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European Jazz Conference 2015

Read "European Jazz Conference 2015" reviewed by Ian Patterson


European Jazz Conference Budapest Music Centre Budapest, Hungary September 24-27, 2015 In times when war and poverty are provoking large-scale migrations to Europe, the responses both individually and collectively of the European nations have raised important questions concerning responsibility, human rights, humanitarian aid and trans-national collaboration. In the light of Orwellian ...

Article: Album Review

Modern Art Orchestra: Circular

Read "Circular" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi


Fondata nel 2005 dal trombettista e arrangiatore Kornél Fekete-Kovács con l'intento di rappresentare il meglio del jazz nazionale, l'ungherese Modern Art Orchestra è una delle migliori big-band europee. Con una prospettiva aperta alla contemporaneità, il suo repertorio non è strettamente legato al jazz (uno dei suoi ultimi lavori è dedicato a Ennio Morricone) e prima di ...

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Julia Karosi: Hidden Roots

Read "Hidden Roots" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi


Le radici nascoste a cui fa riferimento il titolo si riferiscono al folklore musicale magiaro di cui questo disco è intriso. Julia Karosi è una delle migliori cantanti di jazz ungheresi e in questo terzo disco da leader interpreta un repertorio con sue composizioni e canti tradizionali ungheresi. Diplomata alla Franz Liszt ...

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JÜ: JÜ meets Møster

Read "JÜ meets Møster" reviewed 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 ...

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Szandra Szoke Quintet: Memory Palace

Read "Memory Palace" reviewed 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 ...

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Grencsó Open Collective: Flat / Sikvidek

Read "Flat / Sikvidek" reviewed 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 ...

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Mihaly Borbely Quartet: Hungarian Jazz Rhapsody

Read "Hungarian Jazz Rhapsody" reviewed 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, ...

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Grencsó Open Collective: Flat

Read "Flat" reviewed 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 ...

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Ferenc Nemeth/Attila Laszlo: Bridges Of Souls

Read "Bridges Of Souls" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky


Drummer Ferenc Nemeth's work has always been about building bridges and making connections with a diverse assortment of artists. He's connected styles and cultures through his extensive work with West African guitar phenom Lionel Loueke, supported Israeli bassist Omer Avital, Cuban pianist Elio Villafranca, and other top-shelf artists on record at different times, and built up ...

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Band of Gypsys Reincarnation: Electric Angelland

Read "Electric Angelland" reviewed 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 ...


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