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Laco Tropp
(15. 3. 1939 Košice)
Jazz: drums and percussion
1953 private lessons of percussion; playing in amateur dixieland bands in Košice; later dancer in the Lúčnica traditional folk music ensemble
from 1959 professional musician – drummer
1961 during his military service took part with a band in a national level of Army Creative Contest (Prague), met musicians from Prague (Hanuš Berka, Karel Svoboda etc.); cooperation with Laco Déczi
1962 engagement in Otakar Rendl’s Prague Dance Orchestra
1963 – 1964 member of the SHQ jazz orchestra of Karel Velebný and Jan Konopásek
1966 member of the Reduta Quartet
1966 – 1968 member of Peter Herbolzheimer sextet in Nuernberg (Germany), extensively recording for Bavarian Radio
1967 member of Malcolm Waldron’s trio (and quartet) in the Domicile club in Munich
1968 cooperation in Laco Déczi’s album Pietoso (English version “Laco Déczi And The Cellula Quintet Featuring Laco Tropp”)
1969 – 1970 cooperation with Ladislav Gerhardt on the LP Dobre sme sa oženili
1970 – 1971 engagement in the Theatre club (Činoherní klub) (Prague) as a member of Petr Skoumal’s ensemble; member of Rudolf Dašek’s trio
1971 return to Slovakia, position in a café orchestra in Bratislava
1975 Czechoslovak Television Orchestra Prague
1977 founded his own trio, playing in the then German Democratic Republic
1990 obtained a permanent engagement in the Czech Republic (in a quartet with Štepán Markovič – sx)
1995 member of Emil Vilický’s Trio/Quartet in Prague, has been playing with them until present
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
SCHNELLER, Alexander – SCHNELLER, Ada:
Laco Tropp.
In: That Jazz of Praha (Vierzehn Jazz-Porträts in Wort und Bild), Vitalis Verlag, Praha
2006, s. 100-110.
Matzner – Poledňák – Wasserberger a kol.:
Laco Tropp (heslo).
In: Encyklopedie jazzu a moderní populární hudby – část jmenná – československá scéna., Supraphon, Praha
1990, s. 559-560.
DORŮŽKA, Lubomír:
Tropp, Laco.
In: Panoráma jazzu, Mladá fronta
1990, s. 266-267
Paiste Drummer Service:
Laco Tropp.
In: Profiles of International Drummers, Percussionists, Musicians, Presented by Paiste Cymbals Gongs.
1981, s. 68.
Matzner, Antonín:
Někdo to rád horké.
In: Melodie , Praha
1969/7, s. 206.
AWARDS
1967
Voting enquiry of the Melodie Magazines
- 1. miesto
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