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Lajos Dudas was born in Budapest/Hungary and studied there at the Bela Bartok Conservatory and the Franz Liszt Academy of Music (1958-1963), laying the foundations for his successful career not only as jazz and pop/rock musician but also on the classical side (Strawinsky: Three Solopieces, Weber: Clarinet Quintet, Glazunow: Concerto for Altosax...)
He won international recognition, above all, with his successful composition URBAN BLUES at the International Jazz Competition in Monaco 1982. Joachim-Ernst Berendt writes in his THE GREAT JAZZBOOK : “Dudas is a stylist highly regarded in Europe for the tenderness and lightness of his free-tonal playing.” — “...and he can also plays the good old american blues.” CKCU-FM / Ottawa. In the 1980s he was ranked high year after year in the 'Top People Poll' the famous International Jazz Forum. After his period as a freelance musician (1963-73) Dudas has been a lecturer (School of Music in Neuss/GER) and also taught from 1975 to 1985 at the Rheinland College of Education. In addition, since 1976, after a short concentrating on classical music, he worked with well-known musicians on recordings, Radio-, TV-productions and tours : they include Albert Mangelsdorff, Karl Berger, Gerd Dudek, Tom van der Geld, Attila Zoller, Howard Johnson, Philipp van Endert, Tommy Vig, Charles Tolliver, Leonard Jones, Theo Joergensmann, Vitold Rek, etc... CREATIVE WORKS: over 65 Singles/LPs/CDs — Numerous Radio- and TV- Productions : ORF/Vienna, Bavarian Radio/Munich, West German Radio & Television/Cologne, Jazzmeeting Baden-Baden/SWR, Hungarian Radio/Budapest, Frankfurt Radio Jazz Group...
For many years he has appeared at major European festivals, such as in The North Sea Festival/Netherlands, Kato Days in Berlin, East-West Jazzfestival / Nuremberg, Toulouse in France, in Leverkusen, in Muenster, in Viersen and also in the USA, Rhiene-Mississippi-Gala / Minneapolis-Saint Paul... Between 1996 and 2006 Dudas was Artistic Director for Concert Series in Neuss/GER. He also written works for clarinet, woodwind chamber music and a Clarinet Method in 2 volumes. He is available on JazzSick Records, Pannon Jazz/Classic, Konnex Records, Double Moon/Challenge, Edition Musikat. In the series < Neusser Kuenstler im Portrait > a documentary about the jazz clarinetists was produced in 2018 by Film:Kultur https://www.facebook.com/flmkltr. GEAR : Selmer/Paris Clarinets, ESM Mouthpiece, model 'Lajos Dudas' LD 1, Vandoren/Paris reeds 2-2,5 Lajos Dudas lives in Überlingen/Lake of Constance, South-Germany.
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Lajos Dudas: Radio Days Vol. 2
by Mark Sullivan
The previous compilation Radio Days: The Music Of Lajos Dudas (JazzSick Records, 2016) was released to celebrate German-Hungarian jazz clarinetist/composer Lajos Dudas' 75th birthday. It collected performances dating from 1984 to the early 2000s: about twenty years. The new volume's coverage is both wider and deeper. The dates range from 1976 to 2017—over forty years—and the total time is about the length of three CDs. It comes on a special memory card, an unusual format well-suited to what Dudas describes ...
Continue ReadingLajos Dudas: The Lake and the Music
by Mark Sullivan
The Hungarian-born, German-resident clarinetist Lajos Dudas has a lengthy discography, and his long career was celebrated by the Vimeo video Ein Künstlerportrait. He has played classical music, and jazz from bebop to free. But, for what he says is his final album, he has chosen to play fresh interpretations of jazz standards and songs from the Great American Songbook. He is joined by his longtime accompanist, guitarist Philipp Van Endert on all of the tracks (along with drummer Kurt Billker ...
Continue ReadingLajos Dudas: The Lake and the Music
by C. Michael Bailey
At 80-years old, clarinetist Lajos Dudas is dropping off the keys to the recording studio while making his way out—Dudas claims this is his last recording and, if true, he ends things on a high note at the intersection of The Great American Songbook and free jazz. Dudas' previous recording, Return to the Future (Jazzsick Records, 2018) was a jogging approach to this present, and last, The Lake and the Music, where Dudas uses 10 tried-and-true standards as his jumping ...
Continue ReadingLajos Dudas: Return to the Future
by Mark Sullivan
Hungarian/German clarinetist Lajos Dudas has had his long career celebrated by the Vimeo video Ein Künstlerportrait, along with the accompanying Munich Concert video. This album follows with a career retrospective from 1979 to 2013, focusing primarily on his original music, in a variety of settings. Dudas calls it “the ultimate summary," a “selection of notable and timeless live and studio recordings with different musicians at different places." Half of the recordings are live, and the ensembles are primarily ...
Continue ReadingLajos Dudas: Return to the Future
by C. Michael Bailey
German-Hungarian clarinetist Lajos Dudas shows little inclination in slowing things down as he turns 78 years young next birthday. He has stopped for the moment to program an informative retrospective of his lengthy career in Return to the Future, a collection of ten live performances bookended by two quartet performances in Cologne in 1979 and 2013. The music presented is all of Dudas' free variety, an intersection between Tony Scott and Jimmy Giuffre as if undated to the end of ...
Continue ReadingLajos Dudas: Ein Künstlerportrait
by Mark Sullivan
Lajos Dudas Lajos Dudas--Ein Künstlerportrait Stadt Neuss Kulturamt 2018 The German city of Neuss honors an adopted son with this three-part video project (under the auspices of the Culture Department of City Neuss (GER)). German/Hungarian clarinetist Lajos Dudas has made his home there since 1973, leaving the freelance life to teach at the Neuss School of Music. Dudas had been performing in rock and jazz, as well as a featured classical soloist. But his true ...
Continue ReadingBailey’s Bundle – El Dudas – Some Great Songs, Volumes 1 & 2
by C. Michael Bailey
Hungarian clarinetist Lajos Dudas “El Dudas" has been a reeds fixture in Europe since the early 1980s. He is equally capable of performing rock, jazz, shythm & blues, and classical music. In 1998, Dudas released a standards recording called Some Great Songs. He then took his precious time creating his Volume 2 early in 2017. Here is a consideration of them. Lajos Dudas Some Great Songs Double Moon Records 1998 Lajos Dudas likes ...
Continue ReadingJazz Musician of the Day: Lajos Dudas
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All About Jazz is celebrating Lajos Dudas' birthday today!
Lajos Dudas was born in Budapest/Hungary and studied there at the Bela Bartok Conservatory and the Franz Liszt Academy of Music (1958-1963), laying the foundations for his successful career not only as jazz and pop/rock musician but also on the classical side (Strawinsky: Three Solopieces, Weber: Clarinet Quintet, Glazunow: Concerto for Altosax). He is thus brilliant at interweaving bop nuances, folk music... Read more.
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Jazz Musician of the Day: Lajos Dudas
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Michael Ricci
All About Jazz is celebrating Lajos Dudas' birthday today!
Lajos Dudas was born in Budapest/Hungary and studied there at the Bela Bartok Conservatory and the Franz Liszt Academy of Music (1958-1963), laying the foundations for his successful career not only as jazz and pop/rock musician but also on the classical side (Strawinsky: Three Solopieces, Weber: Clarinet Quintet, Glazunow: Concerto for Altosax). He is thus brilliant at interweaving bop nuances, folk music... Read more.
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Jazz Musician of the Day: Lajos Dudas
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Michael Ricci
All About Jazz is celebrating Lajos Dudas' birthday today!
Lajos Dudas was born in Budapest/Hungary and studied there at the Bela Bartok Conservatory and the Franz Liszt Academy of Music (1958-1963), laying the foundations for his successful career not only as jazz and pop/rock musician but also on the classical side (Strawinsky: Three Solopieces, Weber: Clarinet Quintet, Glazunow: Concerto for Altosax). He is thus brilliant at interweaving bop nuances, folk music... Read more.
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Jazz Musician of the Day: Lajos Dudas
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Michael Ricci
All About Jazz is celebrating Lajos Dudas' birthday today!
Lajos Dudas was born in Budapest/Hungary and studied there at the Bela Bartok Conservatory and the Franz Liszt Academy of Music (1958-1963), laying the foundations for his successful career not only as jazz and pop/rock musician but also on the classical side (Strawinsky: Three Solopieces, Weber: Clarinet Quintet, Glazunow: Concerto for Altosax). He is thus brilliant at interweaving bop nuances, folk music... Read more.
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Jazz Musician of the Day: Lajos Dudas
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Michael Ricci
All About Jazz is celebrating Lajos Dudas' birthday today! Lajos Dudas was born in Budapest/Hungary and studied there at the Bela Bartok Conservatory and the Franz Liszt Academy of Music (1958-1963), laying the foundations for his successful career not only as jazz and pop/rock musician but also on the classical side (Strawinsky: Three Solopieces, Weber: Clarinet Quintet, Glazunow: Concerto for Altosax). He is thus brilliant at interweaving bop nuances, folk music... Read more. Place our Musician of the Day widget ...
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Jazz Musician of the Day: Lajos Dudas
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Michael Ricci
All About Jazz is celebrating Lajos Dudas' birthday today!
Lajos Dudas was born in Budapest/Hungary and studied there at the Bela Bartok Conservatory and the Franz Liszt Academy of Music (1958-1963), laying the foundations for his successful career not only as jazz and pop/rock musician but also on the classical side (Strawinsky: Three Solopieces, Weber: Clarinet Quintet, Glazunow: Concerto for Altosax). He is thus brilliant at interweaving bop nuances, folk music... Read more.
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Jazz Musician of the Day: Lajos Dudas
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Michael Ricci
All About Jazz is celebrating Lajos Dudas' birthday today!
Lajos Dudas was born in Budapest/Hungary and studied there at the Bela Bartok Conservatory and the Franz Liszt Academy of Music (1958-1963), laying the foundations for his successful career not only as jazz and pop/rock musician but also on the classical side (Strawinsky: Three Solopieces, Weber: Clarinet Quintet, Glazunow: Concerto for Altosax). He is thus brilliant at interweaving bop nuances, folk music... Read more.
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Lajos Dudas was born in Budapest/Hungary and studied there at the Bela Bartok Conservatory and the Franz Liszt Academy of Music (1958-1963), laying the foundations for his successful career not only as jazz and pop/rock musician but also on the classical side (Strawinsky: Three Solopieces, Weber: Clarinet Quintet, Glazunow: Concerto for Altosax). He is thus brilliant at interweaving bop nuances, folk music...Lajos Dudas was born in Budapest/Hungary and studied there at ...
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50 Years with Jazzclarinet: The Best of Lajos Dudas
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Sound Insights by Doug Payne
The clarinet is one of the most important instruments in the foundation of jazz, from its early progenitors Sidney Bechet, Barney Bigard, Johnny Dodds, Edmond Hall and George Lewis to such later famed instrumentalists as Ted Lewis, Don Murray, Pee Wee Russell, Peanuts Hucko, Artie Shaw and, of course, Benny Goodman. But you'd never know it today. Sure, a few folks like Buddy DeFranco, Tony Scott and Jimmy Giuffre helped keep the clarinet spirit alive in the fifties (mostly by ...
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“He is sensitiv, inventiv and can really Swing” — CADENCE / New York
“Where Tony Scott left off, Dudas has continued, pushing the role of the clarinet in more progressive jazz further outward." — C .Michael Bailey ALL ABOUT JAZZ / USA
“Dudas is among the best contemporary jazz clarinetists” — JAZZ, THE MAGAZINE / London
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Night and Day
From: Live at Porgy & BessBy Lajos Dudas
Folksong
From: Live At Salzburger JazzherbstBy Lajos Dudas
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Seven-Sixteen
From: Chamber Music LiveBy Lajos Dudas
Un poco presto
From: 50 Years With JazzclarinetBy Lajos Dudas
All Of Me
From: NightlightBy Lajos Dudas
Blueduet
From: 50 Years With JazzclarinetBy Lajos Dudas
