Hanuš Berka
Hanuš Berka (born December 15, 1941 in Prague , † April 14, 1978 in Munich ) was a Czechoslovak jazz musician ( tenor and soprano saxophone , flute , piano ).
Life
Berka, whose father was a member of the Prague Philharmonic Orchestra, received classical piano lessons at the age of five. Later Berka learned to play guitar, clarinet, saxophone and flute. After studying at the Prague Conservatory, he was honored as the best tenor saxophonist at the German Amateur Jazz Festival in 1964. In 1966 he worked as arranger for the singer Karel Gott and spent a year in Las Vegas . In Prague he belonged to the Traditional Jazz Studio and played with Jan Hammer and Miroslav Vitouš . At the end of the 1960s he was musical director of the German version of the musical Hair , in which the Prague beat band The Matadors appeared. At the Oslo Jazz Festival he performed his jazz fair, for which he received an award.
He founded the early 1970s in Munich, together with Jiří Matoušek and Otto Bezloja, the band Emergency , in which first and Dusko Goykovich and Udo Lindenberg played. Emergency recorded two LPs of brass-heavy jazz rock for CBS before they broke up. Between 1973 and 1975, Berka directed three more albums for the Brain label with a different line-up. Berka also worked as a studio musician for Tiger B. Smith , Ken Rhodes , Donna Summer , Marsha Hunt and Heidelinde Weis and continued to play in Dusko Goykovich's Munich Big Band . He died as a result of a car accident.
Discographic notes
- Traditional Jazz Studio Trrad Trrad (1967)
- Emergency (1971)
- Emergency Get Out to the Country (1973)
Web links
- Hanuš Berka at Discogs
- Hanuš Berka at Allmusic (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Baby blue pages
- ↑ a b Die Band des Böhmen Berka Hamburger Abendblatt , April 30, 1971
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Berka, Hanuš |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Czechoslovak jazz musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 15, 1941 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Prague |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 14, 1978 |
| Place of death | Munich |