Born 13 July 1945 in Prague. He graduated from the Conservatory in 1970. His first public jazz performance [was in] 1963 with Jiří Stivín and the group Jazztet at the Zábradlí Theater. In 1967 [he was awarded] Laureate of the Prague Jazz International Contest of Young soloists. He has played with: 1967 Karel Velebný SHQ the Karel Růžička Quartet Laco Deczi - Jazz Celulla, concerts at home and abroad, mainly [in] Geermany and Holland the Jiří Stivín Quartet--among other things Chicago`s 1991 Emil Viklický Quartet - mimo jiné Chicago 1991, Jazz Festival on Red See /Israel/ 1992 Gustav Brolm Big Band and many foreign ensembles

Josef Vejvoda performed in Czechoslovak Radio for 15 years from 1972 to 1987. In Točr* and Jočr* [he performed] as a percussion player, and at that time he also wrote many jazz and other compositions which have been in the Radio Archives up to the present day. In the list are also CD's in which Joe Vejvoda also collatorated as a composer of music. Josef Vejvoda's compositions A list of performance in Czech Radio Daughter: Monika Šterbáková-Vejvodová and Zuzana Vejvodová

He has collaborated with foreign soloists:
George Mraz, Tony Scott, John Surman, Lou Blackburn, Benny Bailey, Joe Newman, Ted Curson, Barre Phillips, Toots Thilemans, Dave Friedman, Scott Robinson, Sonny Costanzo, et al.

Discography
SHQ "JAZZ NOJNFABLES,"*
SHQ "R MOTUS ENDS" LP (S+H)Q+FRIENDS," LP (S+H)Q+FRIENDS," P "(S+H)Q+FRIENDS, LP "(S+H)Q+FRREINDS
JOČR (Big Band of Czech Radio) "JAZZ FROM STUDIO A" 1976
JOČR-Kamil Hála-"Dew Drop"
Soloists--Laco Deczi, Karel Růžička, Josef Vejvoda, Petr Král, Jiří Tomek
JOČR "ON THE SONNY`S SIDE OF THE STREET"--SONNY CONSTANZO 1979
JOČR Sonny Constanzo, "PROMISES TO KEEP" 1994
Laco Deczi "JAZZ CELULLA" 1997
Laco Deczi Jazz Cellula "FIRE TO DESTRUCTIVE FIRE" 1976
Karel Růžička+9
Emil Viklický* Quartet+Joe Newman "MIDGEST" 1988
Emil Viklický Quartet "ROUND MIDNIGHT" 1992
Emil Viklický Quartet+Scott Robinson "MAGIC EYE" 1992
Emil Viklický Quartet+Harald Grundhus "BOHEMIAN NIGHTS" 1993
Emil Viklický Quartet+Zuzana Lapčíková and Jiří Pavlica, "IT`S RAINING" 1994
Jiří Stivín "INSPIRATION WITH FOLKLORE" 1991
JOČR-Kamil Hála-"Dew Drop"
soloist - Laco Deczi, Karel Růzicka, Josef Vejvoda,Petr Král, Jiří Tomek
Josef Vejvoda „WALKIN & TALKIN – 1995
Josef Vejvoda & Benny Bailey „A Meeting To Build A Dream On“ 2001
Josef Vejvoda Trio „ONE MINUTE DANCE“

Drummer Josef Vejvoda founded his trio in 1998, and its members are musicians approximately a quarter of a century younger: pianist Kryštof Marek, bass player Ondřej Štajnochr.

Josef Vejvoda is bound up with a hundred-and-fifty-year musical family tradition. In 1992, he revived "VEJVODA`S BAND." In 1995 he founded the SALON ORCHESTRA. With both orchestras he has performed on television, at concerts, and made recordings. In 1999, he founded the Publishing Company. In 2001 he founded the "AVJ" Agency.

He moderates* on Czech Radio 2 at the Prague Station, always "Play for us, Trumpets." As a Guest Director he goes throughout the Czech lands and abroad, directing his father's compositions and his own, arrahging seminars aobut his father's most famous song, "Beer Barrel Polka."

On 21 March 2002, Josef Vejvoda was given an experience totally unique: on the day of the 100th anniversary of his father Jaromír`s birthday at Carnegie Hall in New York, Josef directed his father`s world-famous polka "Škoda lásky" (Roll Out the Barrel) at the performance of the Castle Guard and Police Band of the Czech Republic.