Poetic Filharmony

www.poetic.cx

Roman Hampacher (guitar), Roman Džačár (bassguitar), Martin Cikánek (minimoog voyager), Jan Červenka (drums)

Poetic Filharmony’s music is characterised mainly by wild improvization unrestrained by form, combined with thought-out compositional techniques partly inspired by contemporary classical music (polyrythmic and polytonal forms, musical collage, minimal music, aleatorics). At the base, there is a relentlessly beating rhythm, originating both from jazz-rock classics and modern dance styles, surrounded by a solid bigbeat guitar sound. An infinite diversity of sounds from the moog’s palette attack from all sides, ranging from classical leads and basses through various modulations and offshoots to utterly abstract and hardly describable sonic creations. Poetic Filharmony like to experiment and search for sounds yet unheard. Clear formalist curtness is as important for them as unstoppably rolling rough sound animality. Poetic Filharmony see their role model in such bands as Tribal Tech, Joe Zawinul Syndicate, late Miles Davis, Jojo Mayer or Mahavishnu .

Filip Gondolán Session Band

www.filipgondolan.com

Extraordinary multi-genre vocalist with his session band.

jazz, funk, latin & more

musicians / hudebníci

Tomáš Jochmann: piano Lukáš Kytnar: bass

Tomáš Hobzek: drums

Lukáš Martinek Private Earthquake

www.lukemartin.cz

Jazz-Blues-Rock-Fusion

lead vocal + el.guitar, bass guitar, drums

Very talented young guitarist fronting his own band and performing the hits of J.J. Cale, B.B. King and Jimi Hendrix, everything from 12 bar to modern blues.

         BIG FUN BLUES BAND and Petra Studená

www.bigfun.wz.cz

Powerfull groove, crowling soul, diggin´ blues and somehow completely different singer.Would you like to know about this band? Come and have some fun. Experience is vital :-)

HANELLE  BLUE´S BAND

www.myspace.com/hankarihova

Hanelle Blue (aka Hanka Rihova) has been singing blues since 2002 when she started with the youngest blues band in the Czech Republic of that time called Buddy Wonders. After 4 months of performing she gained a "Best vocal" prize on "Noc Bluesowa 2002" festival in Rawa Mazowiecka, Poland. After

a break-up of Buddy Wonders she joined RT & The Misfits, founded by blues guitarists Marcel Flemr and Rene Trossman, toured around Czech, Slovakia, Hungary and Austria. In 2003 she co-founded another blues band Roadcasters.

She is a regular guest of Marcel Flemr Band. Hanelle Blue's Band plays modern dynamic electric blues. The band interprets songs from Blues Greats such as Junior Wells, B.B.King, Robert Johnson, Etta James, Koko Taylor, etc. (of course in her own particular way..).

Marcel Flemr Band

www.marcelflemr.com

Marcel Flemr Band was established in October 2006 by extraordinary young guitarist and singer Marcel Flemr. Blues project of the new ingoing generation of young bluesmen who honour the roots of electric blues heritage. Their style is inspired by the masters of the electric guitar such as T-Bone Walker, Lowell Fulson, Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, Earl Hooker, Hubert Sumlin, Magic Sam, B.B.King but is also inspired by a little more modern sound (Albert Collins, Robert Cray, Jimmie Vaughan etc.). The band # consisting of experienced musicians goes beyond the blues revivals. Marcel Flemr Band with its original expression, strong blues feeling and authentic sound will carry you thru to the times when it all started....

“Marcel Flemr belongs to the most convincing stars of the young czech blues generation”

Los Quemados

www.losquemados.cz

Quartet" tenor sax, keyboard, bassguitar, drums.

This is a new band which plays in a fusion style, i.e. a sharp mixture of jazz with the funk, latino, afro, and bop elements.

Saxophone player: Jakub Dolezal

He graduated from the Jaroslav Jezek Conservatory of Music. His first significant engagement was with the Jan Korinek and Groove jazz formation, which accompanied various American blues singers (L. Thompson, E. Davis, Ch. Sawyer, S. Lewis etc.). He also played with the pop-funk group call Zaha, Janis Joplin, Revival, Ruchardze Band, or Bloody Mary. In 2002 he became a member of the jazz quintet called Work in Progress. Since 2005 he has been a member of the Organic Quarter band led by an organist Ondrej Pivec. In 2006 he became a member of the Benedikt band. At the present he also performs with the groups centred around a guitar player Oldrich Bartas. Jakub Dolezal also participates in the Czech production of the famous Pink Floyd recordings and collaborates with an avant-garde jazz big band Bucinatores Tentet (led by a trombone player Jan Jirucha). As a pedagogue he teaches at the Jan Hanus Art School, gives private saxophone lessons as well as the lessons of music theory and improvisation.

An excellent alternate member: Lubos Soukup

He was born in 1985 and grew up in Chrudim. Lubos Soukup has been dealing with music since his early childhood. He plays tenor, alto and soprano saxophone as well as clarinet. Since 2004 he has been studying at the Jaroslav Jezek Conservatory of Music in Prague. After one year of the study he was accepted to the Jaroslav Jezek Higher Specialised School (jazz specialisation) where he was taught by Rostislav Fras. Since October 2008 he has been studying at The Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice, Poland. He has been taught jazz by several outstanding pedagogues such as David Doruzka, Jaromir Honzak, Piotr Wojtasik, Jiri Nedoma, Miriam Bayle, Milan Svoboda etc. Soukup is a founder of the Points band. He participates in Jan Jirucha's project Bucinatores Orchestra. He is a member of the Czech-Polish quintet Inner Spaces and of the Los Quemados band. He also collaborates with Ondrej Pivec, Petr Zelenka, Milan Svoboda, Krystof Marek, Vojtech Eckert etc. Among Soukup's biggest accomplishments belongs his participation at the Jazz Festival in Monterrey, California where he performed as a member of the Prague Conservatory Jazz Orchestra. He received a special award for his own compositions at the 45th international festival Jazz upon Odra in Wroclaw, Poland.

Bass guitar player: Filip Spaleny

He graduated from the Prague Conservatory - tube specialisation and from the Jaroslav Jezek Conservatory of Music - bas guitar specialisation. He has performed or performs in the following bands, music formations or musicians: ASPM led by Jan Spaleny, Milan Svoboda's Quartet and Sextet, Kontraband, Prague Big Band, Rudolfinum Jazz Orchestra, Markus Deml, Jana Koubkova, Savle mece, Jazz Heads, Andrea Ruilova Folhina band, Chicken Soup, Petr Zeman Quintet, Marek Smaus Quartet, Gera band, Vibe Fantasy, Fabrik, and Zlababa. Her also participated in many studio project collaborations...

Keyboard player: Jan "Johny Walter" Balek

He was born in Prestice and graduated from the Jaroslav Jezek Conservatory of Music. He is a member of the following bands or music formations: T.O.P. Dream Company, Olga Skrancova & Band, The Scheuflers, Quattro Fromaggi, Jan Tengler Quartet, Felix Slovacek BigBand, JaHoDa Nastrojovy arzenal: Kurzweil SP88, Korg X50, EMU Vintage Pro.

Drummer: Ondrej Pomajsl

He was born in Chomutov and graduated from the Jaroslav Jezek Conservatory of Music. He s studying at the Jaroslav Jezek Higher Specialised School (jazz specialisation). He is a member of the following bands or music formations: Madfinger, T.O.P. Dream Company, R. Dragoun and His Angels etc. He collaborates with the leading Czech jazz musicians such as L. Smoldas or O. Pivec

Adam Tvrdý Crossover Group

www.myspace.com/adamtvrdy

"Adam Tvrdy Crossover Group" was established in autumn 2009 in Prague first as a trio and soon thereafter upsized to the quartet. The band leader is guitarist Adam Tvrdy and together with a Hammond keyboardist and vocalist Jakub Zomer creates a core of the Group. The rhythm section consists of bassist Petr Dvorsky and drummer Jan Linhart.
This project was partly started as a tribute to a great group of Hammond organ player Jack McDuff and his recordings from the 60s, which involved back then very young George Benson. Another reason to crate this band was also a great desire to play blues and styles based directly on it. It also makes a bit of a contrast to all previous years of activity, which is for Adam Tvrdy mostly modern Jazz.
The group’s sound comes from the instrumentation of an electric guitar with a Hammond organ. This sound has already proved its timelessness and the group considers its possibilities endless. Genre is set between optimistically tuned J. McDuff’s songs, and blues standards with a small admixture of Jazz. The band’s playing is very dynamic and has a large range going from absolute calm to full energetic ferocity.
The home scene of Adam Tvrdy Crossover Group has been Ungelt Jazz & Blues Club and as a trio (guitar, Hammond, percussion) also performs regularly at the Jazz Boat Kotva.
In the future, the group plans to extend its repertoire, and also to perform more outside the capital city, at festivals, etc.

Leona Milla Band

www.myspace.com/leonamilla

Her singing is full of deep emotions. Seeing Leona on stage is always an occasion - unlike a large number of other musicians, notably those who perform a deeper genre such as jazz - Leona is not afraid to communicate with the audiance, poke a joke or tell a story to introduce a song. I guess it´s often the attitude that makes all the difference. Of course, she´s also an impressive singer - hearing her life is an uplifting and stirring event without fail. So for those of you who have a chance, go see her gig, it´s well worth the time.
The band consists of keyboard player Vítek Pospíšil, bass player Lukáš Kytnar and drummer Tomáš Hobzek.

Tereza & GROOVE INN

www.myspace.com/groovein

Tereza Rajnincová - singer. She was born in Trencin. She was performing with jazz band Aurelius Q and pop formation The Haze. Two years ago She came to Prag to study singing at the jazz school, which is related with Jaroslav Jezek conservatoir

Her teacher was Jaromír Honzak. She is a student of Miriam Bayle and Hana Peckova.

Filip Spaleny - bassquitar. He is longtime renowned musican ...  (ASPM Jan Spaleny, Milan Svoboda quartet, sextet, Big Band, Los Quemados, Adam Tvrdy Crossover Group etc…)

Johny Walter Balek - keyboards. He is excellent pianist, has full of energy and plenty of ideas. (Top Dream Company, Los Quemados, Quatro Formagi, Felix Slovácek Big Band etc…)

Ondrej Pomajsl - drums. Eight cylinder engine of the band, the strong machine. (Madfinger, Jazz Efterradd, Los Quemados etc…)

Jerusalem Band

www.jerusalem.cz

The rock band Jerusalem has been active in Czech stages for twenty years already, balancing in between of Gothic and Pop.

Since the very start of the existence, band Jerusalem has been focused mainly on creating of their own songs.

For the pleasure of the visitors, the stage gigs play lists contain also well known songs of the world scene interpreters (Depeche Mode, The Cure, etc.).

Thanks to the expressive melodics, brisk energy and icommutable sound, the band Jerusalem has gained a great amount of supporters. BE READY FOR PARTY!

Blues Wave

www.blueswave.wz.cz

Group of famous prague musicians, playing in prague jazz clubs since 2004. Soul-jazz standards, funk and groove music and some originals too.

Jirí Hála - tenor sax, flute

Jirí Milota - guitar

Milan Potocek - Hammond organ, keyboards

Václav Vávra - bass

Petr Mikeš - drums

Oskar Rozsa

www.myspace.com/oskarrozsa

TUTU PUOANE 4TET

www.tutupuoane.info/home.html

 Ms Puoane has received several awards from major South African Jazz Competitions. Tutu has shared the same stage Leona got born in Hradec Králové, Czech republic. She is a soul jazz singer and a regular in a downtown jazz venues in Prague. She is a great singer with a broad range of expression.
Her singing is full of deep emotions. Seeing Leona on stage is always an occasion - unlike a large number of other musicians, notably those who perform a deeper genre such as jazz - Leona is not afraid to communicate with the audiance, poke a joke or tell a story to introduce a song. I guess it´s often the attitude that makes all the difference. Of course, she´s also an impressive singer - hearing her life is an uplifting and stirring event without fail. So for those of you who have a chance, go see her gig, it´s well worth the time.
The band consists of keyboard player Vítek Pospíšil, bass player Lukáš Kytnar and drummer Tomáš Hobzek.with the likes of Sibongile Khumalo, Marcus Wyatt, Jack van Poll, Hein van de Geyn, Hans van Oosterhout, Dré Pallemaerts, Stacy Rowles, Mark Murphy, Madeline Bell, Georgie Fame, Roy Hargrove, John Engels and Toots Thielemans.

Casandra Faulconer

www.casandrafaulconer.com

Djabe

www.djabe.hu

John Gros

www.papagrowsfunk.com

Petr Zeman Jazz Quintet

Band is celebrating 15th anniversary this year. Bandleader Petr Zeman is one of the leading guitarist on czech jazz scene. Band is playing mostly their own composition in jazz and fusion style.

Young generation blues, funk and shuffles - lead. vocal + el. guitar, bass, drums, contrabass.

Ungelt All Stars

The band was made especially for Unglet Jazz and Blues Club in 2005.You can see members of the band in others band in our club too. Some blues, some instrumentals-enjoy.

J.J. Jazzmen

Performed the programmes "Remembrance of  Louis Armstrong" with great success in many places all over the world, for example: in Czech Republic, Germany, Denmark, USA, England, France, Switzerland, Italy, Mediterranean Jazz Cruise… A special guest, former colleague of Armstrong's and a member of his "All Stars" band, clarinet player Joe Muranyi, gave a perfomance in March and June 2000 in Prague and Berlin together with J.J.Jazzmen. In the following year, the J.J.Jazzmen group was honoured in receiving to perform on 3. May 2001, at the famous "New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival"- the "cradle" of jazz and birthplace of Louis Armstrong.

New in program:  In addition we have enrich our repertory for a music in style of a well-know Louis Prima, by us interpreted by singer and trombon player Josef "Bažík" Pavelka (ex Radio Big Band Prague or Karel Gott Band...).