Four String Tschaba (Remastered) Csaba Deseö

• 1 Roof Dancer 05:15
• 2 Für Kinder 06:38
• 3 Making Whoopee 03:38
• 4 Rock Talk 03:59
• 5 Reith On 04:38
• 6 Something Blue 04:16
• 7 Closed 05:09
• Total Runtime 33:33

Info for Four String Tschaba (Remastered)

East-European virtuosity and soul merges with the spirit of modern jazz. The amazing Hungarian violist-violinist Csaba Deseo was a member of the Budapest National Philharmonic (1967-99) and played with the likes of Menuhin and Rostropovich. His jazz credentials include work with John Lewis, and Jean-Luc Ponty. German Keyboardist Dieter Reith, famous for having co-composed music for the 1972 Olympics, played with Stan Getz, Toots Thielemans, etc. With its rich Eastern-oriented tapestry and tricky rhythms, Roof Dancer is a show-stopper. Für Kinder is a Bela Bartok melody that morphs into funk and fusion with Deseo digging in. Check out the tenor solo! On Makin’ Whoopee the band gets down to havin’ fun with this swinging medium-tempo delight. Rock Talk is just that, as Csaba stepping on the funky (wawa) pedal. Reith On takes a delightful excursion in ¾, while Something Blue is a gritty minor blues, and Closed is an introspective ballad.

Csaba Deseő, viola, violin
Åke Persson, trombone
Wolfgang Engstfeld, tenor and soprano saxophone
Dieter Reith, Fender Rhodes, piano, keyboards
Günter Lenz, bass
Ronnie Stephenson, drums

Recorded July 8, 1974 at MPS Studio, Villingen
Engineered by Rolf Donner
Mixed by Dieter Reith
Produced by Dietrich Schulz-Köhn

Digitally remastered

Csaba Deseo
born 1939 studied at Béla Bartók Conservatory in Budapest, got his diploma in 1961. His jazz-career started in the middle of the 1960s, beside concerts in Hungary he soon appeared at international jazz festivals in Prague, Warsaw, Berlin, Zagreb, Bled and Ljubljana. His first LP entitled “Four String Tschaba” was recorded 1974 in West Germany by MPS-BASF with German, Swedish and English musicians.

Deseo played in different formations with top Hungarian performers - Gabor Szabo, Aladar Pege, Tony Lakatos, Laszlo Gardony, Tommy Vig etc. - and also played with Jean-Luc Ponty, John Lewis, Martin Drew, Dusko Goykovic, Bosko Petrovic and many others. Between 1967-1999 he was also member of the Hungarian State Philharmonic Orchestra, with them he toured the world from Japan to the US and of course whole Europe. In the last years he is playing with the best musicians of the young generation from the Budapest jazz-scene. On the cover of his CD “Tale” he wrote: “We have recorded songs near to our hearts in the hope that they will reach all those, who in our world gone mad, still love melody, harmony and SWING.”

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