Laco Tropp

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Laco Tropp

Laco Tropp (born March 15, 1939 in Košice , † June 18, 2018 in Prague ) was a Slovak jazz drummer .

Live and act

Tropp took drum lessons when he was fourteen. He first played in local bands Dixieland ; then he was active in a folk dance ensemble. From 1959 he worked as a professional musician. During his military service in 1961 he met Prague jazz musicians such as Hanuš Berka and Karel Svoboda ; then he worked with Laco Déczi , and then in 1962 in Prague in Otakar Rendl's dance orchestra. In 1963 and 1964 he was a member of Karel Velebnýs SHQ , then in the quartet of the Reduta jazz club. From 1966 to 1968 he was a member of Peter Herbolzheimer's sextet in Nuremberg , with whom he was regularly involved in recordings for Bavarian Radio ; In addition, he played Munich Domicile in the trio of Mal Waldron (partially expanded to a quartet with Christian Burchard ). Back in Czechoslovakia he worked with Ladislav Gerhardt (LP Dobre sme sa oženili ), Petr Skoumal and Rudolf Dašek before playing in a café orchestra in Bratislava from 1971 . In 1975 he became a member of the Czechoslovak TV Orchestra in Prague; In 1977 he also founded his own trio with which he toured in the GDR. Since 1995 he has been one of Emil Viklický's combos , in which he also worked with Scott Robinson , Jiří Stivín and Benny Golbin.

Discographic notes

literature

  • Alexander & Ada Schneller Laco Tropp . In: That Jazz of Praha. Fourteen jazz portraits in words and pictures. Vitalis Verlag, Prague 2006, pp. 100-110.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ďalší jazzman odišiel do nebeskej kapely !!! , accessed January 12, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Tropp, Laco
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Slovak jazz drummer
DATE OF BIRTH March 15, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Košice
DATE OF DEATH June 18, 2018
Place of death Prague