{"id":3738,"date":"2026-09-19T13:07:36","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T13:07:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ar.krivkastudio.cz\/band\/frantisek-kop-quartet\/"},"modified":"2026-10-03T00:15:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T00:15:12","slug":"frantisek-kop-quartet","status":"publish","type":"band","link":"https:\/\/amplionrecords.cz\/en\/band\/frantisek-kop-quartet\/","title":{"rendered":"Franti\u0161ek Kop Quartet"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"product\"><div class=\"product\"><p>The Franti\u0161ek Kop Quartet was formed at the beginning of 1995 for a&nbsp;performance at the Prague Spring festival and is one of the longest-running line-ups on the Czech jazz scene. It is led by the saxophonist, flautist and bass clarinettist Franti\u0161ek Kop, joined by Petr Mal\u00e1sek (piano, synthesizers), the bass guitarist Martin Lehk\u00fd and the drummer Pavel Zbo\u0159il. The repertoire is built on Kop&#8217;s and Mal\u00e1sek&#8217;s own compositions, which draw on blues, funk, Latin music and free jazz and bear traces of classic jazz-rock; the quartet does not shy away from standards and pieces by John Coltrane, Wayne Shorter or Thelonious Monk either. In 2020 Ampli\u00f3n Records released the album News of the Past, on which the guitarist Luk\u00e1\u0161 Mart\u00ednek guests. More at kopfrantisek.com.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"featured_media":3739,"template":"","class_list":["post-3738","band","type-band","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amplionrecords.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/band\/3738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amplionrecords.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/band"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amplionrecords.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/band"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amplionrecords.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amplionrecords.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}