The Bohemian Benevolent & Literary Association and GEORGE MRAZ MUSIC LLC are thrilled to present a celebratory night of free live music. Join us in NYC to kick off their European Tour. With gratitude ...

Add Us On i Make JazzTimes a preferred source and Google will show you more of our stories in Top Stories. George Mraz in 1996 (photo: Alan Nahigian) I came into the Mel Lewis Big Band in 1980, right ...

Years before arriving in Boston to attend what is now the Berklee College of Music, bassist George Mraz was drawn to jazz during his youth in Czechoslovakia when he heard Louis Armstrong one Sunday on ...

The exquisite sound of George Mraz’s bass suffuses this new release with deep rich colors. Mraz plays soul to soul-the sounds he produces coming from deep within and reaching the same place in the ...

In European jazz the assimilation of folkloric influences has become commonplace as the American vernacular—or more specifically the Great American Songbook—exerts less of a hold. Czech musicians ...