Jazz Articles about Lubos Soukup

About Lubos Soukup

Album Review

Lubos Soukup Quartet featuring Lionel Loueke: Země

Read "Země" reviewed by Friedrich Kunzmann

by Friedrich Kunzmann
March 12, 2018

Dedicated to our planet, Země finds Denmark-based saxophonist Lubos Soukup's Quartet joined by Lionel Loueke for a rich set of earthy tunes (pun intended). Translated from the Czech Zeme, each title on “earth" is tightly intertwined with nature in name and atmosphere. Not allowing the slightest hypocrisy to shine through, even the booklet of the quartet's third outing is made of recycled paper and it's content ends on a formal dedication to Mother Earth and a very aware “May our ...

Album Review

Lubos Soukup: Through the Mirror

Read "Through the Mirror" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi

by Angelo Leonardi
July 1, 2014

Il secondo album da leader del sassofonista ceco Lubos Soukup è un lavoro dagli intenti ambiziosi, e per vari aspetti riuscito, che porta il suo quartetto al confronto con differenti ambiti espressivi: da un lato dinamiche orchestrazioni jazz di taglio mainstream e dall'alto sperimentazioni cameristiche di stampo contemporaneo. Dopo aver studiato al conservatorio di Praga e alla polacca Academia Muzyczna Szymanowskiego di Katowice, Soukup ha perfezionato i suoi studi al conservatorio di Copenhagen dove ormai risiede. È ...