Jan Kořínek is a double bassist, bass guitarist and teacher. He graduated from HAMU and the Japanese Toho Gakuen Orchestra Academy. From 2004 to 2010 he was a member of the double bass section of the Czech Radio Symphony Orchestra, then played in the chamber orchestra Berg. Alongside classical music he is active on the jazz and improvised music scene, performs regularly with Ondřej Kabrna, Najponk and Adam Tvrdý and worked as an accompanist with the chanson singer Chantal Poullain. He leads the Jan Kořínek Trio with the pianist Stanislav Mácha and the drummers Petr Nohavica and Jan Linhart, in which the double bass also takes on the role of a melodic instrument; the trio follows in the footsteps of Paul Chambers, Wynton Kelly and Bill Evans. He teaches double bass and improvisation at the Jaroslav Ježek Conservatory and College. On Amplión Records he plays bass on František Kop’s album Concrete Dreams (2024) in a trio with the drummer Pavel Zbořil.
