Peter Lipa - The most important person in slovak jazz. Singer, composer, promoter, speaker, manager of jazz life. For many years (25) he has been the promoter of european festival Bratislava jazz days. In the charts of International jazz federation magazine Jazz Forum was he in the 80-ties regularly placed in the top 5 of the european jazz singers. His roots are blues, soul and classical mainstream. He is flexibile and has a perfect stylish orientation. His range starts from classical jazz standards and dixieland thru´ latin, jazz chanson and ends with spirituals, funk or rock.The singers he feels mostly influenced by are Jimmy Rushing, Ray Charles, Al Jarreau, Joe Cocker or Bobby McFerrin. He is a spontanious improvizing type of singer. Presently he came to an overstylish songwriting and works with the best slovak lyricists.

Struny (1963-66)
In this band played the students of architekture and technical university. Daniel Winter - guitar, Bruno Beiszetzer - bass, Lubo Dolinský - drums, and guitarist Rasto Vacho, with whom Lipa worked for many years, after the band split up.

Istopolitana (1967)
Another student band, here he started to sing songs of Ray Charles, rhytm & blues and soul. Personel: Ervin Padusicky - trombone (leader), John Turi-Nagy - sax,clarinet, Rasto Vacho - guitar, Tono Vičan - drums, Andrej Šebo - bass, Ivan Rupeldt - piano

Blues Five (1968-69)
Peter Koren - keyboards, Rasto Vacho - guitar, Dusan Hajek - drums, Fedor Letnan - bass, thru’ this timeperiod some of the musicians have changed Miro Sebo - bass, Jaro Filip - keyboards, Jano Lehotsky - keyboards, Ivan Nagy - trumpet, Milan Tataj - sax, Dusan Valihora - bass and others. In 1968 on the 2. Prague beat festival the band won the breakthrouhgh price. In 1998 was comeback of this band in original combination with Dusan Valihora on bass.

Gustav Offerman Orchestra (1969-71)
Orchestra in which Peter Lipa was singer and a guitarist. Personel: G.Offerman - bandleader, F. Mozi - bass, J.Vizvari - piano, L.Horsky - trumpet, D.Huscava - sax, G. Sustekova - singer.

Revival Jazz Band (1972-77)
Pioneers of revival movement in Czechoslovakia. Lipa came to the band after leaving the Offerman orchestra.The band combined traditional and modern sound, comparing to english dixieland it had more swing and blues. Revival Jazz Bandplayed a number of concerts all around the Europe. Personel : Anton Rakicky - banjo, Stefan Popluhar - drums, Milos Paska - bass, Milan Vasica - trumpet, Vlado Vizar- trompbone, Jaroslav Cervenka - saxophone, keyboards.

Hej (1977-79)
Proffesional band playing dance music . A. Sebo - trumpet, M. Sebo - bass, P. Szapu - drums, V. Volny - ts, P. Koranda - guitar, V. Eckstein - piano.

Combo Petra Lipu (1977-90)
Peter Breiner - piano, Stanislav Herko / Vladimir Kulhanek - bass, Cyril Zelenák - drums, Onrej Konrad - harmonica. Remembrance of this is LP Moanin’ (1984). At the end of 90-ties Lipa started to work with younger musicians. Boris Urbanek (leader of the band TUTU), Andrej Seban and other well known instrumentalists (Jan Fabricky - drums, Anton Jaro - bass, Juraj Bartos - trumpet, Karol Lago - saxophone, Miroslav Binder - Keyboards). Lipa started to play pop jazz or funk jazz, as you can hear it on the album That’s the way it is (1988). Later he continued to work with Andrej Šeban.

Lipa - Andršt Blues Band (1980-86)
This popular band was loved by both, rock and jazz audience at the same time by combining electric blues with jazz and funk. They were welcomed in all festivals (not just in Czechoslovakia). Blues Band recorded two albums, but the power of this band comes from the live performances. Personel: L. Andrst - guitar, V. Kulhanek - bass, Ondrej Konrad - harmonica, J. Helesic - drums, J Kublik -saxophone.

Duo with Peter Breiner
1978-1992) regural concerts in theater Studio S called P + P= Jazz (Opening 11.9.1984). Several TV and radio performances. In 1997 came out the Boogie Up CD (Polygram/Emarcy), which recaptures this timeperiod of their collaboration. Peter Breiner - piano (since 1992 lives in Toronto).

T + R Band (1986 - 1995)
This band was made bytwo former revival bands, Nový tradicionál and Revival Jazz Band. Except the standard dixieland repertoire the band was aiming for swing, arangements of classical music, rock&roll, blues and others. This ensuredattention of the audience.They often played in foreign countries (Netherlands, Germany, Spain, Cuba, Algeria, Greece, Switzerland, USA and many others). But the thing they were famous for was regular thursdays (15 years) in beerpub Stará Sladovňa - Mamut, what became a cult tradicion. Personel : Anton Rakicky - banjo, Alojz Bouda / Pavol Bodnár - piano, Fedor Freso / Stanislav Herko - bass, Stefan “Pito“ Popluhar / Karol Suchan - bicie, Juraj Lehotsky - trumpet, Vladimir Vizar - trombone, Jaroslav „Country“ Cervanka - clarinet, alto saxophone.

Spirituals
Originaly it was made only as a special projekt but later it developed into a band, and recording of a CD. Personel: Peter Lipa- lead vocal, Katarina Korcek - lead vocal and back up vocals, Sona Norisova, Helena Krajciova - back up vocals, Andrej Seban - guitar, Pavol Bodnar - piano, Andrej Sebo - double bass, Cyril Zelenak - drums, Frantisek Karnok - trombone. From time to time the personel changes and an Boston saxophonist Peter Cardarelli joins the band.

Peter Lipa Band (1997-98)
After leaving T + R Band. Personel: Juraj Lehotský - Trumpet , Dusan Huscava- saxophone, Frantisek Karnok- trombone, Andrej Sebo - Bass, Palo Bodnár - Piano, Cyril Zelenak/ Stanislav Cvanciger - drums.

Lipa - Šeban Band (1997-98)
Band made together with guitarist Andrej Seban.This band consist of first class musicians. Pianist - Juraj Tatár, bassist- Martin Gaspar and drummer - Marcel Buntaj.

Lipa - Tatar Buntaj Gaspar Zacek (1999 - till now)
In 1999 Andrej Seban leaves the Lipa - Seban band and saxophone player Michal Zacek from Ostrava joins the band. The band is renamed to Peter Lipa / Tatar, Buntaj, Gaspar, Zacek (Peter Lipa / TBGZ)

Gabriel Jonáš feat. Peter Lipa (1999)
Gabriel Jonas - piano, Juraj Kalasz - double bass, Marian Sevcik - drums.

Visegrad Blues Band (2004)
This band, it could be claimed, is proof that politics can have a positive effect in music. The Visegrad Blues Band is made up of a collection of very well known musicians from the area known as the 'Visegrad Four'ie. The Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland and Hungary. The band is fronted by the unique Slovak singer Peter Lipa and Polish guitar wizard, Leszek Cichonski. This is complemented by solos from Zbygnief Jakub for Poland on keyboards and Czech harmonica player, Ondřej Konrád. The rhythm section, drummer Janos Solti and bass player Egon Poka, is Hungarian with its roots in the legendary groups Locomotiv GT and HoBo Blues Band. The repertoire of this, more or less occassional, ensemble is made up mainly of original arrangements of Blues standards plus a few of Cichonski's own instrumental numbers. According to Ondřej Konrád the main purpose of Visegrad Blues Band is as a get-together for a bunch of musicians who don't usually play together.

Except this he worked with these musicians :
Gabriel Jonas, Emil Viklicky, Ladislav Gerhardt, Milan Svoboda, Peter Breiner, Dežo Ursiny and Pavel Danek (studio band Burciak). He played with the band TUTU and worked with the theater ensemble Prak.