Jan Hrubý
{{Short description|Czech musician (born 1948)}}
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| birth_place = Prague, Czechoslovakia
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| instrument = Violin, bass guitar
| genre = {{hlist|Rock|celtic rock|folk rock|blues rock}}
| occupation = Musician
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Jan Hrubý (born 3 December 1948{{Cite web|url=http://www.discogs.com/artist/Jan+Hrub%C3%BD|title = Jan Hrubý|website = Discogs}}) is a Czech rock violinist known primarily for playing with the bands Etc..., Framus Five, and Kukulín.
Life and career
Hrubý was born in Prague in 1948. Between 1964 and 1968, he studied violin at the Prague Conservatory,{{cite web|url=http://www.janhruby.eu/biografie|title=Biografie - Jan Hrubý - Kukulín|accessdate=7 May 2012|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090711175611/http://www.janhruby.eu/biografie|archivedate=11 July 2009}} then went on to play bass and later violin in the group Reciprocity.{{cite web|title=Houslista Jan Hrubý: Mám štěstí, že mě živí to, co mě baví |url=https://idobnet.cz/houslista-jan-hruby-mam-stesti-ze-me-zivi-to-co-me-bavi |website=idobnet.cz |date=17 March 2015 |access-date=10 April 2022 |language=cs |trans-title=Violinist Jan Hrubý: I'm Lucky to Be Fed by What I Enjoy}} From 1975 until Vladimír Mišík's performance ban by the Communist government in 1982, he played with the singer's band Etc....{{cite web|title=Nová Vlna Se Starým Obsahem (23.3.1983) |url=https://www.moderni-dejiny.cz/clanek/nova-vlna-se-starym-obsahem-23-3-1983 |website=moderni-dejiny.cz |date=28 November 2013 |access-date=10 April 2022 |language=cs |trans-title=New Wave with Old Content (23.3.1983)}}{{cite web|title=Vladimír Mišík |url=https://www.ceskatelevize.cz/lide/vladimir-misik/ |website=ceskatelevize.cz |date= |access-date=10 April 2022 |language=cs}} In 1983, he joined Luboš Andršt's Blues Band and a year later, he became a member of Michal Prokop's Framus 5 and significantly influenced the album Kolej Yesterday.{{cite web|url=http://www.magazlin.cz/10/janhruby.htm|title=Jan Hrubý - housle bigbítové i dudácké|date=|publisher=|accessdate=7 May 2012|archive-date=4 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304093829/http://www.magazlin.cz/10/janhruby.htm|url-status=dead}} When Mišík was able to return to the stage in 1985, Hrubý rejoined Etc..., though only for a year and a half, before returning to Framus 5.
Since 1987, he has also played with Prokop and Andršt in an acoustic trio formerly known as Nu-Trio.
Hrubý has also been a member of Čundrgrund with Mišík, Vladimír Merta, and Petr Kalandra, as well as collaborating with Dagmar Andrtová-Voňková and recording with Jazz Q, Marsyas, C&K Vocal, Hana Hegerová, and others. In the 1990s, he was influenced by celtic music and founded the group Kukulín.
In 2012, Hrubý took part in Merta's revived project Dobrá úroda, recording the album Nikdo v zemi nikoho.{{cite web|title=Dobrá úroda: Nikdo v zemi nikoho |url=https://www.supraphonline.cz/album/4195-nikdo-v-zemi-nikoho |website=supraphonline.cz |date= |access-date=10 April 2022 |language=cs}}
In January 2014, he released the album Společné světy with English harpist Sean Barry.{{cite web|title=AUDIO: Klasik rockových houslí Jan Hrubý ke knize přidává nové album |url=https://www.idnes.cz/kultura/hudba/jan-hruby-ukazky.A140115_102934_hudba_ob |website=idnes.cz |date=15 January 2014 |access-date=10 April 2022 |language=cs |trans-title=Audio: Classic Rock Violinist Jan Hrubý Adds a New Album to His Repertoire}}
Partial discography
- Cesta na severozápad (1992)
- Arthur's Stone (Jan Hrubý, Peter Mustill, and Kukulín – 1993)
- Burning Rose (Jan Hrubý, Peter Mustill, and Kukulín – 1994)
- Černý ovce (Jan Hrubý, Michal Prokop, Petr Skoumal, Peter Mustill – 1997)
- Středozem (Jan Hrubý and Kukulín – 1998)
- The Best of… (Jan Hrubý and Kukulín – 2000)
- Stará vlna (Pastorální svita) (2000)
- Cesty… (2001)
- Mezidobí (2002)
- Silmarillion (Jan Hrubý and Kukulín – 2003)
- Unplugged – Live (Michal Prokop, Luboš Andršt, and Jan Hrubý – 2005)
- The Habit of Perfection (Maria Hoffman and Jan Hrubý – 2006)
- Včerejší Vydání (Vladimír Merta and Jan Hrubý – 2011)
- Nikdo v zemi nikoho (Dobrá úroda – 2012)
- Společné světy (Jan Hrubý and Sean Barry – 2014)
- 7 (Jan Hrubý and Kukulín – 2015)
- Příběhy v čase (2017)
- V rozpitých barvách (Radim Hladík, Jaroslav Hutka, Jan Hrubý, Petr Přibyl – 2017)
- S nebem to mám dobrý (Vladimír Mišík, Radim Hladík, and Jan Hrubý – 2017)
References
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Category:Czech male violinists
Category:21st-century Czech violinists