Lubomír Dorůžka

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Lubomír Dorůžka (born March 18, 1924 in Prague ; † December 16, 2013 there ) was a Czech musicologist and journalist.

Dorůžka wrote about jazz music in an underground magazine during World War II and the occupation of Czechoslovakia by German troops . After the Communist Party came to power in 1948, he worked as a translator for F. Scott Fitzgerald . After studying English, he received his doctorate in American literature in 1950. In the following years he published a number of books on jazz and pop music , including a biography on Karel Vlach ; He also produced the album Jazz V Československu for Supraphon in 1961 and was co-organizer of the Prague International Jazz Festival and the International Jazz Federation . He gave an overview of jazz in Czechoslovakia from 1945 to 1993 at the 3rd Darmstadt Jazz Forum . A lifelong friendship connected him with the writer and saxophonist Josef Škvorecký , with whom he edited several jazz publications.

Publications (selection)

  • 1966 - Tvář jazzu
  • 1967 - Československý jazz. Minulost a přítomnost
  • 1970 - Tvář moderního jazzu
  • 1979 - Panoráma populární hudby 1918/1978
  • 1990 - Panoráma jazzu
  • 1990 - Jedenáct jazzových osmiček
  • 1997 - Panoráma paměti
  • 2002 - Český jazz mezi tanky a klíči
  • 2004 - Panoráma snů
  • 2010 - Panoráma jazzových proměn

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Ondřej Bezr: Zemřel Lubomír Dorůžka, Nestor českých hudebních publicistů i překladatelů. In: idnes.cz . December 17, 2013, accessed October 2, 2019 (Czech).
  2. ^ Lubomír Dorůžka. In: Databazeknih.cz. Retrieved October 2, 2019 (Czech).
  3. Lubomír Dorůžka at Discogs (English)
  4. Renowned Czech jazz critic dies at 89. In: Miami Herald . December 17, 2013, archived from the original on December 17, 2013 ; accessed on October 2, 2019 .
  5. printed in Wolfram Knauer (Ed.): Jazz in Europa (= Darmstadt Contributions to Jazz Research, Vol. 3). Hofheim 1994.
  6. Lubomír Dorůžka: Milý Errole! In: Škvorecký 80: sborník o mezinárodní konference o životě a díle Josefa Škvorckého, která se uskutečnila n Náchodě u příležitosti autorova životního jubilea ve dnech 22.-24. září 2004. Literární akademie, Prague, 2005, ISBN 80-86877-13-2 , pp. 384f.