[7] In 1937, he became a member of the Society for the Protection of the Rights of Music Authors and Publishers (in Czech: Ochranný svaz autorský [OSA]).

Traxler wrote four promising jazz compositions for the band—two of which, "Full Moon´s Music" and "Noisy Serenade", were recorded for Ultraphon.

The collaboration was interrupted in January 1939, as Ježek was forced to emigrate to the United States following the Nazi invasion of Czechoslovakia.

In 1948 he returned to Urbánek; however, his new five-year contract ended prematurely because of nationalization of private property by the Czechoslovak communist régime in 1948.

[8] In 1949, a year after the communist coup d'état, Traxler composed music for the comedy play "Moje žena Penelopa" ("My Wife Penelope").

containing witty writing, verse, song texts, aphorisms, and short stories that characterized Traxler's inextinguishable creativity until the last years of his life.

In 2009, Czech musician Ondřej Havelka made a documentary film about Traxler, "Poslední Mohykán" ("The Last of the Mohicans").