DVD Milan Lasica & The Bratislava Hot Serenaders

DVD Milan Lasica & Bratislava Hot Serenaders

The Bratislava Hot Serenaders orchestra belongs among the few strictly-oriented music bands in Slovakia. Its eighteen enthusiastic players play Hot Jazz or Sweet and Dance Music which arrived in Europe at the end of the Twenties from America. The Serenaders have yet another love. It is also music - Slovak music. It was played and recorded in Bratislava and Prague in Thirties and Forties and is focused around one name extremely popular in that period: Frantisek Kristof Vesely. The doyen of Slovak pop-singers made famous many melodies which are now adopted by Serenaders.

The Bratislava Hot Serenaders are well-established abroad as well. In 1994 the orchestra won the Sidney d´Or Prix at the Grand Festival of Music of 20´s and 30´s in Saint Raphael, France. They regularly appear in Germany, Austria, Czech Republic and other countries. They have recorded four CDs: Prve Rendez-Vous (The First Rendez-Vous) (1997), Cotton Club Stomp (2003), Ja som optimista (I´m An Optimist) (2001) and Cely svet sa mraci (The Entire World Is Cloudy) (2002). Songs on the last two CDs are performed by Milan Lasica, one of the most popular Slovak actors and singers. Both CDs became bestsellers - the first one winning a platinum CD, the second winning a gold CD. Recently, selected songs from both CDs have been recorded for the first Slovak music DVD entitled Milan Lasica & The Bratislava Hot Serenaders.