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Longing
Album: Live In Vienna
By Emil Viklicky
Label: Cube-Metier
Released: 0
Recorded live at Vienna's ORF RadioKulturhaus, April 27, 2007
"The Funky Way of Emil Viklicky" Reviewed in UK Vibe!
Here is an interesting keyboardist deserving of wider recognition. Born in 1948 in the then-Czechoslavakia, Emil Viklicky made his album debut in 1975 in the middle of the jazz-fusion/rock period internationally and the album sold over 30,00 copies within the country. During 1977/1978, Viklicky was awarded a one-year scholarship to study at the prestigious Boston Berklee ...
Emil Viklicky: Emil Viklicky 60
Label: Multisonic Records
Released: 2009
Track listing: Introduction by Czech President Vaclav Klaus; In The Mists; A Thousand Ships; Noa, Noa; What's New; One January Morning; Prague In March; Aspen Leaf; Caravan; What Now My Love.
Emil Viklicky Releases New CD in Japan
Emil Viklicky and Venus Records are pleased to announce the release of Emil's latest CD, Sinfonietta~The Janacek of Jazz (VHCD 1034). Eleven of its dozen tracks were recorded at Avatar Studios in New York last year with George Mraz on bass and Lewis Nash on drums. The twelfth track, Sinfonietta," recorded in Prague in 2007 with ...
Claudio Roditi: A Brazilian in Iowa
by Victor Verney
Watching trumpeter Claudio Roditi lead some unfamiliar sidemen through an afternoon rehearsal prior to an evening performance provided a good look at something not readily apparent at concerts. While the audience at that night's show in Ottumwa, Iowa saw Roditi's talents as a player and improviser (and even singer) displayed, most concertgoers could only have a ...
Emil Viklicky Releases New Book of Transcriptions for Solo Piano
Czech Radio Publishing has issued a transcription book of Emil Viklicky's music titled Green Satin, Jazz for Piano Solo. Featuring fourteen of Viklicky's compositions, this publication also includes a CD of Viklicky playing each selection so as to help students understand the proper phrasing. To order a copy, send an e-mail to [email protected] or telephone Czech ...
Emil Viklicky Gives a Spellbinding Performance at City of London Festival
It’s not often you see starched white table-linen and little posies of flowers decorated with national flags at a jazz gig. But this was a special event put on by the City of London Festival Festival to mark the handover of the EU presidency from the Czech Republic to Sweden (you didn’t know that important fact? ...
Emil Viklicky: Emil Viklicky 60
by Victor Verney
Emil Viklicky Emil Viklicky 60 Multisonic 2009 Imagine Barack Obama introducing, say, keyboard player Herbie Hancock for a live concert at the White House on the occasion of Hancock's 60th birthday (a milestone, incidentally, that Hancock reached on April 12, 2000). Pianist Emil Viklicky's latest CD was created ...
Emil Viklicky Trio: Ballads And More
Label: Arta Records
Released: 2008
Track listing: Always and Forever; I Fall in Love Too Easily; Dedicated to You; Highlands, Lowlands; Coral; A Flower Is a Lovesome Thing; Peacocks; Maybe Later; Polka Dots and Moonbeams; When the Sun Comes Out; Leaving; All of You; Smile.
Emil Viklicky Trio: Ballads And More
by Victor Verney
Emil Viklicky Trio Ballads And More Arta 2008 Pianist Kenny Barron, on several occasions, has said that in his view the ballad is what separates the wheat from the chaff with musicians. As far as I'm concerned," he maintains, if you can't play a ballad, forget about it!" ...