Four Free Music Pieces Grencsó Realtime Collective

• 1 First Free Music Piece 07:58
• 2 Second Free Music Piece 01:48
• 3 Third Free Music Piece 17:55
• 4 Fourth Free Music Piece 21:17
• Total Runtime 48:58

Info for Four Free Music Pieces

Experimental electronic and contemporary music, free jazz, free improvisations and ethno-jazz have all their place in the signature sound of the Grencsó Open Collective, a quartet working together for years already. Sleaziness and tension, enormous energies and mystical restraint, short etchings alternating with large-scale pieces, simplicity and virtuosity of folk songs form a whole in their dynamic and rhythmic performance.

“We strive for playing collectively. I've never been interested in writing a composition, giving the song to the band, practicing the song and then presenting it. I want everyone to be a composer. I give some idea and I insist on some things, but everyone is involved as a composer in the songs. As an equal partner, inspired by each other, we shape the music together. Lewis Jordan’s improvisations are related to poetry. We make the text part of the music. Somehow it rolls together.” István Grencsó

Lewis Jordan, alto saxophone, word, poetry, harmonica
Grencsó István, tenor saxophone, alto flute
Hans van Vliet, trumpet, trombone
Benkő Róbert, acoustic bass
Hock Ernő, bass, effect, double bass
Miklós Szilveszter, drums

Grencso Realtime Collective
This original group pursues the best traditions of free jazz enriching them with Hungarian flavours. Istvan Grencso (b. 1956) is one of the strongest personalities of the Hungarian jazz school. He had his early start in Masina Jazz Group and various formations of Mihaly Dresch and Gyorgy Szabados. In 1985, he formed Grencso Collective, which is still his main activity. Moreover, Istvan Grencso is a co-founder of an experimental electro-acoustic formation, the Noiz Orchestra. He is at ease not only with various saxophones, flute and other wind instruments, but also ethnic reeds. His music is always strongly attached to the culture and traditions of Eastern and Central Europe as well as Hungarian folklore.

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