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Bálint Hrecska

Electric Bass Player and Composer

About Me


Bálint Hrecska was born in Budapest, on 12 August, 1981. Music had interested him from a very early age and so, his parents enrolled him to a musical primary and middle school where he met up with his first and really important impacts.After middle school came a few years of side tracking from these studies, but his interest towards music stayed constant, more over grew a great deal. In 2000, just before his high school graduation, he got his very first bass guitar.At this time he was mostly into the progressive rock groups of the 70’s, but he soon came to meet Jaco Pastorius’ works – so, his first band in his life - called EBI -, which he had formed with friends Egon Kemény (guitar) and István Szórádi (drums) had already a strong tending towards fusion music. This band hadn’t lasted long, but this short time was already enough for his first compositions to be born.In 2004 he had won admission to the Köbányai Zenei Stúdió’s (Music Studio of Köbánya, Budapest) bass guitar faculty, where Viktor Hárs, Egon Póka, later Béla Lattmann became his teachers. He finished in 2007, when right after he won admission to the 4. year, which would give him a higher level qualification.He formed his next band, the Howdy!Quartet in 2005, where drummer Tamás Németh and himself jointly tended the group head/music composing tasks. EarRadiance, his now existing power-trio which plays Tamás’ and his very own compositions was born from this former formation.In the same year he joined Tettamanti Téma, quartet of Tamás Tettamanti (trumpeter). With this group he had played in many foreign places, such as Tunnel Vienna Live – Austria; EuropaFEST – Bucharest (the group reached a semifinalist placing at the jazz competition), and in 2007 they have also been members of the Tornalja Jazz Festival in Slovakia.He was a founder of Anna Eszter Maitinsky’s first group, the Jazz Mappers, wich formation gave birth to the now existing MAE Quintet.Since 2007 he is a member of FredEszter Quartet, and also takes part in many intermittent formations, such as Madács Quartet – which plays regularly at Gastroblues Festival Paks since 2006 -, Steve Black Band, Muzej Trio, GodShot or the Koszi Janka Quartet.Through the years he has played on the side of great artists such as Gábor Winand (vocal, saxophone), Jimmy Weinstein (drums), Lilli Santon (vocal), Alex Harding (baritone saxophone), István Fekete (trumpet, saxophone, vocal), Gábor Szalay (guitar), Ferenc Muck (saxophone), Grego (piano) and Gyula Horváth (violin).


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Member Since: 2/3/2006
Band Members:


EarRadiance: Tamás "Némci" Németh - drums / Oliver Petkovic - guitar / Bálint Hrecska - bass;- MAE Quintet: Anna Eszter Maitinsky - vocal / István Fekete, Jr. - guitar / Tamás Tettamanti - trumpet, flugelhorn / Tamás "Némci" Németh - drums / Bálint Hrecska - bass;- Tettamanti Téma: Tamás Tettamanti - trumpet, flugelhorn / Dávid Ülkei - alto & tenor saxophones / Dimitri Radukov - piano, synth / Dániel Molnár - drums / Bálint Hrecska - bass;- Muzej Trio: Tamás Szabó - piano, keyboards / Tamás "Némci" Németh - drums / Bálint Hrecska - bass;- GodShot: István Fekete, Jr. - lead vocal, guitar / András Fodor - guitar, vocals / Tamás Szabó - keyboards / Tamás "Némci" Németh - drums, vocals / Bálint Hrecska - bass;- FredEszter Quartet: Eszter Kovács - vocal / Tamás Cselei - guitar / László Magyar - piano / Bálint Hrecska - bass
Influences: Jaco Pastorius, Gary Willis, Tribal Tech, Slaughterhouse 3, Steve Reich, Carles Benavent, Scott Henderson, Scott Kinsey, Kirk Covington, Attila László, Alex Harding, Matt Garrison, Weather Report, John McLaughlin, Franc O’Shea, Béla Bartók, Marcus Miller Band, VitalTechTones, Llibert Fortuny, AKA Moon, Pat Metheny, John Scofield, Erik Truffaz, Medeski Martin & Wood, Victor Bailey, Dennis Chambers, Antonio Sanchez, Richard Bona, Peter Erskine, Miles Davis, Gábor Winand, Gábor Gadó, European Mantra, Kaltenecker Trio, Budapest Jazz Orchestra, Peter Papesch, Gergo Borlai, Babos Project Romani, Joni Mitchell, Bobby McFerrin, Joe Zawinul, Chick Corea, Dominique Di Piazza, Igor Stravinsky, Bireli Lagrene, Adam Nitti, Adam Deitch, Alain Caron, Yves Carbonne, Erik Satie, Brian Bromberg, Herbie Hancock, Miroslav Vitous, Jan Garbarek, Keith Jarrett, Black Sabbath (original lineup), Djabe, György Szappanos, Steve Smith, Vital Information, King Crimson, Grand Funk Railroad, Hiram Bullock, Kenwood Dennard, and don’t forget The Beatles - my first great influence; my friends: Tamás Nemeth, Tamás Szabó, András Fodor, Máté Hámori, Ákos Pásztor, István Fekete, István Fekete Jr., Tamás Tettamanti, Péter Dely, Dimitri Radukov, Dániel Molnár; JIMMY WEINSTEIN & LILLI SANTON; my instructors & teachers: Béla Lattmann, Viktor Hárs, Béla Faragó, Egon Póka, Janó Tóth; Kristóf Szabó - SKD Lutherie; M.A.E.; and many others - thank you all!
Sounds Like: Bálint Hrecska - I hope so..!
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