Attila Garay

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Attila Garay (born December 2, 1931 in Orosháza ; † April 25, 2013 ) was a Hungarian jazz pianist .

Garay played in 1955 for Gábor Szabó , with whom he also had television appearances in the 1980s. In 1957 the Down Beat mentioned him . At the end of the 1950s he played in Budapest with his own quartet, which also included bassist Aladár Pege . In the early 1960s he led his own trio, with which he also recorded his own compositions such as Kánon for Qualiton . He also recorded in various trio formations under his own name for Supraphon , in addition to well-known jazz standards such as George Gershwin's Summertime or Irving Berlin's Blue Skies, as well as his own compositions such as Extra Girl . During this time he performed at various festivals in Europe. a. at the Jazz Jamboree in Warsaw (1962), in Sweden (1963), Prague (1964) and at Jazz Ost-West in Nuremberg (1966). In 1971 he played with Aladár Pege and Imre Kőszegi , in the 1980s in the Deák Big Band, and in 1992 with Ferenc Gayer and János Weszely. Tom Lord counts three recording sessions Garay participated in between 1968 and 1980.

Discographic notes

  • Plays his Jazz Favorites (Supraphon), with Jan Arnet and Péter Scholz (b), Vladimir Žižka and János Szudy, (dr)
  • Garay Együttes Modern Jazz II. (Qualiton)
  • Modern Jazz Anthology 7 - 1968 (Qualiton)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ obituary (Hungarian)
  2. ↑ Pulzus (Hungarian television 1981)
  3. ↑ "Three Hungarian pianists, Attila Garay, Ivan Zagon, and Tibor Gyimesi, are derivative, but creative, jazzmen." Zit. Down Beat, Volume 24, 1957
  4. ^ Bert Noglik : Jazzwerkstatt International. Verlag Neue Musik 1981, Rowohlt Taschenbuch, Reinbek 1983, ISBN 3-499-17791-9 . P. 216f.
  5. ↑ Tom Lord The Jazz Discography (online, accessed December 15, 2013)
personal data
SURNAME Garay, Attila
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH December 2, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Orosháza
DATE OF DEATH April 25, 2013