Jan Arnet
Jan Arnet (born April 13, 1934 - † May 13, 2017 ) was a Czechoslovakian , then American jazz musician ( double bass , composition).
Live and act
From 1945 Arnet first learned the violin and trombone before switching to the double bass in 1957. Since then he has worked in Czechoslovakia, first with local bands, in order to then appear in a quartet with Svatobor Macák, Rudolf Rokl and Karel Růžička at the opening of the Reduta Jazz Club in Prague . Since 1959 he has played in the dance orchestras and big bands of Zdeněk Barták , Karel Vlach and Karel Krautgartner , and since 1963 in the jazz combos of Karel Velebný ( SHQ ), but also of Jan Konopásek and Milan Dvořák , with whom he recorded. Then he became director of the Czechoslovak National Jazz Orchestra, for which he also composed and with which he toured Europe. During guest appearances in West Germany and France in 1965, he met American jazz musicians such as Leo Wright and Booker Ervin , which eventually led him to emigrate to the United States. In the following year he smuggled his wife and child to West Germany and then moved to the USA, where he worked as a musician, producer, arranger and orchestra director.
Arnet worked a. a. initially with Booker Ervin (1966), Sonny Stitt (1966), Elvin Jones , Tony Scott , Attila Zoller and Chico Hamilton (1967–1969), with whom he recorded two albums. In 1969 Art Blakeys brought him to his Jazz Messengers , with whom he made a guest appearance at the Newport Jazz Festival in the same year and toured Japan in 1970. In the field of jazz he was involved in 39 recording sessions between 1959 and 1970, most recently with Erroll Garner . After a serious operation he had to give up the active game, but remained active as a writer, among other things. a. for Voice of America . His main occupation was in the commercial management of international organizations such as the City University of New York and the Asia Society until his retirement in 1999 .
Lexical entry
- Grove Music Online - The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, 2nd edition, 2002. ISBN 978-1-56159-263-0
Web links
- Eugene Chadbourne : Jan Arnet at Allmusic (English)
- Portrait (czech)
- January Arnet at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Obituary at legacy.com
- ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed May 31, 2017)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Arnet, Jan |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American jazz musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 13, 1934 |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 13, 2017 |