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Philipp van Endert

The latest releases of guitar player/composer Philipp van Endert provide further evidence of his sensitive grasp of dramatic tension. Open space and breathing are elements that come to mind when listening to his current projects (from duo, trio up to sextet). Van Endert uncovers and gives new life to the secret force fields of long-discovered melody lines with virtuosic instinct. His music is like a bird’s flight of musical fantasy across the resources of our Jazz heritage. It is not an attempt to reinvent coolness, but rather to sharpen sensitivity for the special quality of lyrical creativity

Radio Days Vol. 2

By Lajos Dudas

Label: RaRecords & Film
Released: 2022
Track listing: Soft Waves; Detour; No Dance; Back to LA; Suspicion; Salut to Benny & Lionel; Urban Blues; Mistral; Children at Play; Take 5; Fragments; Adagio; Fuga; Haddapple Beach; Tucking in; Gambler; Change of Time; Reni’s Ballad; Homage to O.P.; Bourree (BWV 996); All of Me; Blueduet; Miles; Toledo; Deep Purple.

Lajos Dudas: Radio Days Vol. 2

by Mark Sullivan
July 26, 2022

The previous compilation Radio Days: The Music Of Lajos Dudas (JazzSick Records, 2016) was released to celebrate German-Hungarian jazz clarinetist/composer Lajos Dudas' 75th birthday. It collected performances dating from 1984 to the early 2000s: about twenty years. The new volume's coverage is both wider and deeper. The dates range from 1976 to 2017—over forty years—and the ...

The Lake and the Music

By Lajos Dudas

Label: JazzSick Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: The Lady Is a Tramp; Sweet Georgia Brown; A Thousand Dreams; Gloomy Sunday; Out of Nowhere; All of Me; A Foggy Day; Filthy McNasty; St. Thomas; But I..?.

Lajos Dudas: The Lake and the Music

by Mark Sullivan
June 6, 2020

The Hungarian-born, German-resident clarinetist Lajos Dudas has a lengthy discography, and his long career was celebrated by the Vimeo video Ein Künstlerportrait. He has played classical music, and jazz from bebop to free. But, for what he says is his final album, he has chosen to play fresh interpretations of jazz standards and songs from the ...

Lajos Dudas: The Lake and the Music

by C. Michael Bailey
May 25, 2020

At 80-years old, clarinetist Lajos Dudas is dropping off the keys to the recording studio while making his way out—Dudas claims this is his last recording and, if true, he ends things on a high note at the intersection of The Great American Songbook and free jazz. Dudas' previous recording, Return to the Future (Jazzsick Records, ...

Lajos Dudas: Some Great Songs Vol. 2

by Mark Sullivan
February 6, 2017

It's been a long time since the great German-Hungarian clarinetist Lajos Dudas released the first volume of Some Great Songs (Double Moon Records, 1998). Here he is again with an especially diverse collection of material, ranging from bossa nova to modern jazz to standards. These are intimate arrangements centered around Dudas' clarinet and Philipp van Endert's ...

Lajos Dudas: Radio Days: The Music of Lajos Dudas

by Mark Sullivan
January 16, 2016

German-Hungarian jazz clarinetist/composer Lajos Dudas has been performing on the radio for a long time. This “Birthday Edition 75" collects performances dating from 1984 to the early 2000s: about twenty years. All but one track was also composed by him, so it's a good picture of his adventurous composing and playing over a good part of ...

Lajos Dudas: Live at Porgy & Bess

by Hrayr Attarian
February 12, 2013

Budapest born and Überlingen (southern Germany) based clarinetist Lajos Dudas is one of the few, contemporary virtuosos of this woodwind in the realm of jazz. His mastery over every nuance of his instrument allows him to exploit the full breadth of its musical range with delightful ease.The extent of Dudas' talents are heard on ...

Lajos Dudas Quartet: Jazz And The City

by Dan Bilawsky
June 30, 2012

Most musicians firmly plant themselves in one particular territory in the music world, but clarinetist Lajos Dudas prefers to set up camp at the border crossings, allowing for swift travel between stylistic realms. Dudas doesn't discriminate when it comes to direction, and he's made that evident through his own endeavors over the past fifty years. He ...