Tenor Battle at Reduta Jazz Club

Born in Cardiff, Wales, Osian Roberts took up the saxophone aged nine, and hasbeen pursuing a career as a jazz musician ever since. He studied at the RoyalAcademy of Music in London, and after graduating in 1998, performed with manyof the UK's foremost musicians, including Sir John Dankworth, Iain Ballamy, JimMullen, Mike Carr, and Peter Ind.More recently he's recorded with international jazz stars Cedar Walton, GeorgeMráz, Hod O'Brien and Peter Washington, and has four albums under his ownname on the Hard Bop Records label. He spends a lot of time on the road, andhas toured in over twenty five countries during his career, travelling as far asThailand and the U.S. to perform....

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Born in Cardiff, Wales, Osian Roberts took up the saxophone aged nine, and hasbeen pursuing a career as a jazz musician ever since. He studied at the RoyalAcademy of Music in London, and after graduating in 1998, performed with manyof the UK's foremost musicians, including Sir John Dankworth, Iain Ballamy, JimMullen, Mike Carr, and Peter Ind.More recently he's recorded with international jazz stars Cedar Walton, GeorgeMráz, Hod O'Brien and Peter Washington, and has four albums under his ownname on the Hard Bop Records label. He spends a lot of time on the road, andhas toured in over twenty five countries during his career, travelling as far asThailand and the U.S. to perform.
Since moving to the Czech Republic, Osian has also worked with many fine Czechmusicians, such as Najponk, Martin Šulc, František Uhlíř, Svatopluk Košvanec,Jan Kořínek, and Libor Šmoldas.
Osian Roberts + 2 is his new trio featuring two of Prague's most outstandingmusicians, bass virtuoso Petr Dvorský and drummer Martin Novák. The bandplays a mixture of original music and new arrangements of classic jazz standardsby the likes of Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk,and Billy Stayhorn.

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