Jaromír Honzák is a double bassist, composer and teacher. He was born in 1959 in Litoměřice and graduated from the Teplice conservatory in 1982. In the 1980s he co-founded the band Naima, and in 1989 he received a scholarship to Berklee College of Music. He has played with Bratři Ebenové for many years and works with Iva Bittová and her Čikori. His regular band consists of Martin Novák, Vít Křišťan, Luboš Soukup and David Dorůžka; on Animal Music he has released a series of records from A Question to All Your Answers (2007) to The Blues of a String Hanging in the Wind (2024). He has won five jazz Anděl awards, and since 2011 he has headed the jazz department at HAMU. On Amplión Records he plays in the band Phoenix (Phoenix, 2015; Live at Divadlo 29, 2019) and on Štěpánka Balcarová’s album O ztracené vodě (2025). More at jaromirhonzak.com.
