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David Lukacs

David Lukacs :Clarinet/Saxophone

About Me

Dutch clarinet and sax-player David Lukacs was born in Breda 1978. Having his fathers recordcollection as an inspiration ,it wasn't a big surprise he fell in love with jazzmusic. This resulted in a fulltime study at "The Hague Royal Concervatory"with Amarican reed virtuoso John Ruocco. In 1998 David Lukacs won the "Kobe Jazz Award" and toured in Japan as a solist in 1998 and 1999 with international all-star groups featuring:Bill Berry,Benny Powell and Tom Baker. David did concerts ,television and radio shows in Europe and Asia with different groups and played with musicians like:Dan Barret,Al Gallodoro,Eji Kitamura,Bob Barnard,Madeline Bell,John Goldsby and many,many more..... At the moment he's working with groups like:The Jimmie Lunceford Legacy Orchestra, 4BEAT6,The Beau Hunks and Kansas City After Dark. As a teacher David Lukacs is active at the Jazz Workshop in Lenk,Switserland. A new young face in the international jazz-scene whose playing and sound reminds the styles of jazzlegends like Lester Young, Stan Getz and Benny Goodman, ....but most of all you hear David!
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Member Since: 8/6/2007
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Influences: Lester Young ,Louis Armstrong,Ray Charles,Paul Gonsalves,The singing Detective,Artie Shaw,Stan Getz,Duke Ellington,Ruud Brink,Monty Python,Stan Hasselgard, Tom Baker,Sonny Rollins,Barney Bigard,Al and Zoot,Benny Goodman,Django Reinhardt,Lucky Thompson,Maurice Ravel,Bix Beiderbecke,Carlos Jobim,Fats Waller,Gilbert O'Sullivan,Art Pepper,Johannes Sebastiaan Bach,Jimmie Noone,Elton John,Wladimir Horowitz,Yusef Lateef,Don Murray,Nat King Cole,Clifford Brown,Coleman Hawkins,Jiskefet,John Ruocco,Don Byas,Gandalf"The Grey",Karl Mezra,Buddy de Franco,Art Tatum,Warn Marsh,Charlie Parker ,Ernie on trumpet,Jimmie Hamilton,Ben Webster,Marcello Mastroiani,Benny Carter, Billie Holiday,Hoagy Carmichael,etc........
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Record Label: unsigned
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New Clip Final Exam David Lukacs

I added a new clip to my space! It was taken at my final exam Jazz Clarinet at The Royal Concervatory The Hague on the 11th of june 2007 at 11.00 in the morning..!!!! But with a rhythm section li...
Posted by David Lukacs on Sun, 20 Jan 2008 03:49:00 PST