Jazz Fest Brno 2o11 is near

10th international jazz festival will take place at various venues in Brno from March 29 to April 21. Opening concert of BOBBY McFERRIN will be broadcasted live by Czech Radio 3 - Vltava - tune in here from 7pm CET.



Among other performers are MICHAEL FORMANEK QUARTET, new band by outstanding American double bass player and composer with Tim Berne (alto sax), Craig Taborn (piano) and Gerald Cleaver (drums), who released their ECM debut album The Rub And Spare Change previous year (concert on April 13), Jaromír Honzák's nu jazz quartet FACE OF THE BASS, electro-acoustic sextet LIMBO - you can download their first two acoustic albums here (both on April 15), Swedish THE STONER with guest guitar player DAVID DORŮŽKA (April 16), quintet of fantastic Moravian singer and cymabalom player ZUZANA LAPČÍKOVÁ (April 18), trio of awarded double bass player TOMÁŠ LIŠKA with guitarist David Dorůžka and Italian bandoneon player Danielle Di Bonaventura, VERTIGO QUINTET & DOROTA BAROVÁ (both on April 19) or trio of noted American drummer DAN WEISS with Jacob Sacks (piano) and Thomas Morgan (double bass), and more. All in all, highly inspiring gathering of international and Czechoslovak jazz acts.



www.jazzfestbrno.cz

Charlie Hunter & Scott Amendola at Jazz Dock

Excellent American 8-string guitar player CHARLIE HUNTER with drummer SCOTT AMENDOLA are playing two nights at Jazz Dock on March 26 & 27 from 10PM. First concert on Saturday 26 is following after 7PM performance of JIŘÍ ŠIMEK TRIO, line up of talented jazz guitar player with rocky edge, who is also member of bands Muff, NUO, S.O.I.L. or electric version of Limbo. His bandmates are Jan Jakubec on bass guitar and drummer Daniel Šoltis, mainly known from great VertigoQuintet (they are actually preparing their fourth album), from Project Z with guitarist Petr Zelenka and reed player Marcel Bárta (their album with guesting Spanish flutist Rodrigo Parejo is also on the way) or Czech quartet of Dutch saxophone player Cyrille Oswald.



Among future concerts at Jazz Dock is Norweigian quartet FRIENDS & NEIGHBORS with Swedish pianist OSCAR GRÖNBERG as guest on March 31.

Chick Corea & Gary Burton in Prague

Kdyby si oba protagonisté netrpělivě očekávaného sobotního koncertu s sebou na pódium vzali všechna svá hudební ocenění, sami už by se tam těžko vešli. A těsno by tam bylo i v případě, že by se omezili jen na ta nejprestižnější. Posuďte sami – Corea během své hudební kariéry proměnil v prestižní cenu Grammy 15 z celkových 51 nominací, Burton se jejím laureátem stal šestkrát z celkového počtu 15 nominací.

Souhru jazzových mistrů piana a vibrafonu si můžete vychutnat v sobotu 26. března 2011 od 20 hodin v Kongresovém centru v Praze. Vstupenky jsou stále k dostání v pobočkách sítě Ticketpro (www.ticketpro.cz), jejich cena začíná již na 900 korunách – nejdražší vstupenky v 1. kategorii jsou za 1 880 Kč. Další info na www.brnokoncert.cz.

Chick Corea & Gary Burton discography on eMusic.com

Jaga Jazzist returns to Prague

March 24, Lucerna Music Bar, 20:00 

eJazz.cz article in Czech with google translate toolbar ;D

www.jagajazzist.com

2 new nu-jazz albums from czech

SATO-SAN TO: Salep (Indies Scope 2o1o)
 

first Sato-San To album Skinny (self released 2oo8) free download here
actual interview on eJazz.cz

www.myspace.com/satosantocz

FACE OF THE BASS (Animal Music 2o11)


Jaromír Honzák - bass
Marcel Bárta - bass clarinet, saxes
Michal Nejtek & Beata Hlavenková - piano, keyboards
Roman Vícha - drums

jaromirhonzak.com

Both albums will be launched at Jazz Dock, in between there are two shows of LARRY GOLDINGS / HARRY ALLEN QUARTET on March 11 & 12. New concerts are announced in Jazz Meets World Series, including VIJAY IYER - PRASANA - NITIN MITTA trio (April 16), RALPH ALESSI & ANDY MILNE duo (April 27) and AVRAM FEFER - ERIC REVIS - CHAD TAYLOR trio (May 28). And don't forget CHICK COREA & GARY BURTON duo in Prague Cogress Centre on March 26! Busy spring...