The jazz pianist, composer and arranger Emil Viklicky is celebrating his 75th birthday. This re-edition reflects the prolific, versatile Moravia-born artist's penchant for folk music, transformed into pieces for trio plus special guests. The double-bassist Frantisek Uhlir and the drummer Cyril Zelenak have joined forces with other superb instrumentalists, the violinist Jiri Pavlica (70 this year), the cimbalom player Milan Malina, the saxophonist Frantisek Kop, and the singers Iva Bittova (65 this year) and the legendary Vera Domincova. Nine melodious compositions, one of them brand-new, are presented by stellar musicians and adorned by outstanding vocals, which at the socially and musically exciting time of the first release, in 1991, were not paid the attention they richly deserve. The music still comes across as fresh, inspired and inspiring, as clearly attested to by the current CD/LP re-issue, containing retrospective texts and, what is more, featuring photographs on the graphically compelling cover. Moravian folk music as performed by gifted, extraordinarily sensitive artists.