Composers

Jaroslav Jezek

Bibliography

Beckerman, Michael. "The Dark Blue Exile of Jaroslav Ježek." Music & Politics 2 (Summer 2008). Available online at http://www.music.ucsb.edu/projects/musicandpolitics/archive/2008-2/beckerman.pdf

Cinger, Frantisek. Stastne blues aneb z deniku Jaroslava Jezka. Praha (Happy Blues, or From the Diary of Jaroslav Ježek): BVD, 2006.

Hnatova, Katerina. "Jaroslav Ježek: co-creator of the Czech inter-war modern movement." Czech Music Quarterly 1 (2007). Available online at http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb074/is_/ai_n29394212?tag=artBody;col1

Holzknecht, Vaclav. Jaroslav Ježek. Praha: Horizont, 1982.

Holzknecht, Vaclav. Jaroslav Ježek & Osvobozene divadlo.(JJ and the Liberated Theater). Prague: SNKLHU, 1957.

Jaroslav Ježek. Collection of texts and correspondence. New York: Newyorsky denik, 1942.

Jaroslav Ježek. Dopisy z podzimu 1938 (Letters from the Fall of 1938). Prague: Vaclav Petr, 1948.

Löwenbach, Jan. "Czechoslovak Composers and Musicians in America." Musical Quarterly, 3 (1943): 324-326.

Löwenbach, Jan. "Jaroslav Ježek. Pokus o vyklad skladatelskeho typu." (JJ: An Attempt on the Explanation of Compositional Style)

Jaroslav Ježek. New York: Newyorsky denik, 1942. Pp. 9-25.

Mikota, Vaclav [Ed.]. Na pamet Jaroslava Jezka. (In Memoriam Jaroslav Ježek) Praha: Mikota, 1946.

Sobotka, Mojmir. "Ježek, Jaroslav," Cesky hudebni slovnik osob a instituci, February 2007 http://www.musicologica.cz/slovnik/hesla.php?op=heslo&hid=3514 (February 23, 2007).

Stale se mi zda, jako kdyz Te hledam. Dopisy Mile Ledererove. (It Always Seems to Me as if I’m Looking For You: Letters to Mila Lederova) Brno: Opus Musicum, 2006.

Trojanova, Jaromira. Jaroslav Ježek. Soupis dila z fondu SVK. With an introduction by Olga Jiranova. Brno: SVK, 1981.

Various resources:

Ježek, Jaroslav - this comprehensive dictionary entry by Mojmir Sobotka includes complete bibliography and discography [Czech Music Dictionary Online. Masaryk University] (in Czech)

Jaroslav Ježek - a bio by UNESCO (in English)

Jaroslav Ježek - a bio by Radio Prague (in English)

Jaroslav Ježek - a bio by Radio Prague (in French)

Jaroslav Ježek - a bio by the Friends of Jaroslav Ježek Society (in Czech)

Jaroslav Ježek - a bio by Prague Information Service (in Czech)

Jaroslav Ježek - a bio by Masaryk University [Avant-Garde Theatre Project] (in Czech)

Jaroslav Ježek - a bio by cestiskladatele.wz.cz (in Czech)

Jaroslav Ježek - a bio by Libri (in Czech)

Jaroslav Ježek - a filmography by Ceske filmove nebe (in Czech)

Jaroslav Ježek - a comprehensive exhibit on the composer presented by Jazz Section in Prague in 2001 (in Czech)

The Jaroslav Ježek Centenary Exhibit - an exhibit presented by the Czech Museum of Music at the occasion of the composer’s centennial anniversary (in Czech and English)

Jaroslav Ježek and Jazz - a brief history of Czech jazz by Antonin Truhlar (in English)

Jaroslav Ježek and Swing - from Wikipedia (in English)

Jaroslav Ježek and Popular Song - sample songs courtesy by Petr Simandl (in Czech)

Jan Werich and Jiří Voskovec: Founders of Liberated Theatre - by Radio Prague (in English)

Liberated Theatre by Ladislav Kyndl (in Czech)

Liberated Theatre by Masaryk University [Avant-Garde Theatre Project] (in Czech)

Room Painted in Blue Echoes - a documentary film about Jaroslav Ježek (in English)

Jaroslav Ježek’s grave in Prague - a photograph, courtesy of Czech Radio Archives Friends of Jaroslav Ježek Society (in Czech)