JIRI LEVICEK

Do be do be dooo be dooo be doobe dedoo...the beat repeats like a catchy tune in our mind. The scat like sounds resonate...again we hear the melody making us want to tap our feet to the walking bass line. Daaaa DA daaaa DA dadadaDA, syncopated rythm makes us add a clap to the mixture and pretty soon we are moving to the tunes of the young Czech composer/pianist Jiri Levicek. Twenty-two-year-old Jiri Levicek impresses audiences with his grasp of standard jazz music adding original elements and dabs of classical and folk motifs, accompanied by a talented drummer Kamil Slezak and bass guitarist Vlastimil Trllo... The Czech trio’s repertoire is comprised largely of compositions written by Jiri Levicek himself, who graduated from the prestigious Janacek Music Academy in Brno with honors. He takes his influence from the music of multi-Grammy nominated saxophonist Bill Evans, jazz drummer Peter Erskine, and jazz pianists: read more...