Who is Rale Micic?
Rale Mićić (Serbian Cyrillic: Рале Mићић; born October 9, 1975) is a Serbian jazz guitarist and composer. Micic moved to United States in 1995 after receiving a scholarship from the Berklee College of Music, where he studied with George Garzone, John Thomas, and Bob Brookmeyer. It was also by that time that Mick Goodrick, became his mentor. In 2000, Micic moved to New York City. His debut album, Bridges (CTA, 2003), mixed jazz with Balkan music. His second album, Serbia, featured jazz trumpeter Tom Harrell. In 2010 Micic started a guitar duo series called Guitar x2. During the next decade, many prominent jazz guitarist performed as a part of the duo series, including Peter Bernstein, Gene Bertoncini, Ed Cherry, Jack Wilkins, Lage Lund, Mike Moreno, and many more.
