When on holiday recently I had the absolute pleasure of hearing these guys live. They are an outstanding unit and so authentic with their sound. Do look them up!
They are the ancestors of the 1920s revival movement in the early 1980s (Havelka, Bartos etc). When I was in Prague in the 1990s, I bought one of their CDs. Glorious!
The OPSO has been a bit ad hoc for years. Its glory days were with Ondrej Havelka in the early 1990s when it was a full-sized dance band. The full size band (or at least, its lavish budget) seemed to defect with Havelka to form the Melody Makers.
![California 1930s in color, San Pedro, Olympic Blvd [60fps, Remastered] w/sound design added](/img/n.gif)
They are the ancestors of the 1920s revival movement in the early 1980s (Havelka, Bartos etc). When I was in Prague in the 1990s, I bought one of their CDs. Glorious!
Thank you for this great performance and the great music!
Your countrymen always produce excellent musicians and jazz bands!
Spielen am 02.08. in Friedrichshafen am Kulturufer !
Wonderful! Many thanks for sharing!
Yeah!
Where’s the rest of the band??
This was a condensed unit so just the six of them for this concert :)
The OPSO has been a bit ad hoc for years. Its glory days were with Ondrej Havelka in the early 1990s when it was a full-sized dance band.
The full size band (or at least, its lavish budget) seemed to defect with Havelka to form the Melody Makers.