Grammy-winning producer and musician Ondrej Pivec is coming back to his homeland after years overseas with the project""Greatest Hits 4000." It blends elements of genres like jazz, funk, gospel, hip-hop, and soul in the tradition of American music with a fresh twist. Accompanying the Czech jazz icon on the album are talented musicians - Jan Steinsdörfer, the keyboardist of the Czech music group Chinaski, Jan Jakubec, a bassist whose resume includes names like Lenka Dusilová and Raduza, and Filip Ernst, the drummer of Top Dream Company and DYK band. The album is based on Pivec's live performance at JazzFestBrno in the studios of Czech Television.

Maybe this is “Jazz according to Laurent Cugny.” Here he chooses some classic material — standards from Duke Ellington, Joe Zawinul, The Beatles, Michel Jonasz – and then introduces a few of his own compositions. The result is Zeitgeist, an album written in a universal language whose music traverses different periods and transcends melodies. Pianist, arranger, composer (and music lecturer), bandleader Laurent Cugny here conducts the best musicians France can offer, in a ten-piece orchestra whose instruments are played with precision and brilliance. Zeitgeist is masterfully electric, taking its colours from Cugny’s taste for the avant-garde at the dawn of the Seventies: it makes you think, and it gives you a kick. A jubilant record where Cugny shows a unique sense of melody, and his vision of jazz history… with a boundless joy in sharing his own definition of jazz. Augustin BONDOUX / Patrick FRÉMEAUX