Tony Lakatos

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Antal "Tony" Lakatos (born November 13, 1958 in Budapest ) is a Hungarian jazz saxophonist ( tenor , soprano saxophone ).

Live and act

Lakatos comes from the Lakatos dynasty , a family of well-known violinists (one of his ancestors is János Bihari ), and therefore began his musical development with violin lessons . When he was seventeen he switched to the saxophone; During his studies at the Bartók Conservatory, he began to perform with his own groups. In 1979 he recorded his first record in Athens; Since 1980 he has performed in Germany, especially in Toto Blanke's band , but also with Chris Beier and Milan Svoboda . In 1993 he became a member of the hr big band , with whom he recorded a double album as a soloist around 2008 with new arrangements by Porgy and Bess . In addition to his work in the big band, he continued to perform with his own groups, including Randy Brecker , Joanne Brackeen and Dick de Graaf as co-leaders as well as George Mraz and Al Foster . He also presented the album Let's Get Lost with a few other soloists from the hr Bigband ( Heinz-Dieter Sauerborn , Axel Schlosser and Günter Bollmann ) and the rhythm section of the Mingus Big Band . The album HomeTone was created in 2012 with Schlosser, Robi Botos , Robert Hurst and Billy Drummond . He also played with Kenny Wheeler , Art Farmer , Chris Hinze , Kirk Lightsey , Joachim Kühn , Fritz Krisse , Chris Beckers , Roberto Magris and Jasper van't Hof . He also worked on recordings by Philippe Caillat , Kitty Winter , Michael Sagmeister , Özay Fecht and Dusko Goykovich . He has also been playing for the Red Hot Hottentots from Frankfurt for several years . Since 2017 he has been playing in the band Web Web with Roberto Di Gioia , Christian von Kaphengst and Peter Gall .

Lakatos has a luminous tone with compact highs and, according to Martin Kunzler , is an excellent ballad interpreter. So far (2009) he has been involved in the recording of more than 280 LPs and CDs. He is the first Hungarian musician whose records reached the Gavin Report Top Ten American jazz radio stations ("Recycling", 1993; "The News").

Tony Lakatos (2018)

Lakatos lives in Frankfurt am Main .

Criticism of discrimination against ethnic minorities in Hungary

In April 2010, Lakatos, who belongs to the ethnic and cultural minority of the Roma , complained in an interview in the German daily newspaper Die Welt that since there was a political shift to the right in Hungary, discrimination against Roma and Jews in his homeland was intensified and pointed out that this discrimination was attributable to them Times of communism was not as widespread as it is today.

literature

2017 in Frankfurt

Web links

Commons : Tony Lakatos  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Discussion ( Memento from May 12, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Jazz Podium 3/2006
  2. ↑ meeting HomeTone
  3. ↑ Uni Kassel AG Peace Research: Hungary under the grip of the right , April 13, 2010
  4. ↑ jazz musician Tony Lakatos: "Hungary blames everything on gypsies and Jews" Die Welt , April 16, 2010
personal data
SURNAME Lakatos, Tony
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lakatos, Antal
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH November 13, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Budapest