@17:00 The Metropolitan Jazz Band was founded in the year 1972 by trumpeter Josef Krajnik. Originally playing Dixieland music, it has developed into a full professional orchestra with a very broad repertoire, ranging from blues to Dixieland and mainstream.

The sound of the MJB has remained the same through several personnel changes owing to the unmistakable trumpet playing style of Josef Krajnik. His style originated in that of Louis Armstrong. Roy Eldridge and others. The arrival of young musicians has caused a move to a more modern approach to harmony and arrangement of individual compositions. In particular the rhythmic group together: piano, bass, electric guitar, drums and percussion, forms the motor of the orchestra. Here the dominating factor is pianist Radim Linhart, who belongs to a new wave of young professional musicians.

Entrance: 90czk

@22:00 Hloucal Quintet is a jazz band led by Miroslav Hloucal, who was born in 1983 in Chrudim, Czech Republic. He is currently studying his final year at Jazz Faculty of Jaroslav Jezek’s College in Prague. He came to Prague music scene at first with the quartet of Roman Pokorny, and later he started to cooperate with other (jazz and non-jazz) musicians. He is one of the establishing members of INFINITE QUINTET. Miroslav was also invited to join a brass band named BUCINATORES. In 2007 he began to cooperate with a singer, Marketa Foukalova, and the LANUGO band. With the band Work, Shop & More, he underwent a tour together with American guitarist and singer Hiram Bullock. Miroslav also took part in recording Hiram’s album (as a member of Czech horn section). In 2008, Miroslav and a saxophonist Lubos Soukup established a quartet without a harmonic instrument called POINTS. Miroslav Hloucal was also invited to take part in a new project of pianist Matej Benko called MATEJ BENKO QUINTET.
Miroslav Hloucal actively participates also in these projects:

Navigators, Connection, Madfinger, Sixin, Ossian Roberts Big Band, Gustav Brom Big Band, Veleband and more