New albums to be recorded

5. 5. 2009

After the two releases planned for April-June 2009 there are more albums to be released after the summer, that have just been recorded or will be recorded soon. Bassist and composer Jaromir Honzak has just recorded his fifth album with his Czech-Polish quartet featuring David Doruzka on guitar, Michal Tokaj on piano and Lukasz Zyta on drums, this time with a special guest - US saxophonist Chris Cheek. CD will be released in early September. Guitarist Libor Smoldas is just about to record his second album in NYC with All-Stars line-up - George Mraz on bass, Jeff Ballard on drums and Sam Yahel on piano! Bassist Tomas Liska will record his first album with David Doruzka on guitar and Daniele di Bonaventura (IT) on bandoneon in June. Infinite Quintet have recorded their debut album in March, it is going to be released in October. Last but not least - well known hammond player Ondrej Pivec will perform with special guests (Joel Frahm on tenor sax and Bucinatores Big Band) on 16 July in Prague and the show will be recorded for live CD/DVD to be released in 2010. Hope you will enjoy these tons of great music!

Another Animal Music´s jazz album of the year

5. 5. 2010

David Doruzka´s “Silently Dawning” was awarded as “Jazz Album of the year 2008″ by Czech Academy of popular music (Czech Grammy). Animal Music had one more nomination in this cathegory - Vertigo Quintet & Dorota Barova. After Jaromir Honzak´s jazz album of the year 2007 this is second award for Animal Music in two years of its existence!

New albums released

5. 5. 2009

Pianist Beata Hlavenkova´s CD “Joy For Joel” containing her own compositions, that was recorded in NYC and features Ingrid Jensen on trumpet, Rich Perry on tenor sax, Dave Easley on pedal steel, Mattt Clohesy on bass and Jon Wikan on drums has just been released! Beata toured Czech Republic in quartet wiith Ingrid, Jon and excellent Polish bassist Michal Barański in April 2009. Czech jazz-pop and experimenting group Lanugo will release their debut album in June 2009, containing 8 their own songs and At Last, well known standard performed by Etta James (among many others).