Aladar Pege is generally known as "the Paganini of the Contrabass". He was born in Hungary, 1939 and started playing his instrument at the age of 14. After completing his studies at the Bela Bartok Conservatory, he was admitted to the Franz List Classical Academy, where he obtained his diploma as classical bassist, with distinction, in 1969.
The career of Mr. Pege, one of the most brilliant musicians of our time, started at the 1963 Jazz Festival in Bled, Yugoslavia.
In 1970, the Pege Quartet took the Jury's Second Prize and the International Press Prize at the fourth Montreux International Jazz Festival. He stole the show at the Jazz Jatra '80 at Bombay's Rang Bhavan, and Sue Mingus, moved to tears, announced she would present one of her late husband's contrabasses to Pege! Since 1978, Mr. Aladar Pege has been professor at the contrabass department of the Budapest "Franz List Academy of Music". Mr. Aladar Pege is a brilliant performer of both, classical and jazz music.
Aladar Pege's latest triumphs were his appearance with Herbie Hancock, Tony Williams and Wynton Marsalis at the Cool Jazz Festival New York in 1982 and the first place in the 1981, "Down Beat Critics Poll", in the category TDWR.
(Rainer Rygalyk - Jazz Live Magazine Austria)
10 Tracks. Tracks 1-5 recorded January 1982 at Soundborn Studios Vienna by Gerhard Wessely.
Tracks 6-10 recorded Digital-Live at Miles Smiles, Vienna, by Christian Sodl.
All arrangements by Aladar Pege.