Lala Kovačev

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Branislav "Lala" Kovačev ( kyr. Бранислав "Лала" Ковачев ; born November 19, 1939 in Kikinda , Kingdom of Yugoslavia ; † September 4, 2012 in Hvar , Croatia ) was a Yugoslav - Serbian drummer and percussionist of modern jazz .

Life

Kovačev first played the trumpet before switching to drums and - influenced by Willis Conover's Jazz Hour - turned to jazz. At seventeen he became a member of the Radio Belgrade Jazz Orchestra , which was then directed by Vojislav Simic. In the mid-1960s he moved to Germany, where he joined Horst Jankowski's orchestra , with whom he toured internationally. In 1974 he moved to Max Greger , a year later to the NDR Rundfunk Orchester in Hanover. In addition, since the 1970s he led his own groups such as the European Jazz Consensus (with Gerd Dudek , Alan Skidmore and Adelhard Roidinger ), which was committed to avant-garde jazz ; he played fusion albums with Wolfgang Dauner and Michal Urbaniak and performed especially in what was then Yugoslavia with Dusko Goykovich . In the Trixi recording studio in Munich he took part in three productions by the composer Mladen Gutesha, always with the same rhythm group: Sigi Schwab , Eberhard Weber and Lala Kovacev worked with Chris Hinze , Benny Bailey and Charlie Mariano / Ack van Rooyen .

With his own groups, he developed an ethno-jazz that was based on the complex Balkan rhythms . He also played with musicians such as Art Van Damme , Chuck Israels , Ack and Jerry van Rooyen , Hans Koller , Albert Mangelsdorff , Stephan Diez , David Gazarov and Tony Scott , in whose albums he was partly involved.

Discographic notes

  • European Jazz Consensus Four for Slavia (Electrola, 1977)
  • European Jazz Consensus Morning Rise (Ego, 1977)
  • International Jazz Consensus Beak to Beak (with Allan Praskin , Adelhard Roidinger and John D. Thomas; Nimbus 1981)
  • Lala Kovačev Balkan Impressions (with Günther Klatt , Jovan Mikovic , Paul Grabowsky , Vojin Draškoci, Ljubomir Dimitrijevic; Nenad Jelic; RTB, 1982)
  • Lala Kovačev Balkan Impressions Vol.2 (RTB, 1983)
  • Izvorni Folklor i Jazz (RTB, 1985).

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personal data
SURNAME Kovačev, Lala
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kovačev, Branislav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Serbian jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH November 19, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Kikinda
DATE OF DEATH 4th September 2012
Place of death Hvar , Croatia