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Lajos Dudas: Return to the Future
ByOf the ten selections presented, a single one, Jerome Kern's "All the Things You Are," represents traditional jazz standards. Not that Dudas' treatment is all that traditional. Dudas' method of clarinet playing can be related to the deconstructive piano approach of Martial Solal. The two men like to tinker with musical atoms, and sometime, subatomic particles. Dudas' expanse includes a clarinet quartet performance of his "Miniaturen" bit of fun with alto saxophonist Sebastian Buchholz and vocalist Yildiz Ibrahiova on the quirky with hiccups "Real Bebop."
"Convergence" is a collective free improvisation shared with bassist Elmar Guantes and pianist Hubert Bergmann. It is the most contemporary of the performances captured at a Uberlingen/Lake Constanze Concert in 2013. It is the closest approximation of the 1960s Guiffre trios, save for the modern approach of Dudas to say more with less. Pithy and intelligent, Dudas has spent the last 30 years distilling a musical thought to its bare essence...with much success.
Track Listing
Miniaturen; Echos; Changes of Time; Night Fall; Real Bebop; Walk in the City; Ordinary Memory; Convergence; All the Things You Are; Eleven and Hal Bar Blues.
Personnel
Lajos Dudas
clarinetLajos Dudas: clarinet; Dieter Kuhr: clarinet (1); Theo Jorgensmann: alto clarinet (1); Eckard Koltermann: bass clarinet (1); Tommy Vig: vibraphone (2). Vitold Rek: bass (3); Wladimir Tarasov: drums (3); Hans Sparla: trombone(3) ; Harvey Wainapel: alto saxophone (3); Tom van der Geld: vibraphone (4); Ali Haurand: bass (4); Kurt Billiker: drums (4,9); Sebastian Buchholz: alto saxophone (5); Yildiz Ibrahiova: vocals (5); Balazs Berkes: bass (6); Hubert Bergmann: piano (7); Elmar Guantes: bass (8); Leonard Jones: bass (9); Jochen Buttner: percussion (9); Philipp van Endert: guitar (9); Teodossi Stoykov: bass (10); Marta Szirmay: vocals (10).
Album information
Title: Return to the Future | Year Released: 2018 | Record Label: JazzSick Records