{"id":3613,"date":"2026-03-09T13:39:51","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T13:39:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ar.krivkastudio.cz\/artist\/kop\/"},"modified":"2026-10-03T00:13:19","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T00:13:19","slug":"kop","status":"publish","type":"artist","link":"https:\/\/amplionrecords.cz\/en\/artist\/kop\/","title":{"rendered":"Kop"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"product\"><div class=\"product\"><p>Franti\u0161ek Kop is a&nbsp;saxophonist, composer and teacher. He was born in 1959 in Prague, learned the clarinet from 1972 and from 1979 studied tenor saxophone and jazz improvisation with Karel Velebn\u00fd at the People&#8217;s Conservatory (today&#8217;s Jaroslav Je\u017eek Conservatory). In 1983 he co-founded the band Naima, which was voted best jazz group three times between 1987 and 1989. He has played with Emil Viklick\u00fd, in the band J.A.R. and in Petr Mal\u00e1sek&#8217;s band, and accompanied Hana Hegerov\u00e1 and Marta Kubi\u0161ov\u00e1. In 1995 he founded the Franti\u0161ek Kop Quartet, and in 1998 he was elected president of the Czech Jazz Society. He teaches at the Jaroslav Je\u017eek Conservatory. On Ampli\u00f3n Records he released the albums News of the Past (2020), Chillies (2022) and Concrete Dreams (2024). More at kopfrantisek.com.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"featured_media":3614,"template":"","artist-taxonomy":[],"class_list":["post-3613","artist","type-artist","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amplionrecords.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist\/3613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amplionrecords.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amplionrecords.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/artist"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amplionrecords.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amplionrecords.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist-taxonomy","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amplionrecords.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist-taxonomy?post=3613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}