Miroslav Vitous
Miroslav Vitous
Miroslav Ladislav Vitoušis a Czech jazz bassist who is known for his extensive career in the US...
NationalityCzechoslovakian
ProfessionBassist
Date of Birth6 December 1947
technology sound computer
I was very much fascinated with the technology we had that we could edit in the computer our compositions, but all the sounds that were available on the market were crap.
years hundred percent
But I have returned to one hundred percent playing this year. I am fully back to playing full time.
play week broke
Miles Davis had me play and he hired me the following week and after that, everything broke wide open.
europe together trios
I am touring in Europe. I am putting together a trio and a quartet. I am playing solo concerts with my symphonic sounds. I am very much engaged back to playing and recording and everything.
years cds crops
I did extensive, extensive recordings and made a classical CD-ROM set, which is still on the market. For ten years, it was by itself as the cream of the crop of samples.
together albums firsts
I thought it was time to get a group together and the first person I thought of was Wayne Shorter. I called Wayne and in the meantime, Wayne called me to make an album with him, which was Super Nova.
player bass albums
So I am one of those bass players who can do something and musically, it was back then and now it is even more, if you noticed on the new album, I am not playing all the time anymore.
teacher years age
I basically started playing violin at the age of six. That lasted about three years because my previous teacher died and the second teacher didn't really know how to successfully get me going.
player listening ears
So our ears got used to listening to jazz in the place that it was that the bass player could not play. No one really realized it and really addressed it until the bass players who could play their instrument came along and started doing something with it.
age bass came piano picked switched
Basically, I switched over to the piano and then at the age of fourteen, I picked the bass up because it was something that just came into my life.
school principles purpose
The money in the schools overpowers the principles of the purpose.
coming knowledge pass pays serious street treated trying upsetting worse
That was really so upsetting when you are trying to pass on some very serious knowledge and be basically, treated worse than a student coming off the street because his father pays the tuition. Come on. Give me a break. This is no school. This is a joke.
best fantastic knowledge musical people product sound
I had a vision how it should sound and I put all my knowledge into this product and it is a fantastic product. People still tell me that I have the best musical thing there.