István Regős
István Regős (* 1947 in Budapest ; † March 23, 2012 ) was a Hungarian jazz pianist , jazz saxophonist , composer and arranger , who also worked as a university teacher .
Life
Regős was taught classical music from the age of five to fourteen. After that, however, he was more interested in beat music . In the early 1970s he trained as a student of János Gonda in the jazz department at the Béla Bartók Music Academy.
Shortly after graduating, he began teaching himself. He worked at the Franz Liszt Music Academy in Budapest for almost 40 years until the end of his life as a university teacher for piano , jazz history , music theory , solmisation and combo playing . Since 1989 he has also taught piano at the Gyula Erkel Music School in Újpest and has worked at the Et and Music School in Budapest.
In addition to his teaching activities, he worked as a musician in various formations from duo to big band . In 1973 he founded his first trio, which three years later expanded to become the Regős Quartet. The other members of the quartet were the bassist Gábor Becze, the drummer István Baló and the saxophonist László Dés , who was later replaced by Mihály Dresch . In 1980 he composed seven works for big band that were performed by the Budapest Jazz Orchestra . Influenced by the music of John Coltrane , Regős began to play the tenor saxophone . From 1990 to 2000 he devoted himself almost exclusively to this instrument. He arranged the album A Love Supreme by John Coltrane for big band and performed it with the In Memoriam John Coltrane Big Band, which he directed . He later returned to the piano, from 2003 he played with the bassist Tibor Csuhaj Barna and the drummer Tamás Berdisz again with his own trio. With this he presented his album Utazas Faremidóba in 2005 in the Marble Hall of the Hungarian Radio ; the title was inspired by a novel by the Hungarian writer Frigyes Karinthy . Regős has played with numerous well-known Hungarian musicians, has been heard at many jazz festivals and has worked with foreign musicians such as Herbie Mann and Chris Potter .
His compositions and his piano playing were shaped by modern jazz , avant-garde elements and the folk music of Hungary.
Discographic notes
- István Regős Quartet: Verbunkos , Pannon Jazz 1997
- István Regős Trio: Utazas Faremidóba , 2005
- István Gyárfás Trio: Old Amsterdam , 2006
- Regős, Gyárfás, Grencsó , Nesztor, Jeszenszky: Együttműködés , 2013
Web links
- Biography at BMC (Hungarian)
- Regős István - Zeneszerző ( Memento from February 12, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) at fidelio.hu (Hungarian)
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Regős, István |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Hungarian jazz pianist, jazz saxophonist, composer, arranger and university lecturer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1947 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Budapest |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 23, 2012 |