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
bass needed player solo somebody
I am more of a solo bass player and he needed somebody who would keep the role.
albums aside bass common infinite less main playing
The main thing that those two albums have in common aside from my music, which of course, a sense of it, you can recognize, it is that the bass on Infinite Search was playing much, much less like a bass.
ear far found knew talents tested tests training
They tested my talents and found out that I had talent by some tests they knew how to do as far as ear training and this kind of thing.
became chairman classical england jazz later school
This was 1965, ?64, I was going to the conservatory there and later on, I became chairman of the New England Conservatory, which was a classical school with a jazz department.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
play week broke
Miles Davis had me play and he hired me the following week and after that, everything broke wide open.
years hundred percent
But I have returned to one hundred percent playing this year. I am fully back to playing full time.
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.
lines bass stuff
I continued studying by myself in the field of jazz with my own technique of improvisation, walking bass lines, rhythms, all kinds of stuff, which I created for myself.
years europe four
I was pretty much prepared because I was already playing in extremely good ways when I arrived from Europe because I played jazz four or five years before I arrived here.