ヘルシンキ・フィルハーモニー管弦楽団
Kukko represented YLE (Finnish broadcasting company) in the EBU Big Band in Sarajevo (1976) and participated in many radio and festival big bands which anticipated the UMO Big Band. In the early 1970s, Kukko worked as a studio-musician and performed as a freelancer with the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra (RSO), and the Finnish National Opera.