Jo Mikovich

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Jo Mikovich (born December 26, 1940 in Zaječar as Jovan Miković ; † February 21, 2014 ) was a Serbian jazz musician ( tenor saxophone , soprano saxophone , piano , violin , clarinet , arrangement , composition ) of Yugoslav origin.

Live and act

Jo Mikovich grew up in a family of musicians and learned to play the violin and clarinet from his father, a violinist who led his own orchestra. At the age of 17 he already studied clarinet and violin at the Belgrade Conservatory before switching to the saxophone as the main instrument. He preferred to play the Selmer Mark 6 saxophones and was a multi-instrumentalist. At the age of 23 he first moved to Frankfurt, from where he worked as a professional musician. During this time he played in American clubs all over Europe and was also a member of the official Belgrade Show Ensemble.

After attending the Newport Jazz Festival , he was with Jimmy Smith's band for a year and also played with jazz giants such as Charles Mingus , Cannonball Adderley and Chick Corea . In the 1970s he was the musical director and arranger of the Montenegro Singers (album Montenegro Singers 1977). In 1977 he was also one of the Yugoslav Jazz All Stars ( 4 Lica jazza ) with u. a. Dusko Goykovich , with whom he appeared frequently, most recently on the occasion of his 70th birthday, together with Charly Antolini . At the beginning of the 1980s he belonged to the Lala Kovacev Group with which he released the groundbreaking jazz / Balkan / fusion record Balkan Impressions in 1982. .

Since the mid-1980s he was based in Ulm, where he worked temporarily as a theater musician and released several albums under his own name. He continued to play at important jazz festivals around the world with well-known greats in the industry.

In 2003 his own composition Romantic Expectation was part of the soundtrack of the Hollywood blockbuster Down with Love with Renée Zellweger and Ewan McGregor .

He died of cancer at the age of 73.

Discographic notes

  • Talk about Love / Mad about You (Demon Records 1986, as Jo Mikowich )
  • Storm Thunder Lightning ( yvp music 1986, as Jo Mikowich )
  • Romantic Expectation (yvp 2000, with Ivan Aleksijević, Branko Marković, Luka Bosković)
  • Jasmin Song (Easy Piano Playing) (Demon 2000)
  • Jazzin ' (yvp 2001, with Imre Köszegi , Kálmán Oláh , János Egri )
as a sideman
  • 15th International Jazz Festival Ljubljana 74-Yugoslav Export Jazz Stars (Jugoton 1975, with Dusko Goykovich , Lala Kovacev , Bora Rokovic, Branko Pejakovic, Branislav Kovacev, Milan Lulic, Andrej Arnol)
  • 4 Lica Jazza (Jugoton 1978, YU All Stars with a.o. Dusko Goykovich , Bora Rokovic, Ratko Divjak, Bosko Petrovic, Ratko Divjak)
  • Lala Kovačev Balkan Impressions (RTB 1982, with Günther Klatt , Paul Grabowsky , Vojin Draškoci, Ljubomir Dimitrijevic, Nenad Jelic)
  • Montenegro Singers - Montenegro Singers (RTB 1977)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Jo Mikovich will be 70 Augsburger Allgemeine on Sunday . December 24, 2010
  2. ↑ ( Memento of the original from January 10, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sommerbuehneblautopf.de
  3. ↑ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0309530/soundtrack Down with Love Soundtrack - Jo Mikovich
personal data
SURNAME Mikovich, Jo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Miković, Jovan (real name); Mikowich, Jo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Yugoslavian, later Serbian jazz musician (tenor saxophone, piano, arrangement, composition)
DATE OF BIRTH December 26, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Zaječar
DATE OF DEATH February 21, 2014