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🔴 LIVE FROM PALACKÉHO SADY: Updates go live during the stage changes! 🕒 UPDATE 1 (17:20) — Herák | Bulatkin “Elysium” opens the festival! A highly skillful, beautifully relaxed performance by Herák & Bulatkin “Elysium”—the brilliant new collaborative project by Míra Herák and Daniel Bulatkin, featuring Tomáš Baroš on double bass and Marek Urbánek on drums—has […]

Jazz in Písek 2026: An Exclusive “Live” Coverage Event The Czech Republic’s only fiercely independent, ad-free music blog, yhalinen.com, is officially hitting the road to bring you another unique, front-row festival experience!  Tomorrow, Friday, August 7th, I’ll be in the south to deliver near-real-time coverage of the 10th anniversary of Jazz in Písek. My camera lens and notebook

By Nigel Price (Guest Feature) Editor’s Note: Nigel Price is an award-winning UK jazz guitarist who frequently collaborates in Prague with Libor Šmoldas. He recently shared this brutal look into the modern music industry. It is the perfect reality check for every music lover.Numbers. It’s all about numbers, isn’t it? If a young musician asked me

Three of Seven @ U Staré Paní | 31.7.2026 Performing under the temporary “pseudonym” of the Libor Šmoldas Trio ft. Sam Zerna & Jesse Simpson, Three of Seven continued their grand 2026 summer tour last night. No, I don’t know why the club used a pseudonym on the program, and to be completely honest, I don’t

Petra Vlková & Sonic Playground @ U Staré paní | 30.7.2026 It is no secret to anyone who reads yhalinen.com that Petra and Sonic Playground belong at the very top of my “must-see” list. I have spoken before about why: on top of being excellent musicians, they possess a collective harmony that is hard to put a

Where to go and who to listen to… Jazzy Summer 2026 is in full swing, and the tempo is incomprehensible!  The domestic offering remains so abundant that it’s hard to stay on the ride—which is exactly why yhalinen.com is hitting the road this month for some special live festival coverage and the birth of a brand-new jazz tradition!  Scroll

Three of Seven @ Jazz Dock | 27.7.2026 The multi-continental jazz group Three of Seven—featuring Libor Šmoldas (guitar), Sam Zerna (bass), and Jesse Simpson (drums/piano)—are back in town. They are just as exceptionally good as one could expect—and maybe even a little bit better. There is a precise reason why I recently dedicated an entire

Daniel Bulatkin International Quartet @ Jazz Dock | 26.7.2026 A true “first try” perfectly captures the breathtaking energy of the band that took over the stage at Jazz Dock yesterday. Despite this being only their fifth gig ever, they delivered a performance so tight, intuitive, and seamlessly locked-in that you would have sworn they had

Vápenicefest Brazil 2026 @ Ateliér 57, Beroun | 19.7.2026 Prague’s best jazz club, the one in Beroun, Ateliér 57, hosted Vápenicefest Brazil yesterday—an extraordinary international jazz festival featuring an incredible lineup of musicians seamlessly blending European, American, and Brazilian musical traditions. The festival set a brand-new audience record. I dare say this massive turnout had

Three of Seven Special Tour Feature: Summer 2026 It is highly unusual for yhalinen.com to dedicate an entire standalone feature just to promote a band’s tour schedule. But rules are meant to be broken—especially when dealing with a trio this exceptionally good. Finding these three in the same room is a rare event, largely due to their