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Larry Vuckovich Septet: Swing Era Hits!

Larry Vuckovich brings the music of the Swing Era to the Tucker Farm Center featuring outstanding vocalist Jackie Ryan. The musicians in this ensemble are world-class players that have toured and performed with premier bands worldwide. The septet includes clarinetist/saxophonist Noel Jukes, pianist Larry Vuckovich, guitarist Jeff Massanari, vibist Tommy Kesecker, bassist Jeff Chambers and drummer Harold Jones.

Larry Vuckovich (larryvuckovich.com) has won acclaim from critics and jazz audiences for his deeply imaginative style and repertoire heard at prestigious North American and European jazz clubs, concert halls and festivals. He is equally at home in world music/classically influenced modal jazz as he is with hard-swinging bebop, post-bop, contemporary jazz, and down-home blues. The New York Times notes that his unique outlook and collection of influences "set him apart from most pianists who are heard regularly in New York". The Village Voice comments on his "book of piano gems that will keep you guessing." The Toronto Globe and Mail calls him "a musician who sits apart from the rest by virtue...of his taste for both the exotic and the exquisite."

Cited by piano legend Barry Harris as "one of the premier West Coast pianists, Mr. Vuckovich brought his Jazz-Latin Trio/Quartet, featured on his two current piano trio/quartet CDs, to Lincoln Center's Dizzy's Club in New York on a recent East Coast tour. On the same tour, he performed with Marian McParhland on her Piano Jazz show, broadcast to national and global NPR affiliates.