Black and White photo by Urzula Las

She’s a lady…

(Black and White photo by Urzula Las) Michelle Nicolle fulfills the expectations I will not repeat myself from the last time, I’ll just state that this time I had expectations and they all came true. The feeling after the concert was like Santa gave you the top of your wishlist. I probably looked very stupid

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Michelle Nicolle & The Gang

Michelle Nicolle, we surrender!

The Sophisticated Lady from Australia Bastion Prague last night, Michelle Nicolle – voc; Ronny Ferrella – dr; Libor Šmoldas – g; Tomáš Baroš – b. Four absolutely top musicians in the world called jazz and yet… Sorry guys, this night belonged to The Lady of Jazz. Michelle Nicolle, what an absolutely new, exatings and pleasant experience

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The Studio, Part two

Time to start recording… Take your favorite song, learn it really well, so good that if somebody wakes you up in the middle of the night, you can perform it without any problem. When this is in your possession, get yourself into the bathroom, sing your song about ten times in a loud voice, like

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The Studio, Part one

Petra Vlková and Sonic Playground goes recording It’s an early morning hour in Svárov, a village about 20 km. from Prague. From Wikipedia we can learn that “Svárov is a municipality and village in Kladno District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 600 inhabitants.”It doesn’t sound very impressive, on

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Vladimir Pinta 1933-2024

The musical location has changed… 😢 This week we will honor Vladimir Pinta who sadly passed away Saturday the 9th November, 2024 at the age of 91 years.  A street musician by his own choice, an Old Town legend for the inhabitants and tourists in Prague. Vladimir Pinta was not only a saxophone and trombone player,

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Soul ožil

The Czech soul… U Staré paní (The Old Lady) last night, full to the brim, there was even a queue outside and not everybody got in. The reason was to be found in the Czech soul… named Soul ožil (Markéta Chladová, Ondřej Nechvátal, Kateřina Vlastová, Anna Šteklová, Kristýna Kanická, Martin Jozífek, Michal Havlíček, Jan Korba,

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