Miroslav Vitous (born 6 December 1947) is a Czech jazz bassist. December 6 is the 340th day (341st on leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1947 was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Jazz is a musical art form characterized by blue notes, syncopation, swing, call and response, polyrhythms, and improvisation. ... A bassist is a musician who plays a bass guitar or double bass. ...

Vitous was born in Prague and studied at Prague Conservatory and Berklee College of Music. Prague (Praha in Czech) is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic. ... Berklee College of Music, founded in 1945, is an independent music college in Boston, Massachusetts with many prominent faculty, staff, alumni, and visiting artists. ...

Vitous is a virtuoso, and plays jazz bass, from a technical standpoint, arguably as well as anyone in the history of the music. (Some competitors include Ray Brown, Scott LaFaro, Dave Holland and Christian McBride.) A virtuoso is a musician who has attained the highest level of skill in a fine art, especially at playing a specific instrument or singing. ... Raymond Matthews (Ray) Brown (October 13, 1926 - July 2, 2002) was an American jazz bassist. ... Rocco Scott LaFaro (April 3, 1936 - July 6, 1961) was one of the most influential jazz bassists of the 20th Century. ... Dave Holland (born October 1, 1946) is a jazz bassist and composer. ... Christian McBride (born May 31, 1972, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is a jazz bassist. ...

A representative example of Vitous's double bass playing is Now He Sings, Now He Sobs (1968), with Chick Corea on piano and Roy Haynes on drums. Listeners to that album will notice his strong rhythmic sense, his innovative walking lines, and his intensity and abandon as an improviser. Now He Sings, Now He Sobs is a highly influential jazz piano trio album by Chick Corea, released March 14, 1968. ... Chick Corea on the cover of sheet music book Chick Corea Collection Armando Anthony Chick Corea (born June 12, 1941) is an American jazz pianist/keyboardist and composer who is arguably best known for his work during the 1970s in the genre of jazz fusion, although his contributions to straight... This article is about the modern musical instrument. ... Roy Owen Haynes (born March 13, 1925) is one of the most recorded drummers in jazz. ... For other kinds of drums, see drum (disambiguation). ...

His first album as a leader, Infinite Search, re-released with minor changes as Mountain In The Clouds featured the cream of the budding jazz fusion movement: John McLaughlin, Herbie Hancock, Jack DeJohnette, and (slightly) elder statemen Joe Henderson and Joe Chambers. John McLaughlin (born January 4, 1942), also Mahavishnu John McLaughlin, is a jazz fusion guitar player from Yorkshire in England. ... Herbie Hancock Herbert Jeffrey Hancock (born April 12, 1940) is a jazz pianist and composer from Chicago, Illinois, USA. Hancock is one of jazz musics most important and influential pianists and composers. ... Jack DeJohnette (born 1942) is a drummer and pianist, recognized as one of the foremost jazz musicians since the 1960s. ...

A founding member of the group Weather Report, he has worked with Jan Hammer, Freddie Hubbard, Miles Davis, Chick Corea, Wayne Shorter, Joe Zawinul, and Jan Garbarek. Weather Report was a seminal jazz fusion band of the 1970s and 1980s. ... Jan Hammer (born 17 April 1948) is a composer and musician. ... Frederick Dewayne Hubbard (born on April 7, 1938, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA) is an African American jazz trumpeter. ... Miles Davis (May 26, 1926 – September 28, 1991), one of the most influential and innovative musicians of the twentieth century, was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer. ... Chick Corea on the cover of sheet music book Chick Corea Collection Armando Anthony Chick Corea (born June 12, 1941) is an American jazz pianist/keyboardist and composer who is arguably best known for his work during the 1970s in the genre of jazz fusion, although his contributions to straight... Wayne Shorter (born August 25, 1933 in Newark, New Jersey) is an American jazz composer and saxophonist. ... Categories: Musician stubs | 1932 births | Austrian musicians | Jazz musicians | Jazz pianists ... Jan Garbarek (born March 4, 1947) is a Norwegian saxophonist. ...

Vitous's departure from Weather Report was not entirely amicable, which he has since discussed openly with various journalists. Apparently his relationship with Zawinul was/is not good. The bassist who took Vitous's place in Weather Report was Alphonso Johnson. Alphonso Johnson (born 1951) is a jazz musician reknown for being one of the best electric bass players of the early 70s. ...

As a young man and while still in Europe, Vitous had some significant success in competitive swimming. World map showing location of Europe A satellite composite image of Europe Europe is geologically and geographically a peninsula, forming the westernmost part of Eurasia. ... Swimming is the method by which humans (or other animals) move themselves through water. ...