Jazz Articles about Andreas Varady

About Andreas Varady

Album Review

Peter Erskine: Vienna to Hollywood: Impressions of E.W. Korngold & Max Steiner

Read "Vienna to Hollywood: Impressions of E.W. Korngold & Max Steiner" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
February 10, 2025

From Vienna to Hollywood is versatile drummer Peter Erskine's ardent homage to the (mostly) film music of the renowned Academy Award-winning Viennese composers Erich Wolfgang Korngold and Max Steiner, who wrote some of filmdom's most memorable themes during Hollywood's Golden Age in the decades from 1930 to 1960. To transpose their film scores to the jazz genre, Erskine uses a talented group of performers from Vienna's JAM Music Lab University (where he serves as artist-in-residence), supplanted on two numbers by ...

Liner Notes

Peter Erskine & The JAM Music Lab All-Stars: Vienna to Hollywood

by Peter Erskine
January 11, 2025

Hollywood called... ...and Max Steiner was the first of this dynamic duo to answer, arriving there in 1929, initially working for the RKO Studios as an orchestrator and then as a composer. This was not his first affiliation with Hollywood, however; he functioned as Fox Studio's musical director, adding live music to silent films presented in New York theaters where he had already established himself on Broadway. The call to come west must have triggered an urge as primal as ...

Interview

Andreas Varady: Guitar Wizard On The Rise

by R.J. DeLuke
June 18, 2018

Listening to Andreas Varady play guitar, it's difficult to guess his age. Its not just the fleet fingers across the fret board, the subtle bending of notes and the dexterity. Many young players display those features. He possesses a warm tone, a mature style with free-flowing ideas that go to interesting places. His style is mature and he's a teller of stories. Mature and strong enough to impress Quincy Jones, who brought the guitarist into his management company ...

Album Review

Andreas Varady: The Quest

Read "The Quest" reviewed by Geno Thackara

by Geno Thackara
April 15, 2018

Early-career hype can be a peculiar mix of blessing and curse. Andreas Varady certainly deserves the praise he gets, and one could hardly ask for a more generous mentor and endorser than Quincy Jones ("It's not every day that you see a 15-year-old kid playing like George Benson!"). Pre-teen virtuosity and study of influences, however, inevitably have to give way to developing one's own voice. Old and new listeners alike should have no worries on that score here. With his ...