Writing, composing and arranging for bigbands is for Bora Rokovic the ideal occuoation. Born 1925 in Yugoslavia. And although his music studies in Belgrade forced him to follow a classical route, jazz was in fact the be-all and end-all for him. he came to Germany in 1954, where Kurt Edelhagen engaged him as arranger in 1957. The LP "Ultra Marine", recorded in 1971 in Villingen / MPS Studio, with Peter Trunk on Bass and Tony Inzalaco on drums, became a collectors item. On "J.B.W.", a true masterpiece of abstract jazz, the trio suceeds over 7 minutes in permanently ratcheting up the tension. DISCOGRAPHY (Selection) 1961 V.A. - "2nd YUGOSLAVIAN JAZZ FESTIVAL - BLED 1961" (Jugoton) 1961 "III SASTANAK U STUDIJU" (RTB) 1964 DIE TOTE VON BEVERLY HILLS () 1966 CARL DREWO & THE CLARKE-BOLAND BIG BAND - "SWING, WALTZ, SWING" (Philips) 1968 KNEF CONCERT (Decca) 1971 SOUNDTRACK "ZOFF" 1972 BORA ROKOVIC - "ULTRA NATIVE" (MPS) 1974 V.A. - "15th INTERNATIONAL JAZZ FESTIVAL LJUBLJANA 74" (Jugoton) 1977 YU JAZZ ALL STARS 1977- "4 LICA JAZZA" (Jugoton) 1977 STAN GETZ AND THE BIG BAND OF EUROPE (Vantage) 1978 JAZZ ORKESTAR RADIO TELEVIZIJE BEOGRAD - "1948-1978" (RTB) 1979 DUSKO GOJKOVIC - "TRUMPETS & RHYTHM UNIT" (RTB) 1980 BORA ROKOVIC-"NONA" (RTB) 1984 PETER HERBOLZHEIMER & WDR BIG BAND - "HARLEM STORY" (Koala) 1985 PETER HERBOLZHEIMER RHYTHM COMBINATION & BRASS - "MORE BOP" (Koala) 1991 STAN GETZ - "JAZZ COLLECTORS EDITION" (Laserlight) 1992 DUSKO GOJKOVIC - "BALKAN BLUE" (Enja) 2000 CATERINA VALENTE - KURT WEILL - AMERICAN SONGS (Bear Family) 2001 V.A. YU JAZZ FEST VALJEVO VOLUME II (Bear Family) 2001 JEAN-LUC PONTY - "WITH KURT EDELHAGEN & HIS ORCHESTRA" (Cleopatra) 2002 DUSKO GOJKOVIC - "PORTRAIT" (Enja) Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.