Jakub Zitko

After graduating from the conservatory (field of composition) he worked in many musical groups and projects. He led his own avant-garde-jazz orchestra NUO, focused exclusively on original compositions. Their debut album Multimusic Minibigband was nominated for the Anděl award in the jazz category for 2004. The second album Dixie and the Gang also received very good reviews from experts and the public.

He is a member of the group MUFF, which has released two albums so far and is a significant phenomenon of the Czech jazz scene. Among other projects, it is possible to name e.g. Ondřej Konrád's Gumbo, Blues Session or What The Funk with English singer-songwriter Jamie Marshall.

He also collaborates, or previously collaborated, with singer David Koller, American guitarist Steve Walsh, with Chinese alternative singer Feng Yün Song, Chicago bluesmen Rene Trossman and Lorenzo Thompson, with electronic magician Floex, with soul singer Juwana Jenkins, -123 min., Katko Šarközi, etc. In recent years, together with Aneta Langerová, he has co-authored arrangements (DVD Pár míst) and songs (album Na Radosti and Dvé slunce).