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He then enrolled at Berklee College of Music, where he studied composition and arranging.
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Jaroslav Jakubovic
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Born in Czechoslovakia, Jakubovič emigrated to Israel, via Switzerland in 1968, as a result of the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia. Jakubovic was particularly active as a session musician in New York in the 1970s and worked with such prominent musicians as Paul Simon, The Jackson 5, Bette Midler, Ray Charles, Lionel Hampton and Buddy Rich. He returned briefly to the Czechoslovakian Republic in 1998, at the invitation of President Havel, but returned properly only in 2009 to play at the Usti International Jazz and Blues Festival.
In 1985 he recorded the instrumental album Waiting Foreign Messiah featuring jazz adaptations of the songs of Shalom Hanoch.
The album was re-issued in 2009. In 2000 he moved back to New York and established a jazz-folk ensemble playing original compositions and covers of well-known songs.
His 2009 album Coincidence was recorded with such well-known jazz musicians as Randy Brecker and Adam Nussbaum. In February 2015 Jakubovič performED the world premier of Sara and Avraham, his concerto for saxophone, piano and symphony orchestra, with the Prague Symphony Orchestra at the Smetana Hall in Prague.
The programme for the concert, which was held under the auspices of Gary Koren, Ambassador of Israel in the Czechoslovakian Republic, also included Jakubovič"s variations on Porgy and Bess by George Gershwin, and featured Czechoslovakian pianist Emil Viklický and conductor Elli Jaffe.
