Laco Déczi & Celula New York

Trumpetist, composer and bandleader Laco Déczi was born in 1938 in the village of Bernolakovo (not far from Bratislava), Slovakia. In the 1960s he was a member of Karel Velebný's band S+HQ and in the 1970s he recorded his solo album Sentimental Trumpet with string instruments. As a soloist, he was a member of the orchestra during the recording of Václav Zahradník's album Jazz Goes To Beat. 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 others. He then stayed in the United States and founded the band Celula New York, with which he performs.