Milivoje Marković

Milivoje "Mića" Marković ( Serbian - Cyrillic Миливоје "Мића" Марковић ; born March 20, 1939 in Zagreb ; † July 5, 2017 ) was a Yugoslav or Serbian jazz musician ( saxophones , clarinets , composition).

Live and act

Marković first studied law, then music at the Graz Music Academy and played in the early 1960s at Mirko Souc Sekstet, with whom he made his first recordings in Belgrade and performed at the second and third jazz festivals in Bled. In the following decades he worked with Janez Gregorec and His International Orchestra, with whom he made a guest appearance at the 10th International Jazz Festival Ljubljana in 1969, as well as with the jazz orchestra of RTV Beograd ( Orkestar RTB Sa Gostima ) and the BP Convention under the direction of John Lewis and Miljenko Prohaska ( Mistery of Blues (Misterij Bluesa) ). In 1980 the first recordings were made under his own name with a sextet led by Marković with trumpeter Stjepko "Steve" Gut . The sextet appeared with Clark Terry ( Live in Belgrade , 1982) and Ernie Wilkins and made guest appearances. a. also at the North Sea Jazz Festival . From the late 1990s he led a quartet with the pianist Mirko Petrović ( Around Balkan Midnight ).

In the field of jazz he was involved in thirty recording sessions between 1960 and 1998. a. also with Bora Roković , Vladimir Furduj , Milimir Drasković and with Vladana Marković and the RTB Big Band. He wrote the compositions Otpisani, Ballad in Escutable and Stemi ; he also worked as a film composer in the 1970s. He wrote the music for the films Explosion in der Zentralgarage (1974) and Povratak otpisanih (1976), directed by Aleksandar Đorđević .

Discographic notes

Marković / Gut Sextet (1980), with Steve Gut, Nikola Mitrović, Miloš Krstić, Bora Roković, Vojin Draskoci, Lazar Tosić
Message from Belgrade: Marković / Gut Sextet (Timeless, 1983)
Ernie Wilkins in Belgrade with Sextet Gut-Marković (RTB, 1984)

Web links

Individual evidence

^ The International Who's Who in Popular Music 2002 , edited by Andy Gregory, 2002, p. 335.
↑ Biographical information at Discogs
↑ Tom Lord The Jazz Discography (online, accessed August 17, 2016)

personal data
SURNAME	Marković, Milivoje
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Marković, Mića
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Yugoslav-Serbian jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH	March 20, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH	Zagreb
DATE OF DEATH	5th July 2017

[1] The International Who's Who in Popular Music 2002 , edited by Andy Gregory, 2002, p. 335.

[2] Biographical information at Discogs

[lord-3] Tom Lord The Jazz Discography (online, accessed August 17, 2016)