Laco Deczi

Trumpetist, composer and band member Laco Déczi was born in 1938 in the village of Bernolakovo (not far from Bratislava), Slovakia. In the sixties, he was a member of Karel Velebný's band S+HQ. In the seventies, he recorded his solo album Sentimental Trumpet with string instruments. As a soloist, he was a member of the orchestra during the recording of the album Jazz Goes To Beat by Václav Zahradník. At the end of 1967, he founded his own band, Jazz Celula, and from the beginning of the seventies he was a member of JOCR - Jazz Orchestra of the Czechoslovak Radio.

Laco performed in the United States with a great number of great jazz musicians, such as Elvin Jones, Bill Watrous, Junior Cook, Dave Weckl, Sonny Costanzo and more. He has also lived in the USA since 1986.