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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]]. Vitouš has since discussed his contentious departure from Weather Report with journalists, specifically regarding his relationship with Zawinul. [[Alphonso Johnson]], who replaced Vitouš, was himself replaced by the highly innovative and influential bassist [[Jaco Pastorius]]. In 1988 Vitouš moved back to Europe to focus on composing, but nonetheless continued to perform in festivals. 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]]. Vitouš has since discussed his contentious departure from Weather Report with journalists, specifically regarding his relationship with Zawinul. [[Alphonso Johnson]], who replaced Vitouš, was himself replaced by the highly innovative and influential bassist [[Jaco Pastorius]]. In 1988 Vitouš moved back to Europe to focus on composing, but nonetheless continued to perform in festivals.
 +==Discography==
-'''Selected discography:'''+===As leader===
-*Infinite Search (Mountain In The Clouds)+*1969: ''Infinite Search'' (aka ''Mountain in the Clouds'') ([[Embryo Records]]) with [[John McLaughlin discography|John McLaughlin]], [[Joe Henderson]], [[Herbie Hancock]], [[Jack DeJohnette]] & [[Joe Chambers]]
-*Purple+*1970: ''Purple'' with John McLaughlin, [[Joe Zawinul]] & [[Billy Cobham]]
-*Magical Shepherd+*1976: ''[[Magical Shepherd]]'' with Onike, Herbie Hancock, Jack DeJohnette, [[James Gadson]] & [[Airto Moreira]]
-*Majesty Music+*1976: ''Majesty Music''
-*Miroslav ([[Freedom Records|Freedom]])+*1977: ''Miroslav'' ([[Freedom Records|Freedom]]) with [[Don Alias]]
-*Guardian Angels+*1978: ''Guardian Angels'' with [[Mabumi Yamaguchi]], [[John Scofield]], [[Kenny Kirkland]] & [[George Ohtsuke]]
-*First Meeting (ECM)+*1979: ''[[First Meeting (album)|First Meeting]]'' ([[ECM (record label)|ECM]]) with [[John Surman]], Kenny Kirkland & [[Jon Christensen]]
-*miroslav vitous group (ECM)+*1980: ''[[Miroslav Vitous Group]]'' (ECM) with John Surman, Kenny Kirkland & Jon Christensen
-*Journey's end (ECM)+*1982: ''[[Journey's End (album)|Journey's End]]'' (ECM) with John Surman, [[John Taylor (jazz)|John Taylor]] & Jon Christensen
-*Emergence (ECM)+*1985: ''[[Emergence (Miroslav Vitous album)|Emergence]]'' (ECM) solo
-*Star (ECM)+*1992: ''[[Atmos (album)|Atmos]]'' (ECM) with [[Jan Garbarek]]
-*Atmos (ECM)+*2003: ''[[Universal Syncopations]]'' (ECM) with Jan Garbarek, [[Chick Corea]], John McLaughlin & Jack DeJohnette
-*Universal Syncopations (ECM)+*2007: ''[[Universal Syncopations II]]'' (ECM) with [[Bob Mintzer]], [[Gary Campbell]], [[Bob Malach]], [[Randy Brecker]], [[Daniele di Bonaventura]], [[Vesna Vasko-Caceres]], [[Gerald Cleaver (musician)|Gerald Cleaver]] & [[Adam Nussbaum]]
-*Universal Syncopations 2 (ECM)+*2009: ''[[Remembering Weather Report]]'' (ECM) with [[Franco Ambrosetti]], Gary Campbell, Gerald Cleaver & [[Michel Portal]]
 + 
 +===As sideman===
 +{{expand section|date=February 2011}}
 +'''With [[Weather Report]]'''
 +*''[[Weather Report (1971 album)|Weather Report]]'' (1971)
 +*''[[I Sing the Body Electric (album)|I Sing the Body Electric]]'' (1972)
 +*''[[Live in Tokyo (Weather Report album)|Live in Tokyo]]'' (1972)
 +*''[[Sweetnighter]]'' (1973)
 +*''[[Mysterious Traveller]]'' (1974)
 + 
 +'''With [[Chick Corea]]'''
 +*''[[Now He Sings, Now He Sobs]]'' (1968)
 +*''[[Trio Music]]'' (ECM, 1981)
 +*''[[Trio Music Live in Europe]]'' (ECM, 1984)
 +*''[[Rendezvous in New York]]'' (Stretch Records, 2003)
 + 
 +'''With [[Larry Coryell]]'''
 +*''Spaces'' (1970) with [[John McLaughlin (musician)|John McLaughlin]], [[Billy Cobham]], & [[Chick Corea]]
 + 
 +'''With [[Jack DeJohnette]]'''
 +*''[[The DeJohnette Complex]]'' (Milestone, 1969)
 + 
 +'''With [[Jan Garbarek]]'''
 +*''[[StAR (album)|StAR]]'' (ECM, 1991)
 + 
 +'''With [[Stan Getz]]'''
 +*''[[The Song Is You (Stan Getz album)|The Song Is You]]'' (1969)
 + 
 +'''With [[Terje Rypdal]]'''
 +*''[[Terje Rypdal / Miroslav Vitous / Jack DeJohnette]]'' (ECM, 1978)
 +*''[[To Be Continued (Terje Rypdal album)|To Be Continued]]'' (ECM, 1981)
 + 
 +'''With [[Sadao Watanabe (musician)|Sadao Watanabe]]'''
 +*''[[Round Trip (Sadao Watanabe album)|Round Trip]]'' (1974)
 + 
 +'''With [[Laszlo Gardony]]'''
 +*''The Secret'' (Antilles, 1988)
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Miroslav Ladislav Vitouš, born 6 December 1947) is a Czech jazz bassist who was born in Prague. He began the violin at age six, and started playing the piano at age ten, and bass at fourteen. As a young man in Europe, Vitouš was a competitive swimmer. One of his early music groups was the Junior Trio with his brother Alan on drums and fellow Czech luminary-to-be Jan Hammer on keyboards. He studied music at the Prague Conservatory (under František Pošta), subsequently winning an international music contest in Vienna, earning him a scholarship to the Berklee College of Music in Boston.

Vitouš's virtuoso jazz bass playing has led critics to place him in the same league as Scott LaFaro, Dave Holland, Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen and Christian McBride. A representative example of Vitouš's double bass playing is Now He Sings, Now He Sobs (1968), with Chick Corea on piano and Roy Haynes on drums. This album shows his strong rhythmic sense, innovative walking lines, and intensity and abandon as an improviser.

His first album as a leader, Infinite Search, re-released with minor changes as Mountain in the Clouds featured several key figures from the then-budding jazz fusion movement: John McLaughlin, Herbie Hancock, Jack DeJohnette, and (slightly) elder statesman Joe Henderson.

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. Vitouš has since discussed his contentious departure from Weather Report with journalists, specifically regarding his relationship with Zawinul. Alphonso Johnson, who replaced Vitouš, was himself replaced by the highly innovative and influential bassist Jaco Pastorius. In 1988 Vitouš moved back to Europe to focus on composing, but nonetheless continued to perform in festivals.

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  • The Secret (Antilles, 1988)


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