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}

Polish prog-blues legend at Vagon & other treats of the week

Polish, or actually Polish / Hungarian trio SBB (Józef Skrzek - keyboards, bass, vocals, Apostolis Anthimos - guitars, Gábor Neméth - drums) is paying at Vagon club on April 27th.

Fanfán Tulipán

On Thursday 28th, there is another premium evening of Mladí ladí jazz at Jazz Dock with quartet of Hungarian singer THEA SOTi, Czech trio LESNí ZVĚŘ and Slovak AMC TRiO with Italian guitarist RUGGERO ROBiN as guest, public recording of Euroradio Jazz Session 2o1o-2o11 with FANFÁN TULIPÁN (winner of last year's Mladí ladí jazz contest) and Big Band of Jaroslav Ježek Conservatory under direction of Jan Hála (his fusion band HOT LiNE recently released new album Story Telling in radically renewed line-up on Arta Records) at Studio A of Czech Radio in Karlín and again spontaneous music trio TELLEMARKK at V podkroví gallery during closing evening of exhibition Flora by Rastr art group.

On Friday, April 29, another improvising unit ORLOJ SNiVCŮ (The Horologe of Dreamers) will play at Rybanaruby club. Line-up will be Milli Janatková - voice & percussion, Agnes Kutas - violin & voice, Michael Delia - mbiras, voice, percussion & horologe, Jaroslav Kořán - horologe of dreamers, percussion & sound mix. You can find some free mp3 on their website.

On Sunday, May 1st, four Czech cinemas will provide real-time transmission of JAMiE COLLUM concert from Cheltenham Jazz Festival in England.

Jazz Meets World series announced new exciting concert for May 7th - FREE FORM FUNKY FREQS, comprised of Living Colour guitarist Vernon Reid with eccentric bass guitar player Jamalaadeen Tacuma (of Ornette Coleman's Prime Time) and drummer Calvin Weston at Jazz Time. Flamenco trio of Spanish pianist DORANTES will play previous evening, May 6th at Divadlo U hasičů.

Neigbourhood blog article of intersest > FRGK - Soft Machine: Sweet Music - Live & Rare 1966-69. [warning: some of the live tracks are sounding very poorly, but others are excellent, as they are taken from official releases]

SOFT MACHiNE (LEGACY) will play in Lucerna Music Bar on May 12th as part of AghaRTA Prague Jazz Festival, in which nearest concert is RiCHARD BONA GROUP at Hybernia Theatre on May 4th.

And last but not least, another neighbour blog Prague Jazz started working properly again after some time of silence.