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Karel Vacek
Karel Vacek is credited on 257 albums across 909 pressings tracked on Gatefold, active 1950–2023 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
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Credits
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Albums
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Decades active
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In collections
Biography
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Czech vocalist, trumpet player, trombonist, composer, arranger, band leader.
Born March 21, 1902 in Liberec (former Austro-Hungarian Empire, presently Czech Republic), died August 18, 1982 in Prague (former Czechoslovakia).
Member of R. A. Dvorský’s “Melody Boys” 1929–1932, Jaroslav Ježek’s orchestras 1935–1938, R. A. Dvorský Orchestra 1938–1941, vocalist with the “Ultraphon Duo” in the 1930s and 1940s. Leader of his own dance orchestra 1942–1946, brass band conductor 1974–1977.
Composer of “Cikánka” (1931) and “Čtyři páry bílejch koní” (1940), among others. Although Vacek as a musician used to perform mainly with jazz-influenced dance orchestras, later as a composer he preferred – and is best remembered for – polkas, marches and waltzes.
Bio from Discogs
Credited work
909 releases · 257 albums · active 1950–2023
- Performance · 1,100
- Other credits · 146
Studios: Studio Dejvice · Československá Televize Praha · Mozarteum · Studio Břevnov
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Frequent collaborators
- Various
- Ernst Mosch Und Seine Original Egerländer Musikanten
- Karel Gott
- Vico Torriani
- Dechová Hudba
- Rocco Granata
- Eino Grön
- Original Egerländer Musikanten
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