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Attila László
Attila László (born 10 July 1953) is a Hungarian jazz guitarist and composer. László is one of the leaders of Hungary's second generation of jazz musicians, which includes Lakatos, Dés, Kőszegi, and Pege. He was president of the Hungarian Jazz Federation (1999–2005) and performed with Anthony Jackson, Randy Brecker, James Moody, David Friedman, Gary Willis, Bob Mintzer, Peter Erskine, Hiram Bullock, Miroslav Vitous, Ilaiyaraaja, Russell Ferrante, and Jimmy Haslip. Laszlo won the Golden Cross of Merit prize. Biography After finishing his studies at Béla Bartók Secondary School of Music he performed with prominent jazz bands in Hungary. In 1975 he founded a jazz band by the name of Kaszakő and recorded his first album with them in 1983. He worked as a musician in the studio of Magyar Rádió, Hungary's publicly funded radio broadcasting organization, from 1980 to 1988. In 1985 he joined Tony Lakatos to form his second band, Things. They performed at various events, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kaposvár
Kaposvár (; also known by alternative names) is a city with county rights in southwestern Hungary, south of Lake Balaton. It is one of the leading cities of Transdanubia, the capital of Somogy County, and the seat of the Kaposvár District and the Roman Catholic Diocese of Kaposvár. Etymology and names The name ''Kaposvár'' is derived from the Hungarian words ''kapu'' (gate) and ''vár'' (castle). Variants of the city's name include ''Ruppertsburg'' / ''Ruppertsberg'' / ''Kopisch'' ( German), ''Kapoşvar'' ( Turkish), ''Rupertgrad'' ( Slovene), and ''Kapošvar'' ( Croatian). Symbols The shield of Kaposvár features a castle with a rounded arch port surmounted by three battlements with loopholes on a hill of green grass. The flag of Kaposvár consists of the coat of arms placed over a yellow background. Geography Kaposvár is surrounded by the hills of the outer Somogy area around the Kapos river and the forests of Zselic. It lies southwest of Budapest. Historica ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tony Lakatos
Antal "Tony" Lakatos (born 13 November 1958 in Budapest) is a Hungarian Jazz saxophonist (tenor, soprano saxophone). He lives in Frankfurt, Frankfurt (Germany). Lakatos attended the Béla Bartók Conservatory in Budapest from 1975 to 1980, then moved to Germany, where he worked with Toto Blanke's band, Uwe Kropinski, Jasper van 't Hof, and Wolfgang Haffner.Wolfram Knauer, "Tony Lakatos". ''The New Grove, The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz''. 2nd edition, ed. Barry Kernfeld He has been leading his own ensembles since the late 1980s, including a group called Things; his sidemen have included JoAnne Brackeen, Terri Lynne Carrington, Al Foster, Billy Hart, and Anthony Jackson (musician), Anthony Jackson. He has also worked with Randy Brecker, Kevin Mahogany, George Mraz, the Mingus Big Band, Chris Hinze, Kirk Lightsey, Dusko Goykovich, Michael Sagmeister, Roberto Magris, Art Farmer, and Kenny Werner. References External links WebsiteInterview - 2006 (german) 1958 births Livin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1953 Births
Events January * January 6 – The Asian Socialist Conference opens in Rangoon, Burma. * January 12 – Estonian émigrés found a government-in-exile in Oslo. * January 14 ** Marshal Josip Broz Tito is chosen President of Yugoslavia. ** The CIA-sponsored Robertson Panel first meets to discuss the UFO phenomenon. * January 15 ** Georg Dertinger, foreign minister of East Germany, is arrested for spying. ** British security forces in West Germany arrest 7 members of the Naumann Circle, a clandestine Neo-Nazi organization. * January 19 – 71.1% of all television sets in the United States are tuned into '' I Love Lucy'', to watch Lucy give birth to Little Ricky, which is more people than those who tune into Dwight Eisenhower's inauguration the next day. This record is never broken. * January 24 ** Mau Mau Uprising: Rebels in Kenya kill the Ruck family (father, mother, and six-year-old son). ** Leader of East Germany Walter Ulbricht announces that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grammy Award
The Grammy Awards, stylized as GRAMMY, and often referred to as The Grammys, are awards presented by The Recording Academy of the United States to recognize outstanding achievements in music. They are regarded by many as the most prestigious and significant awards in the music industry in the United States, and thus the show is frequently called "music's biggest night". The trophy depicts a gilded gramophone, and the original idea was to call them the "Gramophone Awards". The Grammys are the first of the Big Three networks' major music awards held annually, and are considered one of the four major annual American entertainment awards with the Academy Awards (for films), the Emmy Awards (for television), and the Tony Awards (for theater). The first Grammy Awards ceremony was held on May 4, 1959, to honor the musical accomplishments of performers for the year 1958. After the 2011 ceremony, the Recording Academy overhauled many Grammy Award categories for 2012. The 67th Ann ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ferenc Nemeth (musician)
Ferenc Nemeth (born May 20, 1976 in Keszthely) is a New York based, Hungarian jazz drummer and composer. Biography Nemeth was born in Keszthely, Hungary. At 14 he left home to study classical percussion at the Richter János Conservatory in Győr. He also attended the Franz Liszt Academy of Music and received a scholarship to the Berklee College of Music in Boston. He later studied at the New England Conservatory in their graduate program. In 2001 he was accepted into the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz (the first Hungarian in the program) and studied there until 2003. Since 2003 he has been reading in New York City. He has played with musicians such as Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Christian McBride, John Patitucci, Terence Blanchard, John Abercrombie, Joshua Redman, Dave Samuels, Mark Turner, Ron McClure, Chris Cheek, Aaron Goldberg, Eli Degibri, Illayaraja. He is also the founding member of Gilfema with Lionel Loueke and Massimo Biolcati. Nemeth's ''Night Songs'' was no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tibor Tátrai
Tibor is a masculine Hungarian given name. * Originated shortened form of the medieval Hungarian name ''Tiborc''; which originates from the ancient Latin surname Tiburtius. * from Etruscan name Tibur, which means "honest man" Some notable people known by this name include: * Tibor Ág * Tibor Antalpéter * Tibor Benedek * Tibor Farkas * Tibor Feheregyhazi * Tibor Fischer * Tibor Gécsek * Tibor Hollo * Tibor Kalman * Tibor R. Machan * Tibor Mičinec * Tibor Nyilasi * Tibor Ordina * Tibor Őze Hungarian football manager * Tibor Parák * Tibor Pleiß * Tibor Polgár (1907–1993), Hungarian composer * Tibor Radó * Tibor Renyi * Tibor Selymes * Tibor Sisa Hungarian football manager * Tibor Stark * Tibor Szasz * Tibor Szele * Tibor Varga (ice hockey) * Tibor Varga (violinist) * Tibor Viniczai * Tibor Wlassics * Tibor Zsitvay See also * Ctibor (name) * ''Tibor'' is the Hungarian name for Tibru village, Cricău Commune, Alba County, Romania * TIBOR is the short name for the Tokyo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gyula Babos
Gyula Babos (June 26, 1949 in Budapest - April 12, 2018 ibid) was a Hungarian jazz guitarist. Biography Babos was a part of the bands Kex, Rákfogó and Saturnus, and won the Jazz Competition of the Hungarian Radio in 1966. Since 1977 he taught guitar at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music, where he became teacher of several generations of Hungarian guitarists. In the 1990s he gave some great concerts. He appeared in the Petofi Hall in Budapest with Victor Bailey, Terri Lyne Carrington, György Jinda and Béla Szakcsi Lakatos, and gave a concert with Frank Zappa in front of 50,000 spectators. In 1997 he founded the Babos Romani Project, with which he recorded the album ''Once upon a time… (Egyszer volt…)'' in 1998. In the same year he recorded three albums with the group Take Four (Aladár Pege, Rudolf Tomsits Rudolf Tomsits (12 May 1946 - 11 June 2003) was a Hungarian jazz musician who played the trumpet and the flugelhorn. Biography After a year in Sweden where he wor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium (Chennai)
Marina Arena, also known as Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Chennai, India. The stadium is located at Sydenhams Road in Park Town, Chennai, Park Town besides the Moore Market Complex, Chennai Central suburban railway station. It has a capacity of 40,000. In 1946, the Corporation Stadium was built in a portion of the land occupied by the People's Park, Chennai, People's Park in Central Chennai, Central Madras. The stadium hosted nine test cricket matches between 1956 and 1965. The stadium was refurbished in 1993 and was named after India's first Prime Minister of India, Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. It hosted the 1993 Nehru Cup, 1993 Nehru Cup, 1995 South Asian Games, and other international football matches in the 1990s. Currently, it is used to mostly host association football, football matches and Sport of athletics, athletic competitions, and is sometimes used for hosting functions and concerts. The stadium is used by the Tamil Nadu football team ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Madurai
Madurai ( , , ), formerly known as Madura, is a major city in the States and union territories of India, Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It is the cultural capital of Tamil Nadu and the administrative headquarters of Madurai District, which is governed by the Madurai Municipal Corporation established on 1 November 1866. As of the 2011 Census of India, 2011 census, it is the List of cities in India by population, third largest metropolis in Tamil Nadu after Chennai and Coimbatore in terms of population and 27th largest List of million-plus urban agglomerations in India, urban agglomeration in India. Located on the banks of River Vaigai, Madurai has been a major settlement for two millennia and has a documented history of more than 2500 years. It is often referred to as "Thoongatha Nagaram", meaning "the city that never sleeps". Madurai is closely associated with the Tamil language. The third Tamil Sangam, a major congregation of Tamil scholars, is said to have been held in the ci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chennai
Chennai, also known as Madras (List of renamed places in India#Tamil Nadu, its official name until 1996), is the capital city, capital and List of cities in Tamil Nadu by population, largest city of Tamil Nadu, the southernmost states and territories of India, state of India. It is located on the Coromandel Coast of the Bay of Bengal. According to the 2011 Census of India, 2011 Indian census, Chennai is the List of most populous cities in India, sixth-most-populous city in India and forms the List of million-plus urban agglomerations in India, fourth-most-populous urban agglomeration. Incorporated in 1688, the Greater Chennai Corporation is the oldest municipal corporation in India and the second oldest in the world after City of London Corporation, London. Historically, the region was part of the Chola dynasty, Chola, Pandya dynasty, Pandya, Pallava dynasty, Pallava and Vijayanagara Empire, Vijayanagara kingdoms during various eras. The coastal land which then contained th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Budapest
Budapest is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns of Hungary, most populous city of Hungary. It is the List of cities in the European Union by population within city limits, tenth-largest city in the European Union by population within city limits and the List of cities and towns on the river Danube, second-largest city on the river Danube. The estimated population of the city in 2025 is 1,782,240. This includes the city's population and surrounding suburban areas, over a land area of about . Budapest, which is both a List of cities and towns of Hungary, city and Counties of Hungary, municipality, forms the centre of the Budapest metropolitan area, which has an area of and a population of 3,019,479. It is a primate city, constituting 33% of the population of Hungary. The history of Budapest began when an early Celts, Celtic settlement transformed into the Ancient Rome, Roman town of Aquincum, the capital of Pannonia Inferior, Lower Pannonia. The Hungarian p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Film Score
A film score is original music written specifically to accompany a film. The score comprises a number of orchestral, instrumental, or choral pieces called cues, which are timed to begin and end at specific points during the film in order to enhance the dramatic narrative and the emotional impact of the scene in question. Scores are written by one or more composers under the guidance of or in collaboration with the film's director or producer and are then most often performed by an ensemble of musicians – usually including an orchestra (most likely a symphony orchestra) or band, instrumental soloists, and choir or vocalists – known as playback singers – and recorded by a sound engineer. The term is less frequently applied to music written for media such as live theatre, television and radio programs, and video games, and said music is typically referred to as either the soundtrack or incidental music. Film scores encompass an enormous variety of styles of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
