Volume 35, Number 11 · June 30, 1988
Jamming the Jazz Section
By Josef Skvorecky
When the Jazz Section of the Czech Musicians' Union was put on trial in March 1987 and two of its leaders were jailed, there was some confusion in the West about what had actually happened. Was jazz being banned in Czechoslovakia? Was playing jazz the crime of Karel Srp and Vladimir Kouril, the main defendants at the trial?
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