Ladislav "Laco" Déczi (29 March 1938,
Bernolákovo
Bernolákovo ( hu, Cseklész, german: Lanschütz, former Slovak names: ''Čeklís'', ''Čeklýs'') is a village and municipality in western Slovakia in Senec District in the Bratislava Region.
Names and etymology
The German name ''Lanschütz'' ...
,
Czechoslovakia
, rue, Чеськословеньско, , yi, טשעכאסלאוואקיי,
, common_name = Czechoslovakia
, life_span = 1918–19391945–1992
, p1 = Austria-Hungary
, image_p1 ...
) is a Slovak-American
jazz
Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues and ragtime. Since the 1920s Jazz Age, it has been recognized as a m ...
trumpet
The trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz ensembles. The trumpet group ranges from the piccolo trumpet—with the highest register in the brass family—to the bass trumpet, pitched one octave below the standard ...
er and composer, leader of
Jazz Celula New York.
References
External links
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Laco Deczi po roce opět vystoupí v Béčku (Deník)
Wegbereiter des Bebop in Tschechien: Laco Deczi und seine Band "Celula" (Czech Radio)
1938 births
21st-century trumpeters
living people
Slovak expatriates in the United States
Slovak jazz musicians
Slovak trumpeters
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