"Vuckovich in Concert” • A Special Music Event at Gualala Arts Saturday, November 19 With Guests Buca Necak and Chris Doering
Gualala Arts and Fred Adler present “Vuckovich in Concert”, Saturday, November 19, 4:00pm at Gualala Arts’ Coleman Hall. Larry Vuckovich will be accompanied by Buca Necak on acoustic bass. In addition, special guest guitarist Chris Doering will join Vuckovich and Necak for a few numbers. Advance tickets are $29, $5 more the day of and are available at Gualala Arts, Dolphin Gallery and at EventBrite.com.
Larry Vuckovich 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 in 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”.
Although Vuckovich has appeared at Gualala Arts a number of times, he usually performs as part of an ensemble with multiple musicians, both instrumentalists and vocalists. As described by co-producer Fred Adler, “Larry Vuckovich is a formidable and swinging soloist and also an informative and entertaining jazz historian. He will entertain with his favorite composers and compositions, plus the audience will be treated to a demonstration of varying tempos, piano styles, and rhythms, drawing from his seven decades of experience of performing with a veritable ‘who’s who’ of jazz masters throughout the globe."
A special treat will be guitarist, and coastal resident, Chris Doering, sitting in with Vuckovich on two numbers, including one tune by Thelonious Monk (“Pannonica”). Yugoslavian-born acoustic bassist, Buca Necak, will accompany Vuckovich during the second part of the concert.
According to Jazz Times, Vuckovich ”is a pianist whose evocative touch and poetic (but unsentimental) sensibility convey the wisdom of deep musical life experience”. Tickets are available now for this unique concert event.
