György Szabados

György Szabados ( born July 13, 1939 in Budapest, † 10 June, 2011 Nagymaros ) was a Hungarian physician and known as a composer and pianist of the Creative jazz and free improvisation music. Influenced by the folk music of Transylvania and Béla Bartók, as well as by the expression of jazz Szabados has " found an individual musical language" ( Bert Noglik ). With it began a "new flow in the Hungarian jazz. Foundations on its own tradition while opening for the innovations of the Chicago avant-garde or the Western European free jazz and the sound worlds of new music "

Life and work

Szabados received as a child piano lessons and played in the 1950s in school bands. He studied medicine, but also gave public concerts, where he improvised some cases, completely free since 1962. He practiced as a physician, but founded a jazz band next to it. In 1972 he won with his quintet the Grand Prix at the prestigious San Sebastian Jazz Festival in the area of ​​free jazz. The recordings for his first internationally very highly publicized album " Az esküvő " come from the next two years. Szabados occurred mainly in the trio ( with bassist Sandor Vajda and drummers like Antal Farago ). With more instruments, to which he invited Ernst -Ludwig Petrovsky, Hannes and Conny Bauer, he played some of his compositions. His three-movement work " Adyton " was first performed in 1981 and 1983 recorded with Antal Mihály Dresch and Lakatos. With threshing Szabados also played in a duo. Since 1982, he repeatedly played with Anthony Braxton. He also worked with Fred Van Hove, Peter Kowald, Evan Parker and Jiří Stivín and also took on with Roscoe Mitchell and Vladimir Tarasov with. He improvised continue with the he founded MAKUZ ( "Orchestra of the Hungarian royal court ").

Prizes and awards

Szabados 1983 was awarded the state Ferenc Liszt Prize. 2001, his album " Az idő múlása " in Hungary was voted " Album of the Year ". In 2001 he also received the Award of the Hungarian Gábor Szabó Arts and the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Hungarian Jazz Federation.

Disco Graphical Notes

  • Az esküvő ( The Wedding ) Hungaroton Pepita SLPX 17475; Hungarian Jazz History Vol 8 Hungaroton HCD71094 (1975 )
  • Adyton Hungaroton Krém SLPX 17724 (1983 /84)
  • With Anthony Braxton: Szabraxtondos Hungaroton Krém SLPX 17909 (1985)
  • With Roscoe Mitchell: Jelenés ( Revelation ) Fonó Records ( 1998)
  • Az idő múlása ( Time Flies ) November Music 20022 (2000)
  • With Anthony Braxton, Vladimir Tarasov: Triotone Leo 416 (2005)

Lexigraphic entries

  • Wolf Kampmann Reclams Jazz Encyclopedia, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-15-010528-5
  • Martin Kunzler: jazz lexicon. Volume 2 Reinbek 2002, ISBN 3-499-16513-9.
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