Gut studied jazz trumpet at the Swiss Jazz School in
Bern, Switzerland, and at the
Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts. As a conductor, he won first place in the first Austrian Big Band Competition. He is one of the most famous jazz brass players from Serbia, others being
Duško Gojković and
Milivoje Marković. He was a member of the
Lionel Hampton All Stars for two years, one of two white players at the time in that band. He made international tours, performances and recordings with
Clark Terry, Wild Bill Davis, Curtis Fuller, Ed Thigpen, Benny Bailey,
Horace Parlan, Mel Lewis, Johhny Griffin, Jimmy Heath, James Moody, Clifford Jordan, Ernie Willkins, Snooky Young, Joe Newman, Wallace Davenport, Jon Faddis, Nicholas Payton, Frank Wess, Alvin Queen, Sal Nistico, Vince Benedetti, Kenny Washington, Charlie Antolini and
Dusko Gojkovic. He is a member of the faculty at the Graz Institut for Jazz since 1984 and a guest professor at the jazz department of Belgrade Music Academy. -Workshops and masterclasses at numerous universities around the world: Royal Academy Den Haag, Rotterdam Conservatory, New School NYC, USA, University of Arkansas UAPB, Pine Bluff, UNH Durham University, New Hampshire, USA, Paris Conservatory, Amsterdam Jazz Academy, the Netherlands. -Appeared as a member of the group Trumpet Jazz Summit - 1999 in Marsiac, France - with Clark Terry, Benny Bailey, Jon Faddis, Wynton Marsalis, Terrell Stafford, Roy Hargrove and Nicholas Payton. == Discography ==