Central European and Balkan jazz

Location · 1960s → · Prague, Belgrade, Budapest · Hybrids and world

Jazz from the Czech Republic, Hungary and the Balkans, where Moravian, Serbian or Macedonian folk music meets improvisation. Duško Gojković embodies it from 1966 with Swinging Macedonia.

Where it comes from

• Cool (Birth of the Cool)

Artists

• Dusko Goykovich (1931–2023, trumpet, flugelhorn, composition)
• Emil Viklický (1948, piano, composition)

Tracks to start with

• Macedonia — Dusko Goykovich (1966)
• Balcan Blue — Dusko Goykovich (1966)
• Austerlitz — Emil Viklický & George Mraz (2013)
• Theme From 5th Part of Sinfonietta — Emil Viklický & George Mraz (2013)
• In Holomóc Town — Emil Viklický & George Mraz (2013)

Sources

• EN : Duško Gojković

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