Ferenc Németh (musician)
Ferenc Németh (born May 20, 1976 in Keszthely ) is a Hungarian jazz musician ( drums , composition ) of modern jazz .
Live and act
Németh, who comes from a family of musicians, was promoted at a young age. His father gave him his first drum lessons. At the age of fourteen he attended the Richter-János Conservatory in Győr to study classical percussion . At the age of eighteen he moved to Budapest, where he attended the Franz Liszt Music Academy and began to play in various musical styles. In 1996 he recorded his debut album Ferenc Nemeth, Vol. 1 . He studied at Berklee College of Music and at the New England Conservatory in Boston and from 2001 at the Thelonius Monk Institute of Jazz in Los Angeles. Since then he has worked with musicians such as Herbie Hancock , Wayne Shorter , Terence Blanchard , Billy Childs , Bob Sheppard , Dave Carpenter , John Clayton , Jimmy Heath , Javier Vercher and the Henry Mancini Orchestra .
Since 2003, Németh lived in New York and started with GilFeMa , a trio with Lionel Loueke and Massimo Biolcati ; In 2004 the album of the same name was released (ObliqSound). He also founded his own label Dreamer's Collective Records . In 2007 he released the album Night Songs with original compositions, on which John Patitucci , Chris Cheek , Lionel Loueke, Aaron Parks and Mark Turner had collaborated. In the field of jazz, he was involved in 24 recording sessions between 1986 and 2018, according to Tom Lord . Currently (2019) Németh leads a trio with Myron Walden (tenor saxophone) and Leo Genovese (piano).
Discographic notes
- Gilfema + 2 (ObliqSound, 2008), with Anat Cohen , John Ellis , Lionel Loueke, Massimo Biolcati
- Triumph (2010), with Richard Nant, Maria Noel Luzardo, Juampi Di Leone, Carlos Michelini, Martin Pantyrer, Joshua Redman , Kenny Werner , Lionel Loueke, Barbara Togander
- Ferenc Nemeth & Attila László : Bridges of Souls (2013), with Russell Ferrante , Jimmy Haslip , Charlie Horvath, Lara Bello (vcl)
Web links
- Web presence
- Ferenc Németh at Allmusic (English)
- Ferenc Németh at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Ferenc Németh. In: All About Jazz . Retrieved August 30, 2019 .
- ↑ Ferenc Németh. Smalls, August 1, 2019, accessed August 24, 2019 .
- ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed August 1, 2019)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Németh, Ferenc |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Hungarian jazz musician (drums, composition) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 20, 1976 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Keszthely |