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Relax

This Side Up!

About Me

The Relax group is well known and much liked in Hungary for performing easily receptible, yet intelligent fusion jazz of high standard. According to the artists’ intentions, the music of Relax gives much more than merely entertainment. It somehow opens up the mind and soul of the listener and „lifts up to a higher plane of existance”.

The band’s history is divided into two periods by a ten year-long gap. The first era (1988-95) is marked by dignified prizes won in nationwide talent competitions, highly successful concerts both in Hungary and abroad, TV and radio appearances and CD recordings. After a long break, in 2005 Pál Vincze and Zoltán Németh, two leading characters of the original band revivified Relax, and by 2007 it has grown into a sextet. The new formation presented its first album „This Side Up!” in december 2007, published by Fonó Music Hall.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 3/27/2008
Band Website: relaxjazz.hu
Band Members: András Somos – flute
Gergely Bálint – alto sax, soprano sax
Dezső Straub Jr. – guitar
Pál Vincze – keyboards
Zoltán Németh – bass
György Blaskó – drums
Influences: Chick Corea,
Return To Forever,
Stanley Clarke,
Mahavishnu Orchestra,
Weather Report,
Jaco Pastorius,
Joe Zawinul,
Steps Ahead,
Mike Stern,
Pat Metheny,
John Pattitucci,
Dave Weckl,
Chick Corea Electrix Band,
Ricky Peterson,
European classical music
Sounds Like:
Record Label: Fonó Music Hall
Type of Label: Major