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.
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.
player bass facts
So the whole basis for jazz music is based on the fact that the bass player could not play his instrument.
communication roles levels
There is no roles. No one is keeping any roles. The drummer is also answering everybody and everything. So it is a constant conversation and communication between musicians on an extremely high level with extremely valuable material, motifs, and melodies.
stay-strong new-york player
I actually met Chick Corea in New York, where I was staying with a bass player friend.
teacher teaching taught-us
They [the teachers at European conservatories] taught us because they wanted to pass the knowledge on and educate young musicians. It was not because they had to teach because they failed as musicians. There is a huge difference in the reasons why someone is teaching and what they can offer and what they cannot offer.