Joe Kučera
Joe Kučera is a Czech jazz saxophonist and flautist.
He was born in Prague in Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. 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.
Discography
As leader
- Balance
- Dillema
- ''Memories/Looking Back''
As sideman
;With Jesse Ballard- Livin' Like Fire
- Jesse Ballard's Paradise Island Band
- Talkin' to the Rain
- Constantly in View
- Cut It All Loose
- Keine Angst
- Journey to Mandalonia
- Swindia
- No Identity
- Solaris
- White Spots
- Crossroads
- SaitenZauber
- Heimspiel
- Control
- Great Songs from Eternal Bars
;With Michal Prokop
- ''Blues in Soul + 9x Bonus''