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  • Recorded: 25th August 2020
  • Record Place: Studio Jalovec, Babice nad Svitavou
  • First Release: 2021
  • (P) 2021 Bivak Records
  • Genre: Jazz

Artists

  • music by: Vilém Spilka
  • tenor-saxophone: Radek Zapadlo
  • percussion: Petr Tureček
  • Hammond organ: Vladan Ronner
  • guitar: Vilém Spilka
  • musical group: Four in Blue

Album

Four in Blue

Four in Blue

Digital services

Catalogue Number: BR001
Published: 16th August 2021
Genre: Jazz
Format: 1 CD
Earthy blues and soul jazz. The bandleader, saxophonist Radek Zapadlo (Vilém Spilka Quartet, Cotatcha Orchestra, Ondřej Ruml, Matej Benko, etc.) founded the quartet in 2017, inspired by the legendary recordings "Back at the Chicken Shack" and "Midnight Special" by the great "Hammond" player Jimmy Smith. Since then, the quartet has moved towards its own original music in the aesthetics of those recordings and styles. All members of the band, even the traditionalist Radek Zapadlo, a well-known jazz conservative, forced themselves to write compositions for this band. Therefore we will have a unique opportunity to hear Zapadlo's future hits Dog's Blues, Fried Egg or Blues for Magda.
Surprisingly early, the band has made it to their debut eponymous CD, which was born in pain in the infamous studio Jalovec in Babice nad Svitavou. Radek Zapadlo, playing tenor and alto saxophone in Four in Blue, surrounded himself with equally experienced players so that the band's line up can pay respect to Smith's original recordings - Petr Tureček (a rising jazz star from the Department of Jazz at the JAMU Brno) on drums, Vladan Ronner (Mulligang, Milan Kašuba Trio etc.) on Hammond organ and Vilém Spilka (Vilém Spilka Quartet etc.) on guitar. The band's current repertoire is dominated by originals penned by all band members. You can check out the core of it on this CD.
Radek Zapadlo
1. Blues for Magda 06:05
Vladan Ronner
2. Settings 05:08
Radek Zapadlo
3. Fried Egg 05:08
Vilém Spilka
4. One for J&J 05:23
Vilém Spilka
5. 44 04:49
Radek Zapadlo
6. Dog's Blues 08:11
Vladan Ronner
7. Just in Case 05:55
Vilém Spilka
8. Pendolino 04:18