{"id":6972,"date":"2015-09-25T12:38:32","date_gmt":"2015-09-25T19:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=6972"},"modified":"2015-09-25T12:38:32","modified_gmt":"2015-09-25T19:38:32","slug":"emil-viklicky-and-friends-in-prague","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2015\/09\/emil-viklicky-and-friends-in-prague\/","title":{"rendered":"Emil Viklick\u00c3\u00bd And Friends In Prague"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Viklicky-at-Reduta.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Viklicky-at-Reduta.jpg\" alt=\"Viklicky at Reduta\" width=\"200\" height=\"193\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6973\" \/><\/a>Blogging has slowed a bit while I work on a few writing projects. One of them involves notes for an album by the veteran Czech pianist Emil Viklick\u00c3\u00bd. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a collection of duets with a countryman, the young trumpeter, composer and arranger Miroslav Hloucal. Hloucal is little known outside of the Czech Republic. Based on what I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve heard of him, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d say that will change.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, a new video has shown up of Viklick\u00c3\u00bd, his trio and a guest performing at Reduta, the prominent Prague jazz club. The piece is Mercer Ellington\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Things Ain\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t What They Used To Be,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d with Viklick\u00c3\u00bd, Josef Fe\u00c4\u008do on bass, Tom\u00c3\u00a1\u00c5\u00a1 Hobzek on drums, and the Belgian alto saxophonist Steve Houben. <\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"540\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/g1f0_0wY4_U?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><p>Not a bad way to start the weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blogging has slowed a bit while I work on a few writing projects. One of them involves notes for an album by the veteran Czech pianist Emil Viklick\u00c3\u00bd. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a collection of duets with a countryman, the young trumpeter, composer and arranger Miroslav Hloucal. Hloucal is little known outside of the Czech Republic. Based on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6972","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry","8":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6972\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}