Jaroslav Jezek: 1906 (Czechoslovakia) - 1942 (New York). Jezek was a brilliant jazz composer and leader of a big band in addition to a career as a classical composer and pianist. In November 1934, the ...

Jaroslav Ježek was the son of a tradesman and had little formal musical training. Yet he was granted admission to the Prague Conservatory and was one of their most talented students.

Sung in Czech. Notes: A sample of cabaret songs and comedy sketches representing JezOEek's work in the Prague Liberated Theater from 1928 until World War II. Program notes by Chester Sherwood in ...

Pianist Patricia Goodson visits The Dark Blue Room in Prague. It was originally the study belonging to composer Jaroslav Jezek who laid the foundations for Czech modern jazz and dance music. She looks ...

Ondřej Ruml with the Matej Benko Quintet will present new interpretations of the songs from Osvobozené Divadlo from his album Ondřej Ruml zpívá Ježka, Voskovce a Wericha, applauded by critics and ...

Jazz has a long history in Prague. In the early 20th century, Prague’s Jaroslav Ježek was one of the world’s premier jazz conductors and the city soon became jazz capital of the Soviet Union. Today, ...

Dark blue world = Tmavomodry svet : from Dynamite Island = Ostrov Dynamit --Trojan horse = Trojksy kun : from Bolt out of the blue = Pest na oko --Bloody moon = from The mirage -- Prague blues = ...