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Karel Vlach
Karel Vlach is credited on 721 releases across 192 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1952–2024 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
721
Pressings credited
192
Albums
8
Decades active
2
In collections
Biography
Karel Vlach (8 October 1911 in Prague – 26 February 1986 in Prague) was a Czech dance orchestra conductor and arranger. He founded his first orchestra in 1938. Many important composers, instrumentalists and arrangers of the Czech jazz scene gradually went through his band. In 1947-48 Vlach's orchestra cooperated with the V+W Theatre (former Osvobozené divadlo). He recorded prolifically with Supraphon and his output includes both light classical and orchestral as well as jazz and pop arrangements for big band with strings. He also arranged and conducted many Czech film scores from 1940 to 1980. He launched the singing careers of Czech artists Yvetta Simonová (whom he married) and Milan Chladil in 1958. He and his musical colleagues Dalibor Brázda and Gustav Brom also arranged and recorded many titles for British singer Gery Scott in the late 1950s, mostly from what is now termed the American Songbook series. Many of these titles are now collector's items.
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Credited work
721 releases · 192 albums · active 1952–2024
- Performance · 771
- Other credits · 110
Studios: Supraphon Studios · Studio Dejvice · Mozarteum · Československý Rozhlas
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Frequent collaborators
- Various
- Karel Vlach Se Svým Orchestrem
- Milan Chladil
- Karel Gott
- Yvetta Simonová
- Gery Scott
- Josef Laufer
- Karel Vlach And His Orchestra
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