Do that again!

The top of the Czech jazz musicians family is fairly small, they mingled together musically like a big sparrow community, everybody plays with everybody, different line ups are made all the time, and put down just as fast. This is not altogether bad, personally I think that it develops the individual’s technical skills, gives more flexibility in its playing, improvisation etc. This could actually be one of the reasons for the high level of skillful musicians found in the Republic? But every now and then you get the urge to yell STOP, this is good, please develop this a little time. That was the feeling I had after listening to a session with Novák–Barta Quartet, Mirka Novák – voc; Kristina Bárta – p; Jaromír Honzák – b; Jessie Simpson – dr.at the Jazz Dock yesterday. A quartet that actually was a quintet since most of the time they were joined by saxophonist Robert Forejtek, which itself was a brilliant move, he fitted into the line up like a fish to water.