Inner City, and Palo Alto. Vuckovich worked for five years in New York City, where he performed at the Village Vanguard, Blue Note Jazz Club, Bradley's Zinno, West End, and Hanratty's, working with Al Cohn, Curtis Fuller, Tom Harrell, Billy Higgins, Milt Hinton, Mel Lewis, Red Mitchell, Michael Moore, and Cecil Payne. He led bands that included Walter Booker, Joshua Breakstone, Dennis Irwin, Victor Lewis, and Harvie S. He returned to San Francisco for a long-term engagement from 1990 to 1997 as house pianist and music director of Club 36 at the Grand Hyatt Hotel. He presented several West Coast Jazz Festival performances and served as music director of the Napa Valley Jazz Festival for six years. He has performed at jazz festivals in San Francisco, Monterey and San Jose, Aspen/Sonoma Jazz Festival and the Palo Alto Jazz Alliance, as well as Yoshi's, Jazz at Pearl's, Herbst Theater, Bach Beach House, Napa Valley Opera House, Copia, and European festivals at La Teste de Buch (France), Silda (Norway), Basel (Switzerland), Belgrade (Serbia), Nisville (Serbia), Bankiya and Bansko (Bulgaria). He performed in New York at Lincoln Center's Dizzy's Club Coca Cola and was Marian McPartland's guest on her NPR program Piano Jazz. Other performances include tours with Hadley Caliman, Julian Priester, John Heard, and Eddie Marshall. With the Napa Valley Jazz Society Vuckovich presented a tribute to Dexter Gordon. He reunited with Big Black after playing alongside him in the Jon Hendricks band during the 1960s. His teaching and clinical projects include a solo piano format of the history of jazz piano. In December of 2018 he received the Buddy Montgomery Jazz Legacy award Jazz Pioneer Award in 2018. He was named a "Jazz Legend" at the Fillmore Jazz Heritage Center in San Francisco. Larry Vuckovich Day, December 8, was proclaimed in San Francisco on his birthday. Vuckovich received a B.A. in music at San Francisco State University, where he studied classical piano. Discography As leader Blue Balkan (Inner City, 1980) City Sounds, Village Voices (Palo Alto, 1982) Cast Your Fate (Palo Alto, 1984) Blues for Red (Hothouse, 1985) Tres Palabras (Concord Jazz, 1990) The Good Old Days Are Right Now (Cable Car, 1992) Deja Vuk (Oglio, 1999) Young at Heart (Tetrachord Music, 2000) Street Scene (Tetrachord Music, 2006) Somethin' Special (Tetrachord Music, 2011) A Pair of Pianos (Quicksilver, 2013) As sideman Hadley Caliman, Hadley Caliman (Mainstream, 1971) Cal Collins, Blues On