Miro Alduk (Al Duke) was born 1970 in Split, Croatia. Started playing guitar as 10 year old kid and even at early age show interest to be professional musician, which he become at age 16.
Following four years he played with various local cover bands gaining important stage and studio experience. In year 1990 he joined band “Aspalathos Brass” which was at that period regarded as best cover band in area, and played with them for full decade following many popular stars at gigs and tours as far as Australia, America, Canada, New Zeland and whole Europe. Some period from year 2000 to 2003 Miro played on cruise boats in Finland, Sweden and Russia.
When returned from cruises to Split, Miro founded jazz-blues-rock acoustic trio called “Acoustic Bang” with percussionist and singer Jasenko Trokovic and double bass player Zvonimir Matic. Band had many performances and gigs at clubs following few years.
Being big jazz-fusion enthusiast Miro 2007 founded WAVEFORM with drummer Jan Ivelic. Other band members at that time where Ivan Bozicevic at keyboards, Neno Miskec at bass, and Drazen Bogdanovic at sax. At 2008 band recorded debut album for Aquarius Records. Miro is author of complete album material, while Jan Ivelic is co-author of two songs.
Afther that band performed at many Jazz festivals ( see list at our Gigs / Concerts page) Soon after Neno Miskec leave band and was replaced by young bass prodrigi Ante Jurinovic. As sax player Drazen Bogdanovic only periodicaly played at concerts, band gained present form as qurtet.
Parelel with jazz fusion Miro 2009 formed pop-band GALERIA and is author of complete material on their debut album released 2011 for Croatia Records.
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Miro Alduk (Al Duke) je rođen u Splitu 1970 godine .Gitaru počinje svirati sa 10 godina, i već nakon nekoliko godina vježbanja kao samouk gitarist pokazuje interes za profesionalno bavljenje glazbom te sa nepunih 16 godina postaje profesionalac.
Do 1990-te svira sa lokalnim bandovima na plesnjacima i po hotelima a tada se pridružuje iskusnom bandu “Aspalathos Brass” koji u to vrijeme kotira kao najbolji cover band te sa njima provodi slijedećih 10 godina kao prateći band poznatim pop izvođačima.U tom periodu je odsvirao nekoliko svjetskih turneja za naše ljude u inozemstvu (Australija, Amerika, Kanada, Novi zeland…).
Između 2000-2003 svira na kruzerima (Finska, Švedska, Rusija) a po povratku 2004 osniva “Acoustic Bang” blues-jazz-rock akustični trio skupa sa Jasenkom Trokovićem-vocal, percussion i Zvonimirom Matićem-acoustic bass te sa njima bilježi brojne nastupe po klubovima.
Kao veliki jazz-fusion entuzijast 2007 osniva skupa sa Janom Ivelićem WAVEFORM band koji u rekordnom roku ulazi u studio te u postavi Miro Alduk – guitars, Jan Ivelić – Drums, Ivan Božičević – keyboards, Neno Miškec – bass, Dražen bogdanović – sax snima autorski prvijenac za poznatu izdavačku kuću Aquarius records koji izlazi 2008g. Alduk je ujedno skladatelj kompletnog materijala Waveforma uz Ivelića koji je koautor na 2 pjesme. Nakon toga band bilježi brojne nastupe po Jazz festivalima (Split, Makarska, Bale, Šibenik, Samobor, Lepoglava, Lastovo…) i klubovima.
Ubrzo nakon toga basist Neno Miškec odlazi iz banda a priključuje im se vanserijski mladi basist Ante Jurinović a Dražen Bogdanović samo povremeno nastupa tako da band nastavlja kao kvartet. U tom periodu između ostalog Alduk svira i kao gitarist u raznim orkestrima: Runjićeve večeri – 2009, 2010, 2011, 2014,2015 – Splitski festival – 2010, 2011, 2012, 2015,2016,2017,2018 – Tribute to Dino Dvornik – 2010 (skupa sa Jeff Lorberom i Jeff Golubom) – Otvaranje Azijskih igara-Oman-2011 (orkestar Alana Bjelinskog), Orkestar dodjele nagrade PORIN 2018
Uz bavljenje jazz-fusion glazbom Alduk 2009 osniva autorski pop band GALERIA te se kao autor kompletnog materijala pojavljuje i u ulozi glavnog vokala na 6 skladbi. Band ubrzo ulazi u studio i snima album “Izgubljena rič” koji 2011 izlazi u nakladi Croatia Recordsa. Na albumu između ostalih gostuju legende Hrvatske estrade Oliver Dragojević i Tedi Spalato koji su sa Aldukom otpjevali uspješne duete. 2012-te WAVEFORM je snimio novi autorski materijal koji će izaći u nakladi Croatia Recordsa do ljeta 2013.