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Jazz Dialogue: Jan Kyncl & Vojtěch Procházka
Event by: U Staré paní Jazz&Cocktail Club
Location: Jazz&Cocktail Club U Staré paní, Michalská 441/9, Praha 1
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JAN KYNCL is a saxophonist and composer who is one of the prominent faces of the young Czech jazz generation. He regularly collaborates with the best of Czech jazz and alternative music, either as a sideman or a leader. He is currently involved in the projects Jan Kyncl Quartet, Kyncl Culture, FaKyn, Kristina Barta Quartet, Jan Smigmator & Band, Jan Smigmator Big Band, Camoes House Band. He also collaborates with big bands such as Jazz Dock Orchestra or Gustav Brom's Radio Big Band. In addition to his varied musical activities, he works as a music dramaturg at Czech Radio.
VOJTĚCH PROCHÁZKA is a Czech pianist, composer and improviser. It moves between jazz and free improvisation. He studied piano, composition and North Indian classical music in Oslo, Paris and Prague. He is a co-founder of the band Vertigo, with which he won three Golden Angel awards, and has long-term cooperation with outstanding personalities of the domestic and foreign scene - among them, for example, Harpreet Bansal, Sisa Feher (KHI), Michaela Antalová (Mikoo), Luboš Soukup (Freetown Quartet), Monika Načeva or Lucie Páchová (Talaqpo). He is also dedicated to the creation of film and theater music (Handa Gote, Josef Tuka, Naivní divadlo Liberec, Divadlo Alfa Plzeň, etc.) and has been creating live musical accompaniment to silent films for more than twenty years. He is also active in the field of improvised music (Krekso, PIO, ex-Bergljot projects) and plays the harmonium in the FSKC Drancy brass ensemble. He works as a pedagogue at the jazz department of HAMU and at New York University in Prague.
VOJTĚCH PROCHÁZKA is a Czech pianist, composer and improviser. It moves between jazz and free improvisation. He studied piano, composition and North Indian classical music in Oslo, Paris and Prague. He is a co-founder of the band Vertigo, with which he won three Golden Angel awards, and has long-term cooperation with outstanding personalities of the domestic and foreign scene - among them, for example, Harpreet Bansal, Sisa Feher (KHI), Michaela Antalová (Mikoo), Luboš Soukup (Freetown Quartet), Monika Načeva or Lucie Páchová (Talaqpo). He is also dedicated to the creation of film and theater music (Handa Gote, Josef Tuka, Naivní divadlo Liberec, Divadlo Alfa Plzeň, etc.) and has been creating live musical accompaniment to silent films for more than twenty years. He is also active in the field of improvised music (Krekso, PIO, ex-Bergljot projects) and plays the harmonium in the FSKC Drancy brass ensemble. He works as a pedagogue at the jazz department of HAMU and at New York University in Prague.