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Images: BJO Meets Kalman Olah
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| Pianist Kálmán Oláh, 38, is one of the best arguments to prove that Hungarian jazz is unique. He is a recipient of the Liszt-prize, has been named Jazz musician of the Year by Gramofon magazine and in 2006 won the 10.000 dollar Grand Prize of the BMI Thelonious Monk International Jazz Composer’s Competition for his composition Always. For almost two decades he has fronted his exquisite Trio Midnight, his own Trio and Sextet, apart from being a steady sideman of the Attila László Band, but of recent he has been focusing on composition. Oláh has been avidly looking for ways to infuse the harmonisation and arrangement of jazz with the depth of Béla Bartók and acquainted himself with folk music processes along the way. His memorable pieces, like Lyric Song, Polymodal Blues, Last Moment, highlight his favourite moods, thoughts and his taste, while the standards he mostly prefers tell the full story: The Peacock, Stella by Starlight, Round About Midnight. A true milestone of his career is the Concerto for Orchestra, which was premiered in 2001 at a concert broadcast by Hungarian Radio with the Budapest Jazz Orchestra reinforced by some reeds typically used in a symphony orchestra. What seemed to be a natural follow-up, he was commissioned by the BJO to compose Images p. 1-2., the most outstanding work on this record. A melody line heard in the work originates from Oláh’s trio outing, called Fitting. Bartók is neither an overpowering shadow for Oláh, nor a peak that one can never reach, rather a beloved and respected composer determining his musical way of thinking and method, whose influence is fertilising the soil of jazz too. Check out the second theme of the first movement and the way it ends, to hear what rhythmic and melodic references are used and in what a subtle manner does he evoke Bartók, as Oláh did not feel the need to use direct quotes. A new realm of music has been created this way, capitalising also on the images of Debussy, as the title possibly hints. Having had a dip into the waters of the Third Stream, and into adaptations of J.S. Bach and Hungarian folk songs, composer Oláh is back to the big band jazz idiom, now able to inject the energy of hard bop into the ornate orchestration and fine melodies that contrasts with some overtone-minded chord progressions. |
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Budapest Jazz Orchestra with Kalman Olah |
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Images For Jazz Orchestra – In memoriam Bela Bartok, Part One: The Metropolis (Kalman Olah); Images For Jazz Orchestra – In memoriam Bela Bartok; Part Two: Homeland (Kalman Olah); Valley Of Megiddo (Kalman Olah); Prologue to Round About Midnight (Kalman Olah); Round About Midnight (Thelonius Monk – Cootie Williams); Last Moment (Kalman Olah) |
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