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
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.
cannot difference educate failed huge knowledge offer pass reasons taught teaching
They 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.
bass needed player solo somebody
I am more of a solo bass player and he needed somebody who would keep the role.
far took
I took it very seriously and got very far with it. I was pretty much on a high level when I arrived.
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.
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.
stay-strong new-york player
I actually met Chick Corea in New York, where I was staying with a bass player friend.
musician
I am a Slavic musician and it is deeply inside of me.
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.
player bass facts
So the whole basis for jazz music is based on the fact that the bass player could not play his instrument.
country teacher passing-on
There was the best teachers from the Czech Philharmonic, highly dedicated people, some of the best musicians in the world passing on the knowledge about the country, about the principles, and about the music.
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.
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.