosmic Sounds)
- Ultra Native ( MPS 1972, with Peter Trunk , Tony Inzalaco )
- Nona (PGP RTB 1980)
Lexical entries
- Jürgen Wölfer : Jazz in Germany. The encyclopedia. All musicians and record companies from 1920 until today. Hannibal, Höfen 2008, ISBN 978-3-85445-274-4 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jazz heard and seen (Jazz Institute Darmstadt) ( Memento from January 5, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Thomas Mau: The Kurt Edelhagen Orchestra - recordings from 1962. WDR 3, March 17, 2009.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Roković, Bora |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Roković, Borislav Bora |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Serbian jazz musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 19, 1925 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Zrenjanin |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 13, 2006 |
| Place of death | Cologne |