Laco Tropp

private lessons of percussion; playing in amateur dixieland bands in Košice; later dancer in the Lúčnica traditional folk music ensemble

professional musician – drummer

during his military service took part with a band in a national level of Army Creative Contest (Prague), met musicians from Prague (Hanuš Berka, Karel Svoboda etc.); cooperation with Laco Deczi

engagement in Otakar Rendl’s Prague Dance Orchestra

member of the SHQ of Karel Velebný and Jan Konopásek

member of the Reduta Quartet

member of Peter Herbolzheimer sextet in Nuernberg (Germany), extensively recording for Bavarian Radio

member of Mal Waldron’s trio (and quartet) in the Domicile club in Munich

cooperation in Laco Deczi’s album Pietoso (The Laco Déczi And Cellula Quintet featuring Laco Tropp”)

cooperation with Ladislav Gerhardt on the LP Dobre sme sa oženili

engagement in the Theatre club (Činoherní klub) (Prague) as a member of Petr Skoumal’s ensemble; member of Rudolf Dašek’s trio

return to Slovakia, position in a café orchestra in Bratislava

Czechoslovak Television Orchestra Prague

founded his own trio, playing in the then German Democratic Republic

obtained a permanent engagement in the Czech Republic (in a quartet with Štepán Markovič – sax)

member of Emil Vilický’s Trio in Prague