Blue Balkan - Then & Now
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Other albums by Larry Vuckovich
Larry Vuckovich
22/6/2002
Review
- # Track Artist Length
- 1 Serbo Samba (new original: Larry Vuckovich's Balkan-influenced melody set to a samba rhythm) Larry Vuckovich 5:51
- 2 Blue Balkan (reissue: Larry Vuckovich original mixes Balkan folk with African-American music that expresses a Bartokian harmonic movement.) Larry Vuckovich 8:41
- 3 Suite Sanna (new: Larry Vuckovich original mix of bebop, Latin, flamenco and Balkan music written for his wife, producer Sanna Craig.) Larry Vuckovich 8:40
- 4 Belgrade Blues (reissue: Larry Vuckovich original minor blues over Middle Eastern scales and motifs recalls Horace Silver's "Senor Blues.") Larry Vuckovich 6:51
- 5 After Hours (reissue: inspired by Ray Bryant's version, Larry Vuckovich played it nightly in Jon Hendricks' "Evolution of the Blues" show.) Larry Vuckovich 4:8
- 6 Larry's Dance (reissue: Larry Vuckovich's original is a Balkan-influenced tune of exciting 7/8 and 4/4 multi-rhythms.) Larry Vuckovich 6:7
- 7 Loving Linda (reissue: a slow bossa with descending changes and ascending melody that Larry Vuckovich wrote for his first wife Linda Weaver.) Larry Vuckovich 5:11
- 8 Adriatic Nights (new: Larry Vuckovich's original "Mediterranean Nights" expanded to a sextet projecting a strong tango rhythm.) Larry Vuckovich 6:3
- 9 Motherless Child/ O Javore (Serbian folk song juxtaposed with an African-American gospel lament to show a similar minor mode.) Larry Vuckovich 3:56
- 10 Changes (reissue: Larry Vuckovich's sequence of chord changes includes a modal section which shifts from one tonality to another.) Larry Vuckovich 4:29
- 11 In Your Own Sweet Way (reminiscent of Tommy Flanagan-Wes Montgomery recording.) Larry Vuckovich 6:15
- 12 Mediterranean Nights (reissue: Larry Vuckovich's original trio version of his Argentine tango piece.) Larry Vuckovich 3:53
