George Mraz & Emil Viklicky - Together Again (CD)

Release Date: 02/28/14Mraz and Viklický - two of the leading Czech jazz musicians - perform a new Czech way of jazz, fresh ideas on traditional foundations.George Mraz and Emil Viklický – two of the leading Czech jazz musicians back together again: The former is one of the best-known bassists worldwide and built a career in the States. He has credits on almost 1,000 records and CDs. There is as good as no big name in jazz that he hasn’t made music with. The Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra, Stan Getz, Tommy Flanagan and Richie Beirach were his most important regular partners. “George plays the bass like he invented it. He always plays exactly the note you want to hear,” said pianist Beirach about him once. Viklický is less well known internationally than his countryman, but no less significant: He is the “patriarch of Czech jazz piano” (London Evening Standard) and “one of the best contemporary pianists, whose touch, voicing and chords have a lot in common with the grand