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Odessa Klezmer Band

Band,
Folk

The Odessa Klezmer Band was formed in 1998 by well-known figures of Hungarian folk-, world-, jazz and rock music. They discovered the folk music of Eastern-European Jews in the course of their work, - partly while collecting folk music in the Carpathian Basin, and partly while composing music for films, theatre and dance performances. As musicians, they were stunned by the beauty of the tunes, the uniqueness of performance, and by the peculiar instrumental ornamentation, which has a characteristic atmosphere - sometimes bitter, sometimes humorous and joking, or, at times, even ironic. They were also impressed by the ability with which the Jewish village performers could transform the music motifs of the people living beside them into their world of musical images, and last but not least by the playful and sometimes meditative improvisational skill which is manifest in their performance.

Members

	Ferenc Kiss *1954
	Fekete László voc
	Ágoston Béla cl, sax *1966
	Mazura János tu, rec
	Huszár Mihály cb, acc
	Katalin Szvorák voc
	Mákó Miklós tr
	Lázár Zsigmond vn
	Babos Károly perc
	Huszár Bence tb