Label:
Hungaroton/Pepita – SLPX 17475
Format:
Vinyl, LP, Album; Country: Hungary - Released: 1975
Style:
Free Jazz, Free Improvisation
MHV
recording; Side A: 1974, Side B: 1973, Hungary
Artwork
By [Design] – Imre Kolma
Engineer
[Recording Engineer] – Endre Radányi
Photography
– László Fejes
Producer
[Musical Producer] – Dóra Antal
Rare
Hungarian LP, Szabados Quartet - The Wedding
(Hungaroton SLPX 17475, 1975) it's first Szabados recording and
represents a truly masterwork.
A1
- Az Esküvő
A2
- Improvisatio - Zongora - Hegedű Duó (Duo For Piano And Violin)
B1
- Miracle
B2
- Szabó Irma Vallatása (The Interrogation Of Irma Szabó)
György
Szabados – piano, zither
Lajos
Horváth – violin, double bass
Sándor
Vajda – double bass
Imre
Kőszegi – drums, percussion
György
Szabados (13 July 1939 – 10 June 2011) was a Hungarian jazz pianist, and is
sometimes referred to as the "father" or "unofficial king"
of the Hungarian free jazz movement since the 1960s.
Szabados
was born in Budapest. Even though he started performing in 1962, his rise to
fame is generally considered to have started with his quintet winning the
renowned San Sebastian Jazz Festival Grand Prize in the free jazz category in
1972. His first album that was recorded with a quartet in 1975 was entitled
Wedding. Despite the abstraction of the music, the record was well received in
Hungary and abroad, thereby setting the scene for his subsequent albums.
International recognition is probably noted by including the album in The
Essential Jazz Records compiled by Max Harrison, Eric Thacker and Stuart
Nicholson (Volume 2: Modernism to Postmodernism). Even though he could not
record again until 1983, he maintained his status by establishing the Kassák
Workshop for Contemporary Music, in which a new generation of musicians
acquired a free and intuitive manner of playing jazz, with a distinct Hungarian
sound. Generally, his collaborators would make up the next generation of
Hungarian jazz, including acclaimed saxophone player Mihály Dresch. Further
international recognition followed in the 1980s, through his collaboration with
Anthony Braxton on their duo record Szabraxtondos. In Hungary, he proceeded to
form MAKUZ, or the Royal Hungarian Court Orchestra, which membership varied,
but always consisted of at least nine musicians that were committed to free,
improvised music. Subsequently, he still collaborated with Roscoe Mitchell on
their 1998 record Jelenés (Revelation) and again with Braxton and Vladimir
Tarasov this time for the live recording Triotone. He was awarded the Kossuth
Prize, the most prestigious cultural award in Hungary, in 2011 by the President
of Hungary. He died in Nagymaros on 10 June 2011.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gy%C3%B6rgy_Szabados
If
you find it, buy this album!
