Joe KučEra
Biography
Joe Kučera (born Josef Kučera; 8 July 1943) is a Czech jazz saxophonist and flautist. He was born in Prague in Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia (now the Czech Republic). He began playing clarinet at age of seventeen and later changed his instrument to saxophone and flute. Since 1967, he played with Michal Prokop's band Framus Five and two years after, he emigrated to Austria with fellow jazz musician Sammy Vomáčka. Later he went to Berlin. He worked with many musicians, such as Jackie Leven, Werner Lämmerhirt and many others. He founded jazz festival Jazz Meeting Berlin in 1997.
Bio from Wikipedia
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Credited work
65 releases · 16 albums · active 1973–2022
- Performance · 109
- Other credits · 7
- Production · 2
Studios: Mayfair Studios · Acoustic Studio, Berlin · Studio Budíkov · Acoustic Tonstudio Berlin
Frequent collaborators
- Lydie Auvray
- John St. Field
- Pannach
- Saxophone Joe & Friends
- Framus Five
- Spinning Motion
- Marta Kubišová
- Pete Wyoming Bender