Quick contact: Jakub Cervenka, band leader, phone: (+420) 737 926 536, e-mail: bluetrain@seznam.cz
This project runs from September 2007 at ZUS Isi Krejciho (Isa Krejci Elementary School of Arts) in Olomouc, where I've been teaching for some years. It's full size jazz orchestra formed with the students and teachers of our school and some talented musicians from public - mostly amateurs. We are all put together thanks to our enthusiasm and love for jazz and swing music.
We regularly play at Jazz Tibet Club in Olomouc, in Dec.2008 we performed on Swing Zije festival in Olomouc Regional Center, in June 2009 we played three times outside the city (Tyniste nad Orlici, Vyskov, MHF Ceska Kamenice) and made a recording and direct transmission for local station of Cesky Rozhlas (Czech Radio).
In December 2009 we performed with Lucerne Jazz Orchestra (this happend thanks to the official cooperation of our cities - Olomouc and Luzern), the next day we played at Olomouc Regional Center on Swing zije! festival and finally we pleased our audiences at Jazz Tibet Club again.
On Sunday, May 2, 2010 we performed at Olomouc Regional Center together with Mlady tynistsky big band. We had a special guest - the most talented drummer of our region Kamil Slezak and the whole concert run so well that we decided to repeat it next year. Photos can be found here.
Now we are getting ready for our regular performance at Olomouc's Jazz Tibet Club. The date will be June 10 and we will proudly introduce Martin B Jazzy, singer from Nederlands - more about him at http://martinbjazzy.nl
More about upcoming events at Live Performances.
The Rhythm section of Big Band ZUS Isi Krejciho holds one nice priority - because the music of Count Basie Orchestra forms the base of our repertoire, we exclusively use an acoustic bass and in addition we have Jirka Krbecek on rhythm guitar. He is the first guy in Czech Republic who learned basics of unique Freddie Green technique and he plays on special instrument - 18" acoustic archtop guitar made fore our school by renowned guitar maker - Prochazka Custom Guitars from Prague.
At this time we have another rhythm guitar guy - Jakub Vavra, who is learning basics of Freddie Green style and is about to sit in with the band on our June 2010 JazzTibetClub performance for a couple of songs.
find more about Freddie Green rhythm guitar comping at www.freddiegreen.org
Our school is about to employ new teacher - Marian Friedl, jazz bassist, he will be teaching both acoustic and electric instruments. We are looking for some future students for him - if you want to become good jazz or even rock or pop bassist, please don't be shy and let us know. We also welcome any instrumentalists to our orchestra, but at this time we can take only experienced and strong players, because our schedule gets tight and we simply don't have enough time to teach you the basics within the orchestra rehearsals. If you are an inexperienced player though, you can have some private lessons with us first. So if you play any of the instruments regularly used in our band, live permanently in Olomouc region, want to play with such a group and even become our student, you are invited to join us. Don't hesitate to contact us, we do speak English! We rehearse every thursday in our new rehearseroom - studio on Jilova St. Click here to see the map!
Jakub Cervenka, bandleader, phone number: (+420) 737 926 536, e-mail: bluetrain@seznam.cz
Mgr.Jan Pribil, assistant bandleader, phone number: (+420) 723 740 219, e-mail: jpribil@centrum.cz
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