KARLOVY VARY, 1988

‎Interjazz 6

Václav Zahradník & Prague Television Orchestra  featuring Rudolf Dašek, Georgi Garanian, Peter Hurt, Albert Mangelsdorff, Jiří Stivín, Jan Talich

Supraphon ‎– 11 0183-1 511 (LP)       Czechoslovakia, 1989

The fifth edition of the CZ Jazz Festival, held in Karlovy Vary (Carlsbad) in 1988, included as part of its program an International Jazz Composers Workshop for which the organizers of the event had commissioned six renowned composers to submit scores.  The individual entries were rehearsed by the Prague Television Jazz Orchestra directed by Vaclav Zahradnik and a majority of them were performed in public at a Festival concert on March 26, 1988.

Studio sessions took place the following days and resulted in this album.

Jri Stivin is absolutely stunning in the first track but the whole album is pretty good.  Not a dud track IMHO.  Get it!  I do not think it had appeared in the blogworld before.

Tracklist

A1     Salut                           ( Alexej Fried)                                    8:12

Soloist: Soprano Saxophone, Flute – Jiří Stivín

A2     Good Morning           (Václav Zahradník)                       5:15

Soloist:  Guitar – Rudolf Dašek

A3     Africana                     (Georgi Garanian)                            4:29

Soloist : Alto Saxophone – Georgi Garanian

B1     Par Pondus                 (Emil Viklický)                                   6:40

Soloist:  Viola – Jan Talich

B2     Touch & Go               (Peter Hurt)                                          7:33

Soloists : Alto Saxophone – Peter Hurt  / Double Bass – Robert Balzar / Piano – Emil Viklický

B3     Des'sch Too Much    (Albert Mangelsdorff)                       6:15

Trombone solo :Albert Mangelsdorff

Credits:

Prague Television Orchestra featuring : Albert Mangelsdorff, Jan Talich, Jiří Stivín, Peter Hurt, Rudolf Dašek, Georgi Garanian

Conductor – Václav Zahradník

Trumpet – Jan Burian (2), Miroslav Huja, Miroslav Jelínek, Miroslav Šoltész

Trombone – Ivan Matějček, Ivan Zelenka, Jan Hynčica, Jaromír Dušek, Jiří Sušický

Saxophone – Jindřich Němeček, Jiří Jech, Josef Nachtman, Ladislav Odcházel jr.*, Zdeněk Hostek

Flute – Jaroslav Tichý

Guitar – Jan Kučera

Piano, Electric Piano [Fender] – Emil Viklický

Synthesizer – Jakub Zahradník

Double Bass, Bass Guitar – Robert Balzar

Drums – Ivan Smažík

Recorded at the Czechoslovak Television Studio A, Prague, from 27 to 29 March, 1988 and on 19 April, 1988