Tommy Vig

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Tommy Vig

Tommy Vig (* 14. July 1938 ) is a Hungarian musicians of modern jazz ( vibraphone , percussion worked, composition) of the fifty years in the United States.

Live and act

Vig was considered a musical prodigy and gave concerts with his father, the clarinetist György Vig, from an early age. In 1947, at the age of nine, he was the winner of the MGM jazz competition in Budapest as a drummer . He then made recordings in Budapest with Chappys Mopex Big Band (on the Hungarian Mesterhang label) and in Vienna with Ernst Landl and the Hot Club Vienna (on Elite Special ). He studied at the Bartók Conservatory in Budapest. After the Hungarian uprising was put down , he fled to Vienna in 1956, where he played with Fatty George and Joe Zawinul . After moving to the United States, he studied composition at the Juilliard School of Music . He worked with Bill Evans , Duke Jordan , Peter Ind, and Mat Mathews . In 1968 he took part in the Berkeley Jazz Festival with Miles Davis and Gil Evans' band . He then settled in Las Vegas , where he performed with Frank Sinatra , Sammy Davis Jr. , Tony Curtis , Diana Ross, and the Carpenters . In 1971 the Hungarian radio broadcast a concert with Béla Szakcsi Lakatos, Aladár Pege and Imre Kőszegi , which was published in the USA on the Mortney label.

Then he went to Los Angeles , where he worked in the studios as a musician and composer. He wrote the score for the films Nightmare Circus and Texas Lightning (1981). As a percussionist he took part in the recording of Quincy Jones' soundtrack for Roots . He also collaborated with Henry Mancini and Don Ellis . In 1984 he directed the Olympic Jazz Festival in Los Angeles during the Olympic Games . He also organized the annual Las Vegas Caesars Palace Jazz Festival . With Lajos Dudas he performed at the Münster Jazz Festival in 1986 (album Mistral ); another tour followed in 2006. He also recorded with the hr jazz ensemble and with Martin Breinschmid .

He was the Vice President of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers for ten years . Since 2006 Vig has been living in Hungary again with his wife Mia.

Prizes and awards

In 1994 he received the “Hungarian Grammy” (eMeRton Prize) from the state radio in Budapest. In 2006 he was awarded the first prize for musical arrangements by the Hungarian Jazz Federation. In 2011 he received the gold medal from the Hungarian President.

Works

Discographic notes

  • The Tommy Vig Orchestra 2012 Featuring David Murray - Klasszikus Jazz Records (2011)
  • ÜssDob - Tom-Tom Records (2008)
  • Now and Then - Pannon Jazz (1947-2003)
  • Tommy Vig 1978 - Dobre Records # 1015 (1978)
  • Somebody Loves Me - Dobre Records # 1005 (1976)
  • Tommy Vig in Budapest - Mortney Records # 71425 (1972)
  • Just for the Record - Private Pressing (1971)
  • The Sound of the Seventies - Milestone Records # 9007 (1968)
  • Encounter with Time aka Space Race - Discovery Records # 70925 DS-780 (1967)
  • The Tommy Vig Orchestra - Take V Records (1964)

Compositions (selection)

  • Concerto for Clarinet, Vibraharp and Orchestra
  • Concerto for Vibraharp and Orchestra
  • Concerto for Timpani and Orchestra
  • Concerto for Tenor Saxophone and Orchestra
  • Four Pieces for Neophonic Orchestra
  • Collage for Four Clarinetists
  • A clarinetist and a harpist
  • Budapest 1956 (Concerto for jazz drums and orchestra)

Compositions for film and television

  • 1983: Sweet Sixteen
  • 1982: They Call Me Bruce?
  • 1982: The Kid with the Broken Halo (TV movie)
  • 1981: Texas Lightning
  • 1981: Ruckus
  • 1979: Starsky & Hutch (TV series)
  • 1975–1976: Doctors' Hospital (TV series)
  • 1975: Forced Entry
  • 1974: Nightmare Circus (or The Barn of the Naked Dead or Terror Circus )
  • 1970–1980: This Is the Life (TV series)

Lexical entries

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ His uncle was the jazz and cabaret singer Miklós Vig Magyar Jazzkutatási Társaság
  2. ↑ He is listed there as "Tommy, the youngest trick drummer in the world"; Hans Koller was also involved in the recordings .
  3. ↑ Billboard Review (October 23, 1965)
  4. ^ "Birds of a Feather"
personal data
SURNAME Vig, Tommy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH July 14, 1938