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JÜ: JÜ meets Møster
by Claudio Bonomi
Alla RareNoise Records non si fanno mancare nulla, nemmeno la presenza di un combo ungherese con tanto di sassofonista scandinavo al seguito, norvegese per la precisione. Stiamo parlando degli JÜ, trio guidato dal chitarrista hendrixiano Ádám Mészáros, accompagnati per l'occasione dal sassofono di Kjetil Møster, noto per aver collezionato già una serie di importanti collaborazioni con ...
Szandra Szoke Quintet: Memory Palace
by Bruce Lindsay
Memory Palace is the hugely enjoyable debut recording from the Szandra Szoke Quintet, a Hungarian group led by a young vocalist and writer with a talent for both composition and performance. Szoke and pianist Gabor Cseke co-wrote the music to all but one of the songs on Memory Palace with the singer contributing the ...
Grencsó Open Collective: Flat / Sikvidek
by Glenn Astarita
Multi-reedman Istvan Grencso is not well-known in the US, but is a major, cutting-edge jazz artist in his native Hungary. Thus, Flat / Sikvidek duly stresses his elevated artistry and significant compositional acumen. Nonetheless, the quartet's synergy cannot be undermined, as it incorporates budding jazz stylizations of various flavors into a panorama that abides by construction ...
Mihaly Borbely Quartet: Hungarian Jazz Rhapsody
by Glenn Astarita
Hungarian jazz doesn't receive same the level of attention as Western Europe and Scandinavia. Other than acclaimed jazz guitar legends, Gabor Szabo and Attila Zoller, there haven't been many household names within this idiom. Yet the BMC Records label has been a catalyst by producing gifted progressive jazz artists, such as the Dresch Quartet, and here, ...
Grencsó Open Collective: Flat
by Libero Farnè
István Grencsó, uno dei protagonisti del jazz ungherese degli ultimi trent'anni, fondatore nel 1984 dell'Open Collective, nel novembre 2012 è riuscito ad incidere questo CD grazie all'aiuto del Fondo Nazionale della Cultura Ungherese: un riconoscimento invidiabile per un musicista creativo, che vede così riconosciuta da un'istituzione ufficiale la qualità del suo lavoro. Grencsó è autore ...
Jazz Finland Festival / European Jazz Conference 2014
by Ian Patterson
Jazz Finland Festival/European Jazz Conference Hotel Crowne Plaza/Various Venues Helsinki, Finland September 18-21, 2014 When the steamship RMS Andania docked in the port of Helsinki in 1926 it unloaded more than just cargo. The American jazz group the Andania Yankees that disembarked stayed for two months and effectively kick-started jazz ...
Band of Gypsys Reincarnation: Electric Angelland
by Everett R. Davis
Jimi Hendrix is widely regarded as one of the most influential electric guitarists in the history of popular music. So it's not surprising that the Band of Gypsys Reincarnation, founded by guitarist László Halper along with an all-star cast of musicians, electrified the stage at the Palace Of Arts Budapest and recorded this amazing compilation of ...
