Career
Duba was one of the first musicians to play electric guitar in Czechoslovakia. During his career, he collaborated with important exponents of Czechoslovakian jazz and popular music He died on a concert tour in Mongolia.
During German occupation of Czechoslovakia Duba began to appear at stage as a guitarist with dance orchestras.
At the beginning of the 1960s he formed his own professional band. The ensemble used elements of jazz, rock and country in their compositions.
Karel Duba Ensemble was also the first Czechoslovakian music group experimenting with electric guitars. In the 1960s, Duba"s band accompanied popular Czechoslovakian singers, such as Josef Laufer, Karel Gott, Yvonne Přenosilová, Karel Hála, Hana Hegerová and Josef Zíma.
They also recorded vinyl records for a major Czechoslovak label Supraphon and performed on concert tours both in Czechoslovakia and abroad.
On 19 August 1968, the Karel Duba Ensemble, accompanied with other musicians, travelled to play in Mongolia. On 21 August, the group decided to visit the Monument to Soviet Liberators in Ulan Bator. According to his report, the brakes of the bus apparently failed in the upper part of a hill, and the bus began to back up to the left shoulder of the road.
Following that, the uncontrolled bus fell into an abyss.
