Richard Bona, Dumková & Bárta, Free Form Funky Freqs, Free Fest Troja... another busy week

AghaRTA Prague Jazz Festival = May 4th, 11th, 12th & 23rd

RiCHRAD BONA BAND @ Hybernia theatre, 8PM, ViCTOR VOOTEN & J.D.BLAiR "2 Minds – 1 Groove", SOFT MACHiNE LEGACY, JACK DeJOHNETTE GROUP @ Lucerna Music Bar ...

Mladí ladí jazz = Thursday, May 5th 
Fourth and last evening of spring series with LACO DECZi & CELLULA NEW YORK, HARMCORE and announcement of this year's contest winner @ Divadlo Na prádle, 8PM

Jazz Meets World = May 6th & 7th 
DORANTES TRiO @ Divadlo U hasičů, FREE FORM FUNKY FREQS (Vernon Reid, Jamalaaden Tacuma & Calvin Weston) @ Jazz Time

rybanaruby.net = Friday, May 6th

ZUZANA DUMKOVÁ & MARCEL BÁRTA duo (vocals, guitar, saxes, percussion). Singer, songwriter and guitarist Zuzana works in various settings, her debut album Balance was released in 2oo7 on Amplión Records. Marcel is member of Vertigo, Muff, Face of the Bass, Tomáš Hobzek Quartet or DoMa Ensemble, whose debut album on Polí5 label will be launched at Jazz Dock on May 20th. 

FREE FEST TROJA 2o11 = Saturday, May 7th, 2PM - 11PM

face of the bass:
michal nejtek, jaromír honzák, marcel bárta, roman vícha

Fourh annual volume of free festival at Vltava riverside invites nu jazz / fusion & funk / dance acts: FACE OF THE BASS quartet, 12-headed TOP DREAM COMPANY, Hi-Fi & Ultra Minimal Ballet, MADFiNGER, DJ MACEO and DJ MiKULÁŠ's jam band including rapper MC Hi-Def from New York and great double bass player Petr Tichý. Final performance of the evening will bring specially assembled ELECTRiC JAM BAND with DJ R.Mutt, verstaile saxophone / trumpet player Bharata Rajnošek and young talented guitarist Tomáš Fuchs among others. Artist's links and actual samples are on festival website. Due to weather prognosis for weekend, we can meditate or just imagining that we will have enough sun and no rainclouds on Saturday :7)

Jazz Dock = every night
RUS NERWiCH QUARTET @ May 5th, POOGiE BELL BAND @ 7th, ONDŘEJ ŠTVERÁČEK QUARTET @ 8th ... 

Strings of Autumn = autumn 2o11: CHARLES LLOYD QUARTET, AViSHAi COHEN TRiO, ROBERT GLASPER and more.

+plus+ found item od GREAT jAZZ:

ERiK TRUFFAZ - In Between (Blue Note 2o1o)
Erik Truffaz - trumpet, vocals; Marcello Giuliani - double bass, bass guitar, Marc Erbetta - drums, vocals; Benoit Corboz - Fender Rhodes, Hammond organ, piano; Sophie Hunger - vocals on Let Me Go! and Dirge.

Tímto albem Erik znovu dokazuje, že je vůdčí osobností francouzského jazzu 21. století. Další milník v cestě, značené tituly Bending New Corners a The Walk Of The Giant Turtle.

With this album, Erik demonstrates again that he is leading figure in French jazz of 21st Century. Another milestone in the path, marked by titles Bending New Corners and The Walk Of The Giant Turtle.

{bought it from artist shop, or don't pay the stealers at least}

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

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...