Rudolf Dašek
Rudolf Dašek ( born August 27, 1933, Prague, † February 1, 2013 ) was a Czech jazz guitarist.
Life and work
Rudolf Dašek studied guitar at the Prague Conservatory and worked during the 1960s in various jazz groups, including as a guest soloist in the SHQ combo of Karel Velebný. He played in the Prague jazz club Redoubt, among others, Laco Deczis Cellula quintet. In 1964 he founded his first own band, a trio with bassist Jiri Mraz (later George Mraz ) and changing drummers, as well as Laco Tropp. Furthermore Dašek worked in the Jazz Orchestra of the Czechoslovak Radio, in the big bands of Václav Zahradník and Slide Hampton and various all-star casts. From 1968 to 1970 he played in West Berlin in the house band of the Jazz clubs Blue Note and in a trio of organist Lou Bennett. He also did the collaboration with Benny Bailey, Carmell Jones, Tony Scott, and Leo Wright. 1970 Dašek played his first album Jazz On Six Strings one. In the early 1970s he worked in a duo with flutist Jiří Stivín, with whom he played at many concerts and festivals in Europe. Since 1977, he joined increasingly as a solo guitarist and conducted guitar workshops in Prague jazz club Reduta. In a duo he played with Christian Escoudé, Uwe Kropinski and Philip Catherine. A longer-term collaboration was with guitarist Toto Blanke, resulting in albums such as church music I, " meditation ", "talking hands", "two much guitar", " Tramontana " Silhouettes, "Mona Lisa" (all Aliso Records), " in between the bridge and the silence " reflected. Dasek and Blanke played until 2005 on several international guitar and jazz festivals together ( Prague Spring, Gitarras del mundo, LeMan, International Guitar Festival, Paderborn, among others. ) And completed numerous tours throughout Europe, North Africa and Latin America, partly for the German Goethe Institute. They performed the first jazz musicians in Prague RUDOLFINUM. In 1985, a revival of the duo with Jiří Stivín which - accompanied by the drummer Günter " Baby" Sommer - lasted until the present day. In addition Dašek also appeared as a performer of contemporary music with symphony and chamber orchestras.
Rudolf Dašek united by its own account in his music suggestions in the bebop and free jazz, classical guitar tradition and its sound enhancements in contemporary music, flamenco and Bohemian and Moravian folk music and the music of Leoš Janáček. In addition Dasek uses the sonic possibilities of a full- resonance guitar with pickups. Rudolf Dasek died on February 1, 2013 after a long illness in Prague.
Discography
As a leader
With Toto Blanke
Literature and sources
- Bielefeld Catalog Jazz 2001
- Lubomir Dorůžka: Jazz in Czechoslovakia. In: That's Jazz. The sound of the 20th century. Exhibition catalog, 1988
- Martin Kunzler: jazz lexicon. Rowohlt, Reinbek 1993
- Tony Matzner: liner notes to Jazz On Six Strings ( Supraphon )