– THE YEARLY CHRONICLES –

2012, 15 March

In Memoriam:

  János Bata: Búcsú három halottunktól (Farewell to our three dead) [In: Aracs 2012/1. (March.15.)]

2012, 30 Oct.

24th Expanzió, Budapest, Vizivárosi Galéria (II. Kapás u. 55.), lectures about Szabados improvisations, Szabados’ poems recital by Németh Zsófia Nóra

  [In: Napút 2013/6., page 86]
  G. Komoróczy Emőke: Az avantgárd ezredvégi kivirágzása: expanzió (The flowering of the avant-garde at the end of the millennium: expansion] [In: Budapest : Szerző, 2012]
 G. Komoróczy Emőke.: Avantgárd kontinuitás a XX. században : A párizsi Magyar Műhely és köre (Avantgarde continuity in the XX. century: The Magyar műhely in Paris and its circle[In: Budapest : Hét Krajcár, 2016.]

2013, 16 May

Thursday 22.00-23.00
Jazz in the Marble Hall – part 142 
MR Marble Hall, 3 April 1998.
Members:
György Szabados – piano,
Róbert Benkő – bass,
István Baló – drums

  Radio recording

2013, November

  Electronic Archive ÚJ FORRÁS 2013.9 (a selection of interviews, essays and poems by György Szabados)

2014

Release of the CD: Szabad egyensúlyok (Free Balances), recorded  on 25 July, 1988 (solo) during the Debrecen Jazz Days and on 17 October, 1992 (Szabados–Dresch–Lőrinszky Trio) during the Budapest Autumn Festival in Budapest (HU)

audio info liner_notes GSA2014F

2014

Release of CD: Grencsó Open Collective feat. Rudi Mahall “Eleven Spontaneous Music Pieces” with LINER NOTES by György Szabados

liner_notes  LINER NOTES in Hungarian, English and German
  CD – Grencsó Open Collective feat. Rudi Mahall “Eleven Spontaneous Music Pieces” (2014) –  (Hunnia Records & Film Production ‎– HRCD 1403)

2014, 13 July

Inauguration of the memorial plaque on the house of György Szabados in Nagymaros (HU)

 Pictures 
movie_hu  Video of the cermony
  Emléktábla Szabados Györgynek [In: Magyar Hírlap, 2014, 8 July, page 13]

2014, 11 Oct.

 Lecture by Attila Retkes: Avantgárd és nemzeti törekvések a modern magyar jazzben – 75 éve született Szabados György during the conference Évfordulók nyomában 2014 (On the trails of anniversaries 2014)

2014, 22 Oct.

Hommage á György Szabados with concert and remembrance of the revolution of 1956 in the Hagyományok Háza in Budapest (HU)

  About the event

2014, Dec.

Launching the website: The World of György Szabados

2014 – 2017

 Mihály Ráduly starts a series of interviews about György Szabados

 2014, December: Interview with István Grencsó
  2014, December: Interview with Róbert Benkő
  2015-2016: Interview with Mihály Dresch
  2015, April: Interview with Attila Csányi
  2015, June: Interview with Gábor Turi
  2015, July: Interview with János Gonda
  2015, February: Interview with Bulcsú Bognár
  2016, April: Interview with Zoltán Bicskei
  2016, October: Interview with Béla Szakcsi Lakatos
news_hu  2016, November:  Interview with Imre Kőszegi
news_hu  2017, May: Interview with Lajos Kathy Horváth

2015 – 2018

  SZABADOS MUSIC DIRECTORY: Ferenc Bognár has created an audio compilation with additional information about ca. 160 recordings between 1964 and 2010, published on this website: The World of György Szabados

2015, 15 May

    Anthony Braxton’s words on György Szabados  

2015

Release of the CD: Derengés (Dawn) [Compositions by György Szabados] – Studio album by Grencsó Open Collective, recorded in 2015, April 9-11

audio info liner_notes Derenges_Cover_Front
    Interview with István Grencsó, Róbert Benkő and Csaba Molnár by Mihály Ráduly about the creation of the double album “Derengés” [In: JazzMa 31.05.2015]

From 2015

Different events to be a tribute to the music and spirit of György Szabados:
Adyton Christmas Concert every year in December in Budapest
‘Adyton evenings’ – sporadic concerts over the year in the Sigil Gallery in Nagymaros

  Adyton Art Foundation

2015, 24 – 29 Aug. 

First Adyton Free Music Workshop and Creative Get-together
The mission of the Foundation is to cultivate the musical and intellectual heritage of György Szabados and to support spontaneous free music in Hungary.

  Adyton Art Foundation

The workshop of one week is held every year in the last week of August in Nagymaros to render homage to the spirit of György Szabados.

 Infos about the activities in 2015

2015

Release of the CD: IKONOFONIA with the New Dimension Workshop, recorded on the 24th June 2004 during the Opera Festival in Miskolc (HU)

audio info liner_notes CD Front - Ikonofonia

2015, 12 Dec.

SZABAD – SZABADOS – SZABAD ZENE – Films, archive photos, music – all about György Szabados during the pulzArt Festival in Sepsiszentgyörgy (RO)

news_hu  About the event

2015, 16 Dec.

Book release: Szabados György: “ÍRÁSOK III. (Beszélgetések, interjúk/Conversations, interviews)” by the publishing house: B.K.L. Kiadó in Szombathely (HU)

news_hu  Information about the book ISBN-No.  978 963 7334 93 1, 296 pages

2016, 16 Jan.

  Essay by Csaba Iván: A Jazz szerepe a Mediawave fesztivál győri időszakában 1991-2009      

2016, 17 April

  Sándor Szabó remembers the Master: Visszaemlékezésem a Mesterre, Szabados Györgyre

2016

 A chapter by Márton Szegedi in the book of Yvetta Kajanová, Gertrud Pickhan and Rüdiger Ritter (Eds.): Jazz From Socialist Realism to Postmodernism – Frankfurt, Peter Lang, 2016, pp. 83–103.
Márton Szegedi: Hungarian Free Jazz: Compositional and Improvisational Structures in the Music of György Szabados, as Exemplified in “The Wedding”

 Here the German translation.

2016, July

   Hubert Bergmann’s essay “Klang eines verschwundenen Kontinuums – Zur Aktualität des Wirkens von György Szabados” (Graphic by Zoltán Bicskei)
 Hubert Bergmann: Egy letűnt kontinuum hangja – Szabados György improvizációiról (részlet) [In: Magyar Szemle, #1/2018]

2016, 21 – 27 Aug.

2nd Adyton Free Music Workshop and Creative Get-together
The mission of the Foundation is to cultivate the musical and intellectual heritage of György Szabados and to support spontaneous free music in Hungary.

  Adyton Art Foundation

The workshop of one week is held every year in the last week of August in Nagymaros to render homage to the spirit of György Szabados.

 Infos about the activities in year 2016 

2017, Jan.

PDF Download  PDF Download  PDF Download  Interview by Gábor Turi about the website The World of György Szabados  with the webmaster Rudolf Kraus /Interview zur Webseite The World of György Szabados – Gábor Turi spricht mit Rudolf Kraus, Webmaster 

2017, 21 – 26 Aug.

3rd Adyton Free Music Workshop and Creative Get-together
The mission of the Foundation is to cultivate the musical and intellectual heritage of György Szabados and to support spontaneous free music in Hungary.

  Adyton Art Foundation

The workshop of one week is held every year in the last week of August in Nagymaros to render homage to the spirit of György Szabados.

  Infos about the activities in 2017

2017

Some of György Szabados’ compositions in the soundtrack in the film Álom hava (Month of dreams), published in 2017 as DVD

  About the film by Zoltán Bicskei “The month of dreams (Álom hava)”

2017

Zoltán Bicskei talks about the Guardians of the Carpathian Homeland with music by György Szabados– Magyarkanizsa [2017] – published 2019

  Zoltán Bicskei “A Kárpát-haza őrei (Guardians of the Carpathian homeland)”

2018

 Publishing of the book by Zoltán Bicskei: A Szív Sorsa – A jazz és mi

 Article by Gábor Turi about the book

2018, 21   – 26 Aug.

4th Adyton Free Music Workshop and Creative Get-together
The mission of the Foundation is to cultivate the musical and intellectual heritage of György Szabados and to support spontaneous free music in Hungary.

  Adyton Art Foundation

The workshop of one week is held every year in the last week of August in Nagymaros to render homage to the spirit of György Szabados.

  Infos about the activities in 2018

2018

 Presentation of the book “The History of European Jazz – The Music, Musicians and Audience in Context”. The book contains an article written by Gábor Turi: Hungary – The Road to Independence – discussing György Szabados’ role in this subject.

2019

Some of György Szabados’ compositions in the soundtrack in the film: Láttam (I saw), published online in 2021

  Zoltán Bicskei “Láttam (I saw)”
  Gelencsér Gábor speaks about Láttam on the occasion of the film online premier 30th April 2021

2019, 14 July

Expanzió XXXI.+1, remembering to György Szabados at Mykolárium (Vámosmikola, Huszár utca 39/A)

  More information

2019, 15 July

 Publishing of John Gray’s book, which includes items about György Szabados. Creative Improvised Music: An International Bibliography of the Jazz Avant-Garde, 1959–Present (Black Music Reference Series; v. 9) (656 p., cloth). ISBN: 9780984413485 published by the African Diaspora Press

  More information

2019, 20 – 25 Aug.

5th Adyton Free Music Workshop and Creative Get-together, Nagymaros (HU)
The mission of the Foundation is to cultivate the musical and intellectual heritage of György Szabados and to support spontaneous free music in Hungary.

  Adyton Art Foundation

The workshop of one week is held every year in the last week of August in Nagymaros to render homage to the spirit of György Szabados.

  Infos about the activities in 2019
  Nagymaros, 22 August 16:30, Ferenc Bognár’s lecture: Szabados music construction – listening to music together (Szabados zenei építkezése – közös zenehallgatás)

2019, Nov.

  Publishing of the book with the title: SZABADOS – treating the lifework of the composer. Publisher: the Hungarian Art Academy 

  More information

2019, 21. Nov.

SZABADOS GYÖRGY NAP (GYÖRGY SZABADOS DAY), Budapest. Organised by the Hungarian Academy of Arts, the publishing house MMA Kiadó Kft., Regional Creative Atelier, Kanzija

  More information
  Videodocumentation about György Szabados Day

2019, 21. Nov.

SZABADOS GYÖRGY NAP (GYÖRGY SZABADOS DAY), Budapest, Pesti Vigadó,  Festival Hall:   

  “…csak az ének” – In memoriam György Szabados, portrait film about György Szabados, 2019 – The film was produced by KREA TV on behalf of MMA

2020

Release of the CD: TENGRI – Mindenség (Deified sky) / Improvizációk népdalokra (Improvisations to folk songs), recorded on the 15 February 1997 in the Fonó Music Hall, Budapest (HU)
Musicians:
György Szabados (piano)
Éva Kanalas (vocal)

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2020, Feb.

  Ferenc Bognár’s essay: Once again: did Szabados play jazz? (Még egyszer arról, hogy jazzt játszott-e Szabados?) 

2020, May

   ICHLOSE SEUFZER (Én-telen sóhajtások): Bert Noglik about György Szabados [In: Jazz Podium 5-6/2020]

2020

 Péter Ajtai: Szabados György és az ókori Kína zenefilozófiája (György Szabados and the Philosophy of Music of Ancient China) & Adalékok Szabados és a kínai zenefilozófia kapcsolatához (Additives to the relationship between Szabados and Chinese music philosophy) [In: www.parlando.hu, 2020-6.]

2021, 3 May

 Lecture by Máté Pozsár about György Szabados [The Hungarian Academy of Arts, Budapest]

  Máté Pozsár (piano)
  The Hungarian Academy of Arts launches a series of spring programs

2021, 11 June

Fonó Budai Zeneház, Budapest: TRIBUTE TO GYÖRGY SZABADOS

 Video excerpt from the concert
  More information
  Róbert Maloschik: Exclusive interview with Geröly Tamás, the organizator of Szabados memory evening at Fonó [In: JazzMa, 4 June, 2021]

  Report about the memory evening at Fonó – Géza Barcsik: Szabados’ free music freely [In: JazzMa, 13 June, 2021]
  Report about the memory evening at Fonó – Gábor Turi:  Szabados György – after 10 years [In: Magyar Jazz, 18 June, 2021]