Jan Spálený

Music director, dramaturg, late-night radio storyteller - the father of the Czech blues was born on December 4, 1942 in Královské Vinohrady to very young musically inclined parents as the first-born. In childhood, he squealed on the violin miserably and unmotivated. After rocking through puberty, he discovered dixieland, the first gateway to the world of jazz, i.e. improvisation. Most of all, however, he met the beloved wind musical instrument for the rest of his life. After graduating from high school at the age of eleven, he worked as a digger at the yard party at the Rudý Letov factory. He studied at the Prague Conservatory from 1964 to 1968. He alternately played the trombone, tuba, and baritone saxophone, and began learning to play the cornet at the age of fifty-six. Over the years, he played Dixieland, rock and roll, rhythm and blues, he and his brother Petr had the bands Hipps and Apollobeat, he was a guest in pop bands and music that is mostly called serious. Since 1984, ASPM has lived and for ASPM. All his life he composes, writes texts, arranges, provokes...

ASPM The Amateur Association of Professional Musicians currently plays in the lineup: Jan Spálený – piano, cornet, vocals Michal Gera – flugelhorn, trumpet, vocals Filip Spálený – tuba, bass Filip Jeníček – drums Radek Krampl – vibraphone