PRAGUE CONSERVATORY JAZZ ORCHESTRA
(Big Band VOS KJJ)
Conducted by Milan Svoboda




A modern jazz big band consisting of students of the Jazz Department of the Jaroslav Jezek Conservatory Higher Specialized School was started in 2005 under the tutelage of professor Milan Svoboda. The band specializes in original compositions mostly written by Milan Svoboda and the band members. In 2006 the ensemble played with great success at the International Big Band Festival in Litvinov (CZ) and was featured at festive concerts commemorating Jaroslav Jezek's 100th birth anniversary – the Jazz at the Prague Castle concert and a concert at the ABC theater in Prague. In 2007 the big band took part in the worldwide student big band competition in Monterey, California (USA) – the Next Generation Festival and made it to the finals as the only non-american group among the best six groups. The band then performed at the Monterey Jazz Festival with great success as a special guest in 2008  (review). In the fall of the same year they played at the Slany Jazz Days. In 2009 the big band performed at festivals in Cernosice, Litvinov, Horice and Jablonec plus a very successful concert at Jazz Goes To Town in Hradec Kralove, where they accompanied Italian saxophonist and composer Gianluigi Trovesi in his compositionally challenging project Dedalo. In the fall of 2010 the orchestra completed a successful Asian tour in Taiwan (review) and Vietnam. In 2010 the Czech Television Terra Musica program featured a documentary about the group's activities. In Prague the orchestra plays regularly at the Jazz Time jazz club. The Prague Conservatory Jazz Orchestra consists of 14 members: 4 saxophones, 3 trumpets, 2 trombones and rhythm section.



Links:
Reviews
Recordings
Bandzone
Myspace

Videos:
Taiwan Concert !!
Litvinov Jazz Festival
Terra Musica documentary film


Personell:
1st alto sax / fl - Marek Buble (Marek prokop)
2nd alto sax - Jan Feco
tenor sax - Jan Kyncl (Jakub Snydl)
baritone sax - Marketa Smejkalova (Marek Prokop)
1st trumpet - Jiri Nemec (Petr Harmacek)
2nd trumpet - Michal Kasparek (Jan Hruby)
3rd trumpet - Roman Nemec (Miroslav Hloucal)
1st trombone - Stepan Janousek (Lukas Schmied)
2nd trombone - Zdenek Nemec (Ozzy)
guitar - Kyril Jakovlev (Jan Pisklak)
piano - Tomas Jochman (Iva Korgerova)
bass - Jakub Antl (Michal Krasny)
drums - Karol Zabka (Martin Linhart)
as a leader and conductor - Milan Svoboda