Musical director, dramaturg, nightly radio storyteller - the father of Czech blues was born on 4 December 1942 in Královské Vinohrady to very young, musically inclined parents as the first-born. In his childhood he squeaked miserably and unmotivatedly on the violin. After going through puberty, he discovered Dixieland, the first gateway to the world of jazz and improvisation. Most of all, however, he met the wind instruments he loved all the rest of his life. After graduating from the eleventh grade, he worked as a digger at the courtyard party at the Rudý Letov factory. He studied at the Prague Conservatory from 1964 to 1968. He played alternately trombone, tuba, baritone saxophone, and in his fifty-sixth year he began to learn to play the cornet. Over the years he played Dixieland, rock and roll, rhythm and blues, had bands with his brother Peter called Hipps and Apollobeat, and guested in pop bands and music that is mostly called classical. He has lived in and for ASPM since 1984. All his life he has been composing, writing lyrics, arranging, provoking... ASPM-Amateur Association of Professional Musicians currently plays in the line-up: Jan Spaleny - piano, cornet, vocal Michal Gera - flugelhorn, trumpet, vocal Filip Spaleny - tuba, bass Filip Jenicek - drums Radek Krampl - vibraphone https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100063590596513

Originally a folk-blues trio, the trio has matured over the years and by the end of the last millennium into a crossover quintet. ASPM (Amateur Association of Professional Musicians) moves virtuosically between the genres of blues, jazz, gumbo, folk and by touching each other they create their own unmistakable expression. The shaft of ASPM is Jan Spálený - a musician-narrator, who is the author of most of the songs, a singer and a cornet and piano player. Every other member of the ASPM is a unique personality whose significance goes beyond not only the ASPM, but also the respective musical caucus in this country.