Hungarian clarinetist Lajos Dudas seems to continually find inspiration through altered states of musical companionship. In a three year span, Dudas released four vastly different records that mark him as a bolder-than-the-norm reed man with an unquenchable thirst for something different: He played one-on-one with pianist Hubert Bergmann on What's Up Neighbor (JazzSick, 2011), delivered a ...

Album

Live at Porgy & Bess

By Lajos Dudas

Label: JazzSick Records
Released: 2013
Track listing: Soft Waves; Reni's Ballad; Homage to O.P.; In Walked Bud; Embraceable You; Rumpelstilzchen; Maydance; Back to L.A.; Night and Day.

Album

Live At Salzburger Jazzherbst

By Lajos Dudas

Label: JazzSick Records
Released: 2013
Track listing: Bagpiper; Folksong; At Carmelo's; Soft Waves; Urban Blues; Walk In The City; All The Things You Are; Bourree; Mistral; All Of Me.

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Lajos Dudas Trio: Live at Porgy & Bess

Read "Live at Porgy & Bess" reviewed by Karl Ackermann

by Karl Ackermann
May 5, 2013

Vienna's Porgy & Bess Jazz Club is approaching its twentieth anniversary as an international--but intimate--venue for top jazz talent from Europe and beyond. It's the perfect setting for this live recording from the Lajos Dudas Trio. A Hungarian native living in Germany, clarinetist Dudas is teamed with long-time collaborator, guitarist Phillipp van Endert and bassist Leonard ...

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Lajos Dudas Trio: Live at Porgy & Bess

Read "Live at Porgy & Bess" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
February 14, 2013

Hungarian-German clarinetist Lajos Dudas has quite the résumé in Europe, with about 50 recordings to his credit. He has been around long enough to have had clarinetist Artie Shaw remark on his talent, but do not mistake his longevity with a marriage to the traditional mainstream of jazz; it is anything but. Dudas has adventurous spirit ...