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Aladar Aladar ( born October 8, 1939 in Budapest, † September 24, 2006 ) was a Hungarian bassist. He was an exceptional interpreter of the classical solo repertoire and at the same time a jazz double bassist.

Life and work

Aladar was initially self-taught, but then began with 15 years of classical training at the Béla Bartók Conservatory and the Franz Liszt Music Academy in Budapest. End of the 1950s he played with Attila Garay. Already in the 1960s he had turned to its own trio in addition to classical to jazz. In 1970 he was elected at the Montreux Jazz Festival for best soloist. In 1973 he moved to West Berlin to work stars like Dexter Gordon, Art Farmer, Benny Bailey, Albert Mangelsdorff, Walter Norris and Leo Wright. He played in the Mingus Dynasty and was the most important jazz stages traveling the world (including in 1982 with Herbie Hancock at Carnegie Hall ). Aladar ran a jazz quartet with musicians in Hungary as Gyula Csepregi, Zsolt Tamás Koloncsák and Kothencz. It also came to work with Dexter Gordon, Wynton Marsalis, Michał Urbaniak and Tony Williams and recordings with Karl Ratzer, Gábor Szabó, Lee Harper, Charly Antolini, Dorothy Donegan and Attila Zoller. In addition, Aladar was with classical repertoire on the go.

Since 1978, taught Aladar Aladar (classical) double bass professor at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest. Due to its dynamic exceedingly vital Pizzicatospiels, the for jazz unusually agile bowing technique and its harmonics, he was referred to as the Paganini of the double bass. He was arguably one of the greatest bass players in Europe and Kossuth Prize winner.