Béla Szakcsi Lakatos
Béla Szakcsi Lakatos (born July 8, 1943 in Budapest ) is a Hungarian pianist and composer who initially emerged in the field of jazz .
Life
Szakcsi studied classical piano at the Bartók Conservatory in Budapest, but appeared as a jazz musician as early as the 1950s, a. a. with the guitarist Andor Kovács . In the mid-1960s he was already leading his own band, with which he made recordings for the scrapbook Anthology '67 . With the band LDL he won a Hungarian radio prize, and at the Montreux Jazz Festival he won second prize as a member of Aladár Pege's quartet .
He worked on eleven George Jinda albums and was a soloist and composer of Chieli Minucci's group Special EFX . In the mid-1980s he received a contract with the GRP Records label , where he released four of his own albums by 1994.
As a member of the Rákfogó and later Saturnus groups , Szakcsi contributed to the popularization of fusion jazz in Hungary. His preoccupation with the tradition of Hungarian gypsy music resulted in the musicals Red Caravan (premiered 1975), Once Upon a Time , Gypsy Girl and Cartwheel . The rock opera The Beast , premiered in 1989, is based on the life story of Elisabeth Báthory . His hundred-minute ballet Cristoforo was performed at the Hungarian State Opera to mark the 500th anniversary of the discovery of America .
Skakcsi recorded arrangements of Hungarian folk songs with the opera singer Ádám Horváth and the folk singer Gyöngyi Écsi , and four-handed piano pieces with the pianist György Vukán . In the 1990s and 2000s, jazz albums a. a. with Imre Kőszegi and Jackie Orszáczky ( Journey in Time , 1998) and Bob Mintzer and Peter Bernstein ( On the Way Back Home , 2001).
Since the end of the 1990s, Skakcsi has increasingly occupied himself with contemporary music, in particular the works of György Kurtág , György Ligeti , Péter Eötvös and Pierre Boulez . Since 2002 he has performed Mozart's coronation concert with various Hungarian orchestras, including the Hungarian National Philharmonic .
Skakcsi has been teaching jazz piano at the Bartók Conservatory since the early 1970s.
Music groups (selection)
Béla Szakcsi Lakatos is or was a member of the following formations:
- Aladár Pege kvartett
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- Magyar Jazz Quartet
- Rákfogó
- Saturnus
- Szakcsi Gipsy Jazz
- Szakcsi Lakatos Trio
Awards
- eMeRTon Prize, 1987
- Kossuth Prize , 2005
- Prima Primissima Prize, 2006
- Hazám Prize, 2010
Discography
- My Flower My Flower , 1988
- Skakcsi - Sa - Chi with George Jinda, 1988
- Mystic Dreams with George Jinda and Howie Morrel , 1989
- Eve of Chance , 1992
- Straight Ahead , 1994
- Virágom, virágom , 1998
- Conversation for two pianos & orchestra , 1998
- The duel I-II-III. - Vukán-Szakcsi in Göttingen , 1998
- Conversation Plus , 1999
- Fourehand , 2000
- On The Way Back Home / Útban hazafelé , 2000
- In One Breath with Lajos Kathy Horváth , 2001
- Long, Hot Summer - Songs of Pál S. Gábor with Dezso Ablakos Lakatos , Viktor Hárs , Endre Berecz , Béla Zsoldos , 2001
- Well there! with György Orbán , András Peczek Lakatos , Mónika Rostás , Csaba Rostás , 2004
- Check it out, Igor with Miklós Lukács , 2005
- 8 Trios for 4 Pianists with Róbert Szakcsi Lakatos , Béla Szakcsi Lakatos Jr. , Kálmán Oláh , Jack DeJohnette , John Patitucci , 2006
Web links
- Official website ( Hungarian , English )
- Szakcsi Lakatos Béla. port.hu, accessed July 6, 2013 (Hungarian).
- Szakcsi-Lakatos Béla. Allmusic Hungary a magyar zene adatbázisa, accessed July 6, 2013 (Hungarian).
- Béla Szakcsi Lakatos at Allmusic (English)
- Béla Lakatos Szakcsi in the Internet Movie Database (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lakatos, Béla Szakcsi |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Hungarian jazz pianist and composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 8, 1943 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Budapest |