www.ondrejpivec.com A new Czech project was launched in the spring of 2005. This exciting new group is composed by young but well respected and established musicians. Organic Quartet plays original music inspired by contemporary giants such as Kurt Rosenwinkel, Sam Yahel, Peter Bernstein, Brad Mehldau, and Wayne Shorter. The band is also influenced by great icons from other musical genres including Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Ray Charles, and The Beatles.
A new Czech project was launched in the spring of 2005. This exciting new group is composed by young but well respected and established musicians. Organic Quartet plays original music inspired by contemporary giants such as Kurt Rosenwinkel, Sam Yahel, Peter Bernstein, Brad Mehldau, and Wayne Shorter. The band is also influenced by great icons from other musical genres including Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Ray Charles, and The Beatles.
Organic Quartet's musicality stems from traditional roots but definitely carries a modern taste. Even though Organic Quartet has been together for a little under two years, they have established themselves as one of the favorite uprising jazz bands with their energetic live shows selling out clubs across the Czech Republic and beyond (FIAP Jean Monnet Paris, Jazz Club St. Germain Paris, Kunstfabrik Schlott Berlin and more).
Most of the band members are students of the Jaroslav Je?ek Jazz College. The band members are: Tomáš Hobzek on drums which also is a member of the city Opera Orchestra, Libor Šmoldas on guitar who recently received a grant to study at Berklee College of Music in Boston. Jakub Dole?al on saxophone a popular instrumentalist also touring with the European jazz youth orchestra. And finally the heart of Organic Quartet led by Ond?ej Pivec on Hammond, the 24 year old charismatic and promising talent who in his young age has caught the attention of National and International critics. In 2005 Pivec was named ?Best soloist of the year? by the Phillips International Jazz Festival committee. The following year after recording their first album entitled Don't Get Ideas which was hailed by critics, Pivec was elected ?Organist of the month? for October 2006 by International archives for jazz organ.
Pivec started off on classical piano, but soon turned to jazz. Before he was twenty he switched from piano to Hammond organ. Since then he has taken lessons from the legendary English Hammond player Mike Carr and an Italian organ virtuoso, Albert Marsico. While admiring organists such as Sam Yahel and Larry Young, Pivec has already created his own original voice. Using his left hand, he creates very strong and agile organ bass lines with unexpected sureness and virtuosity. As a leader or a sideman Ond?ej Pivec has toured all over the Czech Republic as well as abroad, (SemperOper Dresden accompanying Christian Rover, Turkey as a member of the Yvonne Sanchez Brazilian Groove band supporting Billy Cobbham's Culture Mix Band, St. Germain club in Paris, Kunstfabrik in Berlin, Romanian tour with Organic Quartet and soon to appear in London.
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