Скачать или смотреть CZECH BAND: Anton Brousek / Vesnách / Okeh 17302 / 1926 / ‘Ještě kousek, pane Brousek’

Anton (Antonín) Brousek (1875-1950) was a Czech-American bandleader, born in Jáchymově and based in Chicago. After serving in the US army as a musician in the Spanish-American War, he led Brousek's Military Band (Brousková Vojenská Kapela), recording some 113 sides between 1915 and 1928 which were released on Columbia, Okeh, Odeon, and Vocalion. His band also accompanied Czech artists Václav Albrecht, Jaroslav Cimera, Mary Havelka and Rudolf Kraus on two dozen of their respective recordings in the 1920s.

Brousek’s band was prominent in the Chicago Czech community in the 1910s and 1920s, participating in numerous outdoor concerts, street parades and celebrations, one of which concluded with “a grand medley of Bohemian folk songs played by Brousek's Band, whose performance again proved that the band fully deserves its good reputation.” [Denni Hlasatel (Daily Herald) May 31, 1913]

Brousek reportedly also ran a music store, which later became a women’s goods store under his wife’s management. His obituary in the Baltimore Czech newspaper, Telegraf, points to his musicianship as well as his skill in selecting musicians for his band, which “distinguished itself by playing sharp marches, although it was also a master of waltzes.” At his concerts the “older compatriots remember the well-known slogan: ‘Just a little more, Mr. Brousek’ [‘Ještě kousek, pane Brousek’].”

[Vesnách (In the Villages), Anton Brousek, Okeh 17302, recorded 2/23/26, matrix 9505-A]
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