Bratislava Hot Serenaders - Cotton Club

The Bratislava Hot Serenaders orchestra belongs among the few strictly-oriented music bands in Slovakia. Its eighteen enthusiastic players have met for thirteen seasons without an interruption and its style remains unchanged. What glue keeps them together during our present turbulent economic period? The glue is their love of traditional music. They devote all their free time to "Hot Jazz" or "Sweet and Dance Music" which arrived in Europe at the end of the Twenties from America. In its homeland, the music has already been recorded, so the orchestra´s boys search for old shellac gramophone records, listen to them till early morning and note-by-note reconstruct the old sweet melodies and imitate their arrangements. After hours of practicing, they dress themselves into traditional costumes, put the brilliantine on their hair and start playing their vintage instruments and singing into a lone microphone.
Since 1992 they continue entertaining their unbelievably loyal and constantly growing audience. Their mutual friendship and love of entertainment results in a sort of obsession. They often visit each other and play for themselves at informal occasions. Even then they function at full throttle, playing with the drive and spirit so important to this style of music. The Serenaders have yet another love. It is also music - Slovak music. It was played and recorded in Bratislava and Prague in Thirties and Forties and is focused around one name extremely popular in thatperiod: František Krištof Veselý. The doyen of Slovak pop-singers made famous many melodies which are now adopted by BHS. The Bratislava Hot Serenaders are well-established abroad as well. In 1994 the orchestra won the Sidney d´Or Prix at the Grand Festival of Music of 20´s and 30´s in Saint Raphael, France. They regularly appear in Germany, Austria, Czech Republic and other countries. They have recorded four CDs: "Prvé Rendez-Vous (The First Rendez-Vous)" (1997), "Cotton Club Stomp" (2003), "Ja som optimista (I´m An Optimist)" (2001) and "Celý svet sa mračí (The Entire World Is Cloudy)" (2002). Songs on the last two CDs are performed by Milan Lasica, one of the most popular Slovak actors and singers. Both CDs became bestsellers - the first one winning a platinum CD, the second winning a gold CD. Recently, selected songs from both CDs have been recorded for the first Slovak music DVD entitled "Milan Lasica & The Bratislava Hot Serenaders". Their successful cooperation also led to a new musical-styled performance in the Štúdio L&S theatre. In the show "Ja som optimista", the songs and melodies are accompanied by stories and anecdotes from old Bratislava

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• Hot-Jazz

[stampada]

Wow, what a great band! The arrangement is period-authentic and compelling; the ensemble work is flawless; and the improvised solos are inventive and exciting! This musical aggregation is one of the most polished, professional, and enjoyable that I've ever experienced!

[gabozaboo]

Thank´s a lot. :)

[Idelia412]

This is music!!!!! The music today is nothing but two notes played over and over or several chords. THe lyrics are nothing but trash. I cannot understand how RAP got to be so big!!!!! People today have no taste!!!!!

[Sledgeize]

this is beautiful...love the music

[Lengo67]

This is available at amazon.com in mp3 or CD format. What are you waiting for? Vote for it with your money!

[tdub1941]

@idasynco

Better late than never!

RJM Tom

[idasynco]

@tdub1941 Well, I just heard this and was going to send it to you...but I am off by 4 years I guess! haha

[favre4ever1995]

@Idelia412 I totally agree. Rap has made 0 progression in musical style over the past 15 to 20 years where it as been a prominent popular music form. Think about the progressions that swing, jazz, and other forms of music make periodically over that time frame. 20 years in jazz (and im just picking one time frame here from about '37-'57) saw the evolution of jazz manouche, swing's heyday, the dawn of bebop, cool and sooooooo much more.

[annanoli]

@stampada the solos are the exact transcription of the original ones.

[theHellzapoppin]

@gregoryagogo waw ! it's too wonderfull ! (we have to speak about it...

[theHellzapoppin]

@gregoryagogo waw ! it's too wonderfull !

[theHellzapoppin]

mmmmmmmmmmm :D