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Davor Kajfes
4+ albums
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Davor Kajfes - pianist composer, and teacher-born 1934 in Zagreb, Croatia. Graduated from the city’s Academy of Music in 1964, but his professional playing experience dates back to 1957, when he began performing with the Zagreb Radio-TV Big Band. While with the big band, he composed for the worldly known Zagreb Film Company and various TV shows. 1959 - he joined the Zagreb Jazz Quartet and quickly after became its musical leader. The period that followed he toured with the quartet in Europe and the USSR. 1962 another European tour with the "American Folk-Blues Festival" as Helen Humes's accompanist and in 1997 he performed at the Monterey Jazz Festival. Since 1967 Davor lives and works in Stockholm, Sweden. Played and recorded with among others with: Art Farmer, Buck Clayton, Csaba Deseö, Big Joe Turner, T-Bone Walker, Albert Mangelsdorff, Alice Babs, Svend Asmussen, Red Mitchell. His latest CD "Mirrors" was released on the Gason label, 2007. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
